Participating Artists

Participating Artists

Bill Barrett

Bill Barrett is known primarily for his large-scale outdoor public sculptures. His sculptures of fabricated aluminum, bronze, or steel address the interplay between positive and negative space with grace, elegance and exquisite balance.

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Micajah Bienvenu

Micajah Bienvenu’s pieces evoke emotion that invite us into spaces that reflect the enormity of the natural world and the human experience in relation to it in the moment.

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Babette Bloch

Babette Bloch is a pioneer in the use of laser-cut and water jet-cut stainless steel to create figurative works of art. Her sculptures explore form and the interplay between object and light, reflect their environments, and expand the ways in which stainless steel is used in contemporary art.

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Jeffrey Breslow​

Jeffrey Breslow is a nature lover, and his inspiration unusually starts from nature; in this case stones.

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Vivien Collens

“Squirt,” is a colorful sculpture made of powder-coated aluminum. This fanciful work is one of a series of sculptures in which Collens uses welded geometric components to create fluid organic forms suggesting trees or fountains.

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Harry Gordon

Using a crane to create his granite sculptures, Harry Gordon believes that his work is not complete until it is viewed by the public. “It is as if they get their batteries charged with each person that sees them.”

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Richard Heinrich

Richard Heinrich listens to music as he works in his Tribeca studio, and the titles of his work often reflect the strong influences of Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk and others.

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Ken Hiratsuka

Ken Hiratsuka is driven by his vision of art’s capacity to transcend the differences of nations and languages and his work can now be seen in permanent public sites in both urban and natural environments in 21 countries.

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Fitzhugh Karol

Fitzhugh Karol creates abstract sculptures of wood and metal that evoke hills, valleys, steps, and portals—elements of real, imagined, and remembered landscapes. Whether monumental or intimate, each sculpture combines a playful vocabulary of geometric forms to draw and strengthen connections between people and the landscape. His large-scale outdoor sculptures both imitate and interrupt the landscape, and all his work suggests links between natural and man-made forms, inviting viewers to contemplate the ways in which humans impact the world around them. 
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Robert Koch

Robert Koch’s pieces attempt to challenge the inherent behavior of the materials, as if to capture aspects from nature such as the movements of a leaf in the wind, the swaying of reeds, or even the split second a seed begins to germinate.

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Jon Krawczyk

Jon Krawczyk

Jon Krawczyk pushes the boundaries of his medium by transforming steel and bronze into a study of the human condition. Lauded for his ability to turn metal into large scale biomorphic sculptures that can strike one as having their own ubiquitous presence.

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Patricia Lavin

Throughout the 1990s, Ms. Lavin worked on a diversity of projects designing everything from posters for music venues, theater sets, and costumes, to commercial interiors and vintage hot rod cars. Winning accolades for innovation and intellectual design approaches.

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Elaine Lorenz

Lorenz is Professor Emeritus at William Paterson University in Wayne, where she taught sculpture and ceramic sculpture.  A graduate of Marietta College in  Ohio, she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.  She worked as an artist in the point-of sales display and graphic design industries and also taught sculpture in adult education classes, art centers and museum educational programs.

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Ulla Novina

Together the stone and Ulla tell a story. Stone is star stuff and of the ages. She feels a kinship with stone. This awareness is expressed as she tries to integrate the nature of the stone with her vision of the nature of things.

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Joel Perlman

For Joel Perlman, sculpting is an adventure and each work is the record and result of an exploration of weight, danger, negative space, and monumentality.

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John Richie

John Richie’s work explores the relationship between
ancient tribal art forms and contemporary urban life.

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James Tyler

James Tyler’s unique colossal heads invite us to identify with the world’s ceramic heritages. They bring today’s faces together with pre-Columbian, South American, Native American, Asian, African, and Western influences.

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Martha Walker

Martha Walker’s metal sculptures, made from meticulously dripped molten steel, often express something deep and personal.

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Elaine Lorenz

Lorenz is Professor Emeritus at William Paterson University in Wayne, where she taught sculpture and ceramic sculpture.  A graduate of Marietta College in  Ohio, she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.  She worked as an artist in the point-of sales display and graphic design industries and also taught sculpture in adult education classes, art centers and museum educational programs.

Rejuvenation by Elaine Lorenz, a brilliantly white sculpture fashioned from fiber-reinforced cement, is now on view on Brook Road at Laurelwood Arboretum. It replaces Up and Away, a Lorenz sculpture at the same site that was recently sold.

Rejuvenation, which is also for sale, is priced at $15,000. “I revisited my earlier sculpture to recreate one that was more uplifted in spirit and in reality,” said Lorenz. “Rejuvenation has both the sense of power rising and the calmness of curving lines connecting the whole.”
Rejuvenation

               ‘Rejuvenation’
Laurelwood Arboretum Location #7

upandaway sold

               ‘Up and Away’

Up and Away by Elaine Lorenz is a brilliantly white 74” x 33” x 14” work fashioned from fiber-reinforced cement.

“In a world filled with disorder and clamor of people and machinery, I find refuge and balance by experiencing the power and beauty in the natural world,” said Lorenz.  “The creation of Up and Away involved combining organic and geometric forms to produce a lively and upbeat sculpture.  My sculptures balance mass and space, creating gradients of light, points of intersection or interior spaces.”

Lorenz’s work has been included in numerous exhibitions and sculpture sites throughout the United States.  Among them are the Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY;  The Fredonia Sculpture Project, Fredonia, NY;  Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin; Knoxville Museum, Knoxville, TN; The Hunterdon, Morris, Newark and Montclair Museums, NJ;  Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead;  and the International Sculpture Center, Washington, DC.  Her sculptures are also in private, public and corporate collections around the country.

Vivien Collens‘s work can be found at:

Upstate art weekend. 2022. Totem installation at Goshen Green Farm
Froebel’s Gifts; Blue Circuit. 2018.  18′ x 8′ x 7′ welded aluminum with auto body paint at Josephine Sculpture Park, Frankfurt, KY
With a Broad Stroke. 2018. 5′ h x 44′ x 28″. Glenlily Grounds, Newburgh, NY.
Squirt Series; 2015 – 2023. Hudson Valley, NY, Newburgh, NY, Beacon, NY, Wayne, NJ
2016 architectural intervention installation for Chris Davison Gallery exhibit at Regal Bag Factory, Newburgh, NY
Memory Structures. c, 1980. Cleveland, National City Bank Collection.
1979 exhibition of Projection Series at the Soho Center for Visual Arts.

Vivien Collens

 ‘Squirt’ Laurelwood Arboretum
Location  #14

“Squirt”, a colorful work made of powder-coated aluminum soars 10 feet in the air. The ‘Squirt’ series speaks to Collens’ interest in energy and architectural form, seeking to establish an organic relationship between the two and address human interventions in the landscape as explained by the artist.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Collens is a mid-career abstract artist whose current work feature large-scale, site-specific sculptures. Her first free-standing sculptures were displayed in 2015 in a solo exhibition, “Urban Studies and City Blocks,” at the Rockefeller Center Gallery of Gensler Architects. With an irreverent playful approach, she began developing larger sculptures focusing on urban architecture and energy. 

During a residency at Salem Art Works, Collens learned to weld and has since installed large-scale works at a number of sculpture parks, museums and private collections.

Collens earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Fine Arts at the Institute Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Her early work focused on painting and relief wall constructions.

Vivien Collens

Babette Bloch

Babette Bloch is a pioneer in the use of laser-cut and water jet-cut stainless steel to create figurative works of art. Her sculptures explore form and the interplay between object and light, reflect their environments, and expand the ways in which stainless steel is used in contemporary art.

Tulipula

               ‘Tulipula’ Laurelwood Arboretum  Location  #5

Bloch’s TULIPULA, a 78” x 53” x17” stainless steel piece featuring tulips, is cut from a single sheet of metal. It is installed at Sculpture Trail site number 5. “Babette Bloch’s masterful use of a grinder as a paintbrush makes the flowers strikingly three-dimentional,” said Scott Broadfoot, curator of A Sculpture Trail. “When seen in soft light with the sunken hollow of the riverbed behind it, the sculpture appears as if it’s glass or lucite. In the early afternoon when the sun suffuses it with warm light, TILIPULA reflects the vibrant colors of the foliage surrounding it.”

Recently, ‘EGRETS’, Bloch’s second work, a stainless-steel rendition of birds at rest and in motion, was installed at Laurelwood Arboretum. It can be seen at site #1 on the grassy knoll behind Laurel Pond. “‘Egrets’ was created as part of my Reflecting Nature Series, in celebration of the joyous lyricism of birds at rest and in movement,” Bloch said. “I used laser cutting technology and metal fabrication machinery, along with a hand-held grinder that I wield like a paintbrush to enhance form and the illusion of mass. ‘Egrets’ actively interacts with the landscape; the surface of the textured metal reflects the surrounding colors, changing with the play of daylight and dance of the clouds.”

‘Egrets’ Laurelwood Arboretum
Location  #1

Bloch’s works of art embrace her eclectic tastes, her pleasure in aesthetics, and her technical curiosity. Drawing on several traditions in American art, she creates works that touch on Modernist abstraction, the cut outs and collage found in Pop art and the long-standing practice of storytelling in art.

In cutting, shaping, burnishing, and grinding stainless steel, Bloch has developed the material’s natural properties of brightness and reflectivity while making the dense metal seem nearly weightless and ethereal.

In her larger works, Bloch collaborates with structural engineers to ensure the long-term stability of the sculptures. Works range from tabletop scale to her monumental vase series, some of which are well over 6’ tall, to her recently completed 16-foot Vitruvian Man (Enterprise Corporate Park, Shelton, CT), an interpretation in stainless steel of the iconic drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. Many of her works are created in a range of scales. All are limited editions.

Bloch’s works of art begin as highly finished drawings that are scanned and scaled to a one-to-one ratio with the forms that will be created. Computer-driven lasers or water precisely cut through stainless steel, and she then wields a hand-held grinding machine as her paintbrush, adding lyricism and dimensionality before molding the steel with industrial shaping machinery. The completed sculptures reflect the colors and topography of their environments and, in her cutout silhouettes, are compelling portals to the landscapes beyond.

She pursued both classical and modern training, including study with notable artists Deborah Butterfield and, at the celebrated art department of University of California at Davis, where she received her degree, with Wayne Thiebaud, Robert Arneson, and Manuel Neri. Bloch has received numerous awards, including those bestowed by the National Arts Club, Salmagundi Club and Museum, and the National Association of Women Artists Bloch lives in Connecticut with her husband, noted sculptor Marc Mellon. They have two children.

Babette Bloch‘s work can be found at:

Permanent Collections
Brookgreen Gardens; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC; Hudson Heritage Farm, Ganges, MI; International Hillel, Washington, DC; Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD; and numerous private collections in Europe and the U.S.

Special Exhibitions
ART IN ISOLATION
At the Century Association NYC
April 22-July 16 2021

ORCHID BRANCH
National Arts Club – Roundtable Exhibition – NYC
May 10-June 28, 2021

REFLECTION & REGENERATION
National Arts Club – Gregg Galleries, NYC
Exhibited through October 25, 2019

Flora and Fauna: Babette Bloch
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center – Brattleboro, VT

Ken Hiratsuka‘s work can be found at:

Ken Hiratsuka’s One Line Stone Garden, Hillsdale Shopping Center,  San Mateo, CA, public sculpture garden comm. by Bohannon Corporation.

“Stone. Paper. Line. Air. Water” Performance/Installation with Wen Hui & Gloria McLean at Cloud House, Huang Rui Studio, Beijing, China

One Man Show at Red Museum, Osaka, Japan, “Ken Hiratsuka: One Line Planet 2017”

Goldman Global Arts, “Human Kind” show, Wynwood Walls, Miami. FL

Wynwood Walls, Miami, FL, Three Boulders commissioned for Miami Basel “FearLess Show” 

Omachi, Nagano, Japan – permanent site work for Primitive Sense Art Fesitval in Forest of New Millenium, 6 ft x 12 ft x 15 ft. granite.

Cartagena, Columbia “Gaia of Media Luna,” site work, 3ft x 4 ft x 7 ft sandstone.

Goldman Memorial Monument, Lakeside Memorial Park, Miami, FL – 5 ft. x 12 ft. x 1 ft. Granite.

Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea, “Invisible Transfer,” College of Music campus, permanent installation, 4 ft. x 4 ft x 6 ft. granite.

Public Monument, Soho, NYC,  “TULIP 08 “ permanent installation, 110 Greene Street.

Robert Cummings Memorial Garden, Wakefield, Rhode Island, 7 granite boulders, 30’x30’, private commission

25 Bond Street, “River,” New York City.  Sponsored by Goldman Properties, Inc. Sidewalk carving, granite, 16’ x 100’.

Granite Sidewalk Carving, Elliot Street, Brattleboro, VT. 6’x6’.

Site-Specific Sculpture, Gobi Desert, Mongolia, 15‘ x 15’ granite mountain.

Varanasi, India  sand stone mountain , 5’x5’ surface of the sand stone cliff.

Shimodate, Japan, Civic Monument commissioned by city of Chikusei, 12 tons gray granite boulder installed in front of public library.

Ibiza, Pronostica Art Festival, Hillside Carving 6’x6’ft

Buyukcekmece, Istanbul, Turkey, 5 tons, 2 marble boulders, permanent public site on Sea of Marmara.

Municipal Park Freiburg, Germany, 12-ton carved granite boulder in Group Show.

Mermaid/Shark Jetty Carving, Ponce de Leon Inlet, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, permission of Army Corps of Engineers, assisted by Atlantic Center for the Arts

One Line Tower, gray granite, 40 tons, 8 meters high x1m x1m, Permanent work for Guilin Yuzi Paradise Sculpture Park, Guilin, China.

First non-Chinese artist invited to create permanent work for Huairou Sculpture Park, Beijing, China.

Kemi Museum of Art, Kemi, Finland, 8 tons black granite, 5’x5’x7′ This museum commission brought Hiratsuka to the Shaman Summer Festival where he carved 6 site-specific stones in Finland and Sweden.

Eco Summit/Global Forum, Granite 10’x15’x6′, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Permanent public monument in Flamingo Park on Guanabara Bay assisted by the City of Rio. It is the first large-scale story rock, depicting through symbols the events and significance of the International Summit on the Environment.

 Monument, Cowra, N.S.W., Australia, commissioned by the City of Cowra. 36-ton granite composed of 12 carved boulders lined up on the north-south magnetic line, located at the Cowra Japanese garden, formerly a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, now a major tourist attraction.

Granite sidewalk, 6’x8′, Prince & Broadway, NW corner, NYC One of the earliest and best known of the One Line carved sidewalk street works.

Joel Perlman‘s work can be found at:

Parish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Property Group Partners, London, NY

The Durst Organization, New York, NY

Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida

Lewis and Clark College, Godfrey, Illinois

Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut

Bates College Museum, Lewiston, Maine

Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York

Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey

Herber F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC

I.B.M. Corporation, Thornwood, New York

Los Angeles County Museum, California

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida

Martin Z. Margulies Sculpture Garden, Miami, Florida

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, Hamilton, Ohio

Rudin Management Company Inc., New York

Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York

Ursukushi-Ga-Hara Open-Air Museum, Japan

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Ulla Novina‘s work can be found at:

Schering-Plough Corporation, Madison, NJ

Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

Sculpture for Leonia, Leonia, NJ

Belskie Museum of Art and Science, Closter, NJ

New Milford Library, New Milford, NJ

Micajah Bienvenu‘s work can be found at:

Block Real Estate, Overland Park, KS

SAS Software, Cary, NC

Reser Fine Foods, Beaverton, OR

Liberty Property Trust, SC

Smart Wireless, Portland, OR

Washington Athletic Club, Seattle, WA

Ray’s Boathouse, Seattle, WA

The Callison Partnership, Seattle, WA

MacDonald’s Corporate Headquarters, Kirkland, WA

Nordstrom Corporate Headquarters, Seattle, WA 

Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Renton, WA

Yarrow Bay Grill, Kirkland, WA

Red Dot Corporation, Seattle, WA

Salty’s on Alki, Seattle, WA

Spears Plastics, Los Angeles, CA

Land Sea Air Leasing, Ketchikan, AK

Washington States Arts Commission, Art in Public Spaces Program, South Seattle College, Seattle, WA 

Thurman Street Bridge, Portland DOT, Portland, OR

Town Icon Sculpture, Town of Friday Harbor, WA

Vancouver Ave. Bridge Monument, Portland DOT, Portland, OR

Washington States Arts Commission, Art in Public Spaces Program, Deer Park High School, Deer Park, WA

Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA

Vancouver Ave. Bridge Design Team member, David Evans And Associates, Portland, OR

School of the Sacred Heart, Bellevue, WA

City of Coral Springs Arts Commission, Sculpture on Sample, Coral Springs, Florida 

Washington States Arts Commission, Art in Public Spaces Program, Richland High School, Richland, WA

City of Kirkland, Kirkland, WA

 San Juan Island Community Theater, Friday Harbor, WA

 Lambiel Museum, Orcas Island, WA

Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA

Richard Heinrich‘s work can be found at:

Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

Amarada Hess Oil Company

Pepsico, Inc.

General Electric, Inc.

Chemical Bank of New York

Fiduciary Trust Company of New York

American Express

Deloitte, Haskins, & Sells, Boston, MA

New York Public Library

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

Valley National Bank of Arizona

Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University

Hofstra University

Northrop Corporation

Best Products, Ashland, VA

Shore Sculpture Park, Skokie, IL

Nassau County Museum, Roslyn Harbor, NY

Bill Barrett‘s work can be found at:

911 Memorial  Museum, New York, NY

Albright College, Freedman Gallery, Reading, PA

Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM

Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT

Allan Houser Foundation, Permanent Collection, Santa Fe, NM

Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Eastern Michigan University Library, Ypsilanti, MI

Fine Arts Museum of Oklahoma City, OK

Goddard Visual Art Center, Ardmore, OK

Grounds for Sculpture Museum, Hamilton, NJ

Guild Hall Museum of Art, East Hampton, NY

Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM

Hope College, Music School, Holland, MI

The Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, NY

Iowa State University, Art on Campus Collection, Gerdin Building, College of Business, Ames, IA

Iowa State University, Art on Campus Model and Maquette Collection, Ames, IA

Iowa State University, Department of Music and Theater, Ames, Iowa

International Foundation Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Mitchell Wolfson New World Campus, Miami, FL

Museum of Outdoor Art, Englewood, Colorado

Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

Norfolk Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK

Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, McKnight Performing Arts Center

Purdue University, North Central, Westville, IN

Pyramid Hill, Sculpture Park and Museum, Hamilton, OH

Reading Museum, Reading, PA

Rice University, Houston, TX

Runnymede Sculpture Farm, San Francisco, CA

Santa Fe Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ

Stony Brook University, Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology

Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke Virginia

The Utsukushi-ga-Hara Open Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan

University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI

University of Michigan, School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor, MI

University of Michigan, School of Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI

University of Michigan, School of Social Work, Ann Arbor, MI

University of Montana, Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, MT

University of Nevada, Barrick Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada

University of the South, Sewanee, TN

University of Syracuse, Syracuse, NY

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

William Patterson University, Sculpture Collection, Wayne, NJ

Ann Arbor City Hall, Ruby Church Memorial, Ann Arbor,  Michigan

City of Phoenix ,  Phoenix, Arizona

Criminal Court Building ,  Hartford, Connecticut

New York City,  New Dorp High School, Staten Island, New  York

Nyack Plaza Mall,  Nyack, New York

Pennington Park, Patterson, NJ

City of Palo Alto, CA

Appaloosa Public Library, Scottsdale, AZ

James Tyler‘s work can be found at:

Brickhead TRUTH– Carriage Barn Art Center, New Canaan CT

Brickhead Human – City of Carmel Public Art, Carmel, IN 

Junejune – Haverstraw African American Heritage Park, Haverstraw NY

Gabriella – Laurelwood Arboretum, Wayne NJ

Two Brickheads – Industrial Arts, Beacon, NY

Brickhead Hominid -– Garner Arts Center, Garnerville, NY

Brickhead LOVE – Summit Park, Summit NJ

Brickhead Veritas – Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago IL

THUNDERBIRDS – Burning Man 2017, Black Rock Desert, Nevada

Brickhead Yemanja – Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Brickhead LOVE -– Nuart Sculpture Garden, Santa Fe, NM

Brickhead Orisha – Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Island, SC

Brickhead EARTH – BlackRock Desert, Nevada

CCACA 2016- Natsoulas Art center- Davis, CA

Brickhead TRUTH 2 – Garner Arts Center, Garnerville, NY

Six TRUTHs – Art Hamptons

Brickhead Conversations – Commissioned by Purdue University for Yue-Kong Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts, Lafayette, IN.

Groundwater Colossus -Commissioned by the City of Lincoln, Nebraska for new Union Plaza, Antelope Valley Greenway

Mozaic Colossus -Commissioned for new Mozaic Plaza, Minneapolis, MN

Linden Brickhead -DeHaan Sculpture Garden, Indianapolis, IN

Brickface HOPE -Commissioned for the New Mexico State Lands Commission Building, Santa Fe, NM

Brickhead TRUTH -Blue Hills Plaza, Pearl River, NY

BRICKHEAD:Please Stop -Midtown Tower, Miami FL

Brickhead EVOLUTION -Garnerville Arts and Industrial Center, Garnerville, NY

BRICKHEAD 3 -Commissioned for Davlan Park, Arts and Design District, Indianapolis, IN

BRICKHEAD 2 -Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY

BRICKHEAD: Come and Gone – Garner Art Center, Garnerville, NY

SEALSCAPE – East Machias School, East Machias ME

CODFISH – Maine Maritime Aquarium, Boothbay, ME

FACES OF EAST CAMBRIDGE – Lechmere Canal Park, Cambridge, MA

SALMON STREAM – Centroplex Tower, White Plains NY

TEN FIGURES – Davis Square Subway Station, Somerville, MA, Arts on the Line Project, Redline Line Extension, MBTA

Robert Koch‘s work can be found at:

Gracies Restaurant, Providence RI

The Twisted Tree, Asbury Park, NJ

AtlantiCare Hospital, Egg Harbor, NJ

Drug Plastics, Boyertown, PA

150 Bay Street, Jersey City, NJ

WALDO lofts, Jersey City, NJ

Union Congregational Church, Montclair,  NJ

St Columbkill’s RC Church, Boyertown, PA

Harborside Atrium, Jersey City, NJ

Harry H. Gordon‘s work can be found at:

“Tonka”, Route 32, north of New Hope, PA

“Fire Bird”, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ

“Flying Canoe”, Wildflower Park, Maplewood, NJ

“Grasshopper”, Bridge Gardens, Bridgehampton, NY

“Snaphance”, Buck County Community College, Newtown, PA

“Enki”, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

“Crossing”, Norristown SEPTA Center, Norristown, PA. Commission.

“Monk”, currently on it’s way to Josephine Sculpture Park, Frankfort, KY

“Duchess”, Kean University. Commission.

“Thoth”, Westchester University, Westchester, PA

“Lenape Gate”, Newport News, VA.

“Passage”, D&R Greenway, Princeton, NJ

“Thor’s Hammer”, Greenwich, CT.

“Green, Gray, Black”, Lincolnwood, IL. 

“Large Granite Arch”, New Hope, PA.

“Connected”, Penn State, State College, PA. 

“Flying K”, Michener Museum, Doylestown, PA. 

Jon Krawczyk‘s work can be found at:

333 Brannan Identity Sculpture, Kilroy Realty, San Francisco, CA

Percent for the Arts Public Commission, Agoura Hills, CA

Apple Inc. / LinkedIn Campus, Sunnyvale, CA

San Francisco 49ers Stadium, Santa Clara, CA

Percent for the Arts Public Commission, Mountain View, CA

303 Second Street, Kilroy Realty, San Francisco, CA

9/11 Memorial, Ground Zero, St. Peter’s Cathedral, New York, NY

Hard Rock Hotel, San Diego, CA

Trump Hotel, Las Vegas, NV

Four Seasons Hotel, Washington, DC

Four Seasons Hotel, St. Louis, MO

Four Seasons Hotel, Half Moon Bay, CA

Four Seasons Hotel, Mumbai, India

Prudential Center, New Jersey Devils Stadium, Newark, NY

Art & Public Space, Percent for the Arts, Agoura Hills, CA

Table Top Sculptures, MGM, CA

Cross, Palm Desert, CA

KPMG Warwick, New York, NY

Deloitte & Touche, New York, NY

Art Council of Brazos Valley, College Station, TX

Homme Engineering, Percent for the Arts, Palm Desert, CA

Rosenblum, Percent for the Arts, Palm Desert, CA

Dale Poe Group, Percent for the Arts, Agoura Hills, CA

Deloitte & Touche, New York, NY

The Westin Diplomat Hotel Lobby Fountain Project, Miami Beach, FL

Texas A&M, College Station, TX

MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV

Deloitte & Touche, New York, NY

Rankserve, Newbury Park, CA

San Francisco Giants’ AT&T Park, San Francisco, CA

Cheesecake Factory, Calabasas, CA

Squad, Chicago, IL

By Design, Santa Monica, CA

R/D, Torrance, CA

Lumina Gallery Gate Project, Taos, MN

Jamison Gold, Marina Del Ray, CA

McKay Mobile, Reno, NV

Widner College 175TH Anniversary, Philadelphia, PA

Martha Walker‘s work can be found at:

Studio + 80 Sculpture Grounds

The Dwight Englewood School

Zimmerli Art Museum

Anne Frank Center, USA

Boca Beach Club & Resort

Pratt Institute

Holocaust Resource Center

Fitzhugh Karol‘s work can be found at:

Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge Public Art Program, Nyack, NY.

Socrates Sculpture Park, Emerging Artist Fellowship. Long Island City, NY.

Edward F. Albee Foundation, Visiting Fellow. Montauk, NY.

Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY. Thesis Exhibition – Honors.

Fitzhugh Karol

Fitzhugh Karol (b. 1982) is a Brooklyn, New York-based sculptor whose work ranges from large scale outdoor installations to intimate tabletop adornments. Working in metal, wood and ceramic, Fitzhugh’s sculptures mix angular and organic geometries inspired by real and fabricated archaeological records, music, childhood and minimalism.

Karol sculpts in wood, metal, and clay to create artwork that causes one to reflect on man’s imprint in the landscape. Karol’s sculptures use portals, steps, and slopes – in his works – in response to their surroundings. The forms of his abstract sculptures draw on silhouettes of actual and imagined landscapes. He seeks to create playful spaces that become an inviting and unconventional way to experience art. Karol’s practice ranges from work that can be contained within a gallery setting to large-scale public sculptures that create an inviting and unconventional way to experience art.

One of his best-known works is Approach, installed at the beginning of the Mario M. Cuomo bridge path in Rockland County, New York. The sculpture utilizes steel from both the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge and its predecessor, the Tappan Zee.

Friendship, made up of five 12-foot totems by sculptor Fitzhugh Karol, is the newest Sculpture Trail installation at Laurelwood Arboretum. It stands dramatically at the grass garden, the totems were carved from pine logs sourced from forests in East Hampton, New York. The logs were laid horizontally and carved with a chainsaw. They were inspired by the simple beauties of the natural and constructed world and call to mind the silhouettes of landscapes, both real and imagined.

‘Friendship’
Location #3

John Richie

1991 BFA in Illustration, the University of the Arts, Phila., PA
1999 NJ State Council of the Arts Fellowship Grant in Crafts/Woodworking

Museum shows

● 1992. International Furniture Fair, NY, NY
● 1995. Philadelphia Furniture Show, Phila., PA
● 1996. SOFA, Miami, FL
● 1997. Philadelphia Furniture Show, Phila., PA
● 1999. ACC, Charlotte, NC
● 1999. Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
● 1999. Morris Museum, NJ
● 2000. Philadelphia Furniture Show, Phila., PA
● 2000. The Artist’s Gallery, NJ
● 2000. Monmouth Festival of the Arts, NJ

John Richie

● 2001. Monmouth Festival of the Arts, NJ
● 2002. Philadelphia Furniture Show, Phila., PA
● 2003. Design and fabricate home furnishings for St James building, Phila.Pa.
● 2019. Broadfoot & Broadfoot Gallery, NYC. Solo exhibit.

Commissions – Multiple private residential furniture commissions in Philadelphia, PA and Naples, FL.

‘In Awe of Light’
Laurelwood Arboretum
Location #11

In Awe of Light is an immersive composition consisting of three constructions. The
arrangement is organized to reveal a secret hidden in light. “Opening”, “Noon”, and
“Closing” consist of several elements. An optic, created specifically for this project,
is fixed a top of a verde copper stanchion at a total height of 8 feet. Adorning the
side is a configuration of material that casts its form and color onto the ground in
shadow. In the foreground a white rectangle, 3’X6’, awaits the viewer, inviting them
to cast their shadow. A wonder appears!

 

Artist Statement: My goal in woodworking is to bring to environments furnishings that challenge convention; that intrigue the eye and mind; that express function in ways that surprise the viewer and delight the user. My work explores the relationship between ancient tribal art forms and contemporary urban life. With influences as diverse as Africa, Asia and the Americas, new synergies are generated from ancient dialogues. Ever since I was a student I have been fascinated by the aesthetics of tribal cultures, as well as mechanisms rooted in natural materials. What starts out as a vision soon becomes manipulated into a translation, leaving one with a sense of intrigue. As phenomena become intertwined through the convergence of cultures, the viewer is left with an awakened curiosity.

Patricia Lavin

Patricia Lavin was born in 1961 into a family of artists. Her earliest tutelage came from her uncle, Edward J. Lavin S J, a world renowned painter and writer. She attended WPU from 1980-1984, received accreditation in art history from American College, Greece, with a concentration in symbology in 1985–86, and completed her master’s studies at Parsons school of design in 1989.
Patricia Lavin

Throughout the 1990s, Ms. Lavin worked on a diversity of projects designing everything from posters for music venues, theater sets, and costumes, to commercial interiors and vintage hot rod cars. Winning accolades for innovation and intellectual design approaches.

Returning to her roots as a painter, a full time course of studio work was a focus between 1999-2005. Attending the Art students league in NYC she became a recipient of many awards and scholarships for excellence.

‘In Awe of Light’
Laurelwood Arboretum
Location #11

In Awe of Light is an immersive composition consisting of three constructions. The arrangement is organized to reveal a secret hidden in light. “Opening”, “Noon”, and “Closing” consist of several elements. An optic, created specifically for this project, is fixed a top of a verde copper stanchion at a total height of 8 feet. Adorning the side is a configuration of material that casts its form and color onto the ground in shadow. In the foreground a white rectangle, 3’X6’, awaits the viewer, inviting them to cast their shadow. A wonder appears!

Presently, Patricia lives and works in New York City and exhibits a body of work generally once a year. Art films, music videos, sculpture and painting are her mediums of concentration.

Public work can be seen in Playa Ventana, Costa Rica, North Shore, Oahu Hawaii, and Lavallette, New Jersey. Many paintings are held in private collections worldwide.

 

Ulla Novina

Morning Dialogue, an Italian marble sculpture measuring 19” x 14” x 14”, was created by Ulla Novina.

Ulla Novina was born in Sweden and raised in the county of Skåne, an area known for its generosity of spirit, boisterous humor, and exuberant expression of life. In later years she lived in the county of Värmland, known for its mysterious forests and deep lakes. It is the county of dreamers, storytellers, poets, musicians, painters, and sculptors. The spirit of those counties fuels her creative self. The open spirit of the land of America and its adventurous freedom was the anvil needed to mold her work into its sculptural expression.

Ulla Novina

Together the stone and Ulla tell a different story. As Ulla Novina sees it, a sculptor can take one of two paths. The first is merely concerned with creating beauty. The other — the one taken by Novina — has more of a sense of urgency whose roots are influenced by ancient, artistic origins. Primitive art such as hand imprints found on the faces of rocks (made by Paleolithic peoples) or on rock slabs containing Viking runes (an alphabet dating back to the 1st or 2nd century AD) influence her contemporary work by declaring, “I am here.” — as observed by William Zimmer, Art Critic, from The New York Times.

‘Morning Dialogue’
Laurelwood Arboretum
Location #10

Sculpture and drawing studies include Sculpture Studio of Minoru Niizuma, NYC; New School of Social Research, NYC; Ridgewood School of Art and Design, Ridgewood, NJ; Art Student League, NYC and individual teachers who taught out of their own private studios.

In addition to creating art, she also lectures on art and sculpture. She is a former board member of the Art Center of Northern New Jersey, and the president of the Art Center Sculptor Affiliates. 

Solo exhibitions include Broadfoot & Broadfoot SoHo, NYC; Belskie Museum of Art and Science, Closter, NJ; Bergen Museum of Art and Science, NJ; Piermont Fine Arts Gallery, Piermont, NY.

Her work appears in permanent collections at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Schering-Plough Corporation, Madison, NJ; Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ; and Broadfoot & Broadfoot Gallery, Boonton, NJ.

Artist Statement: “Stone is star-stuff of the ages,” writes Swedish-American sculptor Ulla Novina in the booklet accompanying her exhibition “Self and Stone” at Broadfoot & Broadfoot Gallery in Soho. And it is with the ages Novina concerns herself; she tells stories through marble, onyx, travertine, and river stone, stories as old as the stone itself. “Secret Gate” (a piece in Italian marble) evokes ancient cities and forbidden paths, “Ancient Sign” (in Italian travertine) has mystical, religious undertones to it, and “Whispers from the Past II” (in gorgeous pink Portuguese marble) is a quiet, contemplative sculpture, like a memento from another era.

Ken Hiratsuka

Sculptor Ken Hiratsuka was born in Shimodate City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. He graduated in 1982 from Musashino University of Art in Tokyo. In that same year, he came to New York City and he received a fellowship from the Art Student League.

His sculpture ‘Sail’ is located at Site 13 in Laurelwood Arboretum.

Hiratsuka’s stone works are characterized by maze-like designs of infinite variation, always formed by one continuous line that never crosses itself. He often refers to his works as “fossils of movement.” They are both modern and ancient, a symbol of human communication through universal language on the surface of the earth as one huge rock. Committed to art for everyone, he began sculpting the slate and granite sidewalks of New York City, becoming a figure in the Street Art Movement of the 80s.

Hirasuka Sail

Driven by his vision of art’s capacity to transcend the differences of nations and languages, his work can now be seen in permanent public sites in both urban and natural environments in 21 countries.  

Hiratsuka’s commissioned works include sculptured sidewalks, building facades and entranceways, water sculptures and gardens.  His public monuments include his 12 boulder “Peace Monument” for the Japanese

               Ken Hiratsuka        Sail  Location  #13

Gardens of Cowra, Australia; “One Line Tower” – 40 tons by 30 feet high – in Yuzi Paradise Sculpture Park in Guilin, China; “One Line Boulder”, a 2003 commission for the city of Chikusei, Japan; and “River”, a 100 foot long carved granite sidewalk at 25 Bond in New York City.

Artist Statement: “I hope that those who see my work will discover new aspects of life, deeper levels of experience of which they may be only dimly aware. I want to inspire people to become more conscious of nature and our common humanity. No matter how lifestyles change, the basic self remains the same. I want to help bring human beings together. In my art there are no social, economic, cultural, or political distinctions. We are all one.”

Jon Krawczyk

‘Robber’s Roost’ fabricated from polished steel and enamel paint measuring 9 feet high was created by Jon Krawczyk.

Krawczyk pushes the boundaries of his medium by transforming steel and bronze into a study of the human condition. Lauded for his ability to turn metal into large scale biomorphic sculptures that can strike one as having their own ubiquitous presence.

He draws inspiration from renowned modern masters such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Henry Moore and David Smith. He is not only influenced by the obviously masterful techniques of these artists, but also by the philosophical tenets of their sculpture practice.

His work also has a conceptual side, that dovetails with the physicality of making art and the objects that result from that material action, such as energy and matter. Krawczyk cuts, pounds, and welds sheets of bronze and stainless steel to fabricate smooth, monolithic forms that look as though they were carved by a samurai slicing clay. At the same time, the highly polished sculptural

Jon Krawczyk
Photo Credit: Dave Teel Photography
Robbers Roost

‘Robber’s Roost’
This sculpture has been removed.

profiles of his “Smoke” and “Glacé” series suggest raw stone yet evoke vaporous shapes and melting ice. There are echoes of Isamu Noguchi in this work, as it sits at the intersection of natural and manmade forms. Additional traces of Henry Moore can be found in a consistent concern with volume and abstract figuration.

Hailing from Boonton, NJ and a graduate of Connecticut College in New London, CT, Krawczyk studied fine art throughout Europe before moving west in the 1990s. Early in his career he apprenticed with many acclaimed sculptors who were considered icons of the second generation of great American metal sculptors. Over the last 20 years, Krawczyk has parlayed these key life experiences into his aesthetic approach and studio practice.

 

He has exhibited in several galleries across the United States and placed in many prestigious private art collections around the world. Several of Jon Krawczyk’s most recent projects are large-scale, site-specific, public art installations at high profile locations in Silicon Valley-San Francisco Bay area, Seattle-Bellevue region, Los Angeles-Beverly Hills, Metropolitan New York, NY / Newark, NJ area.

Selected solo exhibitions include Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hill, CA; Broadfoot & Broadfoot Gallery, NYC; Lumina Gallery, Taos, NM; and KL Fine Art, Chicago, IL.

Micajah Bienvenu

Pi in the Sky III, fabricated from stainless steel and standing more than 17 feet high, was created by Micajah Bienvenu. His work combines technology with traditional, large scale design and fabrication to demonstrate the human experience. His pieces evoke emotion that invite us into spaces that reflect the enormity of the natural world and the human experience in relation to it in the moment.

Micajah studied sculpture at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. A celebrated Pacific Northwest sculptor, he now resides in Vermont where his contemporary sculptures are conceived in a 3D modeling program and fabricated in his studio.

His work is best known for its graceful twisting and turning sculpture made from carefully crafted stainless steel metal. According to the artist, “my work is meant to inspire and uplift. I believe art

‘Pi in the Sky III’
Laurelwood Arboretum Location #9

should make us feel better. With its emphasis on curves, lines and seams, my work has been described as 3-D abstract paintings.”

Micajah Bienvenu
Micajah Bienvenu

Recent public commissions include Washington States Arts Commission, Art in Public Places Program, South Seattle College, Seattle, WA; Thurman Street Bridge, Portland DOT, Portland, OR; Town Icon Sculpture, Town of Friday Harbor, WA.

Selected exhibitions include Matzke Galley of Fine Art and Sculpture Park, Camano Island, WA; Gallery Without Walls, Lake Oswego, OR; Salem Art Works, Salem, NY; Art in the Parks, Westchester County, NY; and his work is included in corporate collections including MacDonald’s Corporate Headquarters, Seattle, WA; Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Renton, WA; Nordstrom Corporate Headquarters, Seattle, WA; Spears Plastics, Los Angeles, CA.

Artist Statement: In the early part of my career my studio was in close proximity to heavy industry in Seattle and I was exposed to many large-scale fabrication techniques. This really expanded my ideas of what was possible with my art making. I am inspired by forms found in nature and science. I particularly love the fluidity of form found in the natural environment such as vines, tree roots, water currents and the paths of subatomic particles.

 

Bill Barrett

‘Flight in Abstract’
This sculpture has been removed.

“Flight in Abstract,” a 51” by 45” by 21” fabricated bronze sculpture was created by renowned artist, Bill Barrett. The piece has a sense of movement or dance of the abstract figures with the complex swirls and twists of intertwining bronze. Barrett is known primarily for his large-scale outdoor public sculptures of fabricated aluminum, bronze, or steel that address the interplay between positive and negative space with grace, elegance and exquisite balance.

Barrett earned a BS degree and an MS degree in Design from the University of Michigan, and later a Master of Fine Arts degree from the same institution. He has taught at Eastern Michigan University, the Cleveland Institute of Art, SUNY New Paltz, Queens College and Columbia University.

In 2011, his commemorative bronze sculpture ‘911’ from his Lexeme Series was installed for temporary display in Tribeca’s Finn Square Park in New York. The work, which combines abstract and representational elements, has been celebrated for its graceful tribute to the tragic terrorist events of September 11, 2001.

Bill Barrett
Tango

‘Tango’
William Paterson University

Over the past forty years, he has exhibited regularly in New York and Santa Fe in solo and group exhibitions. His works are represented in the collections of Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico,  the Knoxville Museum of Art in Tennessee, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.

His 9-foot work ‘Tango’ can be seen outside the Cheng Library on the campus of William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey.

Artist Statement: Abstract art is like music in that when you listen to a song, everyone has different ideas about it, feels different emotions because of it. Even the same person listening to a piece at different times will feel differently. That’s true of abstract art. As a viewer, you can interpret it for yourself as well as seeing what the artist made. That’s what I like about abstract art: you get a chance to participate.

Martha Walker

Dyad, a welded steel abstract plant sculpture, was created by artist Martha Walker. Her metal sculptures, made from meticulously dripped molten steel, often express something deep and personal. Her large (6’10”) ‘Dyad’ is based on the scientific double helix and associated with romantic love. Her process of dripping liquid steel one drop at a time in order to build up massive forms allows for a unique combination of texture and line rarely seen in steel.

Martha Walker

Martha attended Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York where she obtained a BFA degree in Fine Arts and a Master’s degree in Art Education, Honors.     

‘Dyad’
Laurelwood Arboretum
SOLD

Recent group exhibitions of her work include Currently 80, Sculptures Guild Group Show at the Westbeth Gallery, New York; Summer Exhibition, Studio 80+ Sculpture Grounds; New Conceptions, Sculpture Guild, Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, New York; Texas Contemporary International Art Fair, Denis Bibro Fina Art; Politics in Art: From Warhol and Rauschenberg to the Present Day, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York. 

Recent solo exhibitions include Turning Inward, Denis Bibro Fine Art, Chelsea, New York and Broken World, Anxious Heart, The Sylvia Wald and Po Kin Gallery, New York.

In 2019, her “Separation Anxiety” sculpture was selected for the final episode of season seven of ‘Orange is the New Black’ television show.

Artist Statement: Throughout my tedious process, time passes quickly, while at the same time, stands still. I am fueled by an obsessive drive to create something personal and unique through my art with the finite time that my life affords me. With every line, each silhouette, and form, I ask myself: Is it pure? Is it Me? Have I shown integrity in my process to reflect my own truth? The results must be as strong and effective as humanly possible. For me, that is all that there is.

Harry Gordon

Sandalphon, created in 2010 using black granite, it is meant to become one with the environment which surrounds it. Using a crane to create his granite sculptures, Gordon believes that his work is not complete until it is viewed by the public. “It is as if they get their batteries charged with each person that sees them,” stated the artist.

Primarily using wood and granite for his pieces, Gordon’s work is often viewed as being “larger than life.” By only using wood which has been removed for other purposes or from a tree which has fallen naturally, Gordon’s shows his appreciation and sensitivity to nature and his environment.

Born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, he received his Bachelor of Fine Art degree in sculpture from Syracuse University in 1983. In 1987, he moved to New Jersey to earn his Master of Fine Art degree in sculpture from Rutgers University, and he has lived in the state since that time.

Harry Gordon with Sandalphon

Gordon began sculpting in a community art class and was an apprentice to Boris Blai, a classically trained Russian figurative sculptor who had worked in Auguste Rodin’s studio. Gordon began his sculpture career with a very classical, figurative approach but now creates larger-than-life organic sculptures that are designed to “exist naturally in the landscape.”

‘Sandalphon’
Laurelwood Arboretum
Location #4

Gordon’s work has been included in exhibits at the Genest Gallery, Lambertville, NJ; Carnegie Center Greenway, Princeton, NJ; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ; The Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ; 1995; the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Cadwalder Park, Trenton, NY; the Station Plaza Sculpture Walk, Trenton, NJ; and SUNY Plattsburgh Sculpture Park, Plattsburgh, NY.

Major solo exhibitions include Harry H. Gordon at Morris Arboretum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Outdoor Sculpture at the Chapin School, Princeton, NJ; and the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA.

Harry Gordon is now the owner of Harry Gordon Studios, a company which handles and moves sculptures.

Artist Statement: When I begin working with a piece of wood, I rotate it until I find a position where it begins to work as a sculpture. Then I start carving. Wood has a spirit and a natural gesture within it.

Jeffrey Breslow

Magic in the Air, painted steel roads and granite stones, was created by lifelong Chicagoan Jeffrey Breslow. A nature lover, his inspiration unusually starts from nature; in this case stones. He received his BFA degree in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois where his instructor Edward Zagorski introduced him to design—a dimension of creation beyond making and shaping.

His enthusiasm for design brought a sense of play to his fascination with form and construction and soon he recognized that designing children’s toys and games was the perfect synthesis. Breslow spent 41 years as a renowned toy designer and was president and CEO of Big Monster Toys until 2008, when he chose to pursue his first passion of sculpting full-time.

His solo exhibition Boulder & Boulder appeared at Willis Tower in Chicago. Other exhibitions include the International Sculpture Outdoor Exhibition in Chicago, the Chicago Flower and Garden Show, and One of A Kind Show at The Merchandize Mart in Chicago.

Jeffrey Breslow

‘Magic in the Air’
Laurelwood Arboretum

He has exhibited his sculptures at a variety of shows including the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art in Ohio, Hofstra University in Hempstead on Long Island, Manhattan Community College, and at Pier Walk 98 in Chicago.

Artist Statement: My Abstract Sculptures begin with extraordinary boulders and stones, the shapes of which inspire my steel structures. All of which kindles a conversation between human creativity and the natural world. My sculptural forms cause the viewer to appreciate a common connection to nature and affirm the ability to shape our world in exceptional ways.

Joel Perlman

RING TOP TOWER, welded steel, was created by Joel Perlman. For Perlman, sculpting is an adventure and each work is the record and result of an exploration of weight, danger, negative space, and monumentality. His process is one that is tied closely to the materials and to the construction and deconstruction that take place during the creation of his sculpture. Perlman often starts by cutting shapes, primarily out of steel, and then welds them together to create the sculpture.

The obvious joining lines, surface nicks and scratches record the process of creation, are evidence of the hand of the artist, and articulate a relationship between painting and sculpture. There are no preliminary drawings, for Perlman sees his work as evidence of a process, and the result of an activity. Perlman’s sculptures contain an acknowledged influence of Russian Constructivism in their glory of the geometric form. His works are also known for the central, open spaces that are integral to his work. These negative spaces help define the work and are as important to Perlman as the sculpture itself.

Joel Perlman

‘Ring Top Tower’
Laurelwood Arboretum
Location #12

He was born in New York in 1943. While an undergraduate student at Cornell University, he learned to weld by taking adult education classes off-campus. This activity became a great influence as he learned alongside bikers, farmers, and truck drivers. He earned a BFA at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 1965, and an MA degree from the University of California, Berkley in 1967. Perlman has been an instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City since 1973.

Selected awards include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1979; The Special Prize from the second Fujisankei Biennale; and Japan Commission for the Tenneco World Headquarters, in 1995. His work is included in the public collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY; and the Utsukushi-Ga-Hara Open Air Museum, Japan.

Recent solo exhibitions include Loretta Howard Gallery, New York and ILLE Arts, Amagansett, New York.

Artist’s Statement: About the process of welding, Joel Perlman has said, “I was immediately transfixed by the whole process. The raw power at your disposal, that you could take two pieces of metal, there would be a flash and a buzz, and suddenly they’re one single piece…I felt I’d found a work process that could keep up with my thought process.”

Robert Koch

Growing up in Pennsylvania, his interest in art started at an early age. He attended Kutztown University, where he studied art education. Over the course of nearly 20 years, he created functional stoneware pottery and traveled the east coast selling work at art festivals.

In 2000, he registered in a metal sculpting class at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and knew immediately that this indeed was a calling. In 2004, he made the life-changing decision to move from rural Pennsylvania to the NYC area and transition Robert Koch Studios as an artist working solely on steel sculpture.

Robert Koch

‘Allonge’
Laurelwood Arboretum
Location #1

Allonge, Robert Koch’s 8’ x 7” x 10” milled steel work replaces Koch’s Ferrous Couture, which was recently sold. Allonge was installed in the same location overlooking Laurel Pond. The sculpture was inspired by organic movements found in nature.

Recent group exhibitions of his work included Celebrations and Beginnings II at OTA Contemporary in Sante Fe, New Mexico.

Robert’s list of public and corporate commissions is rapidly growing. His work recently received a place of honor in his adopted hometown of Jersey City. The Mack-Cali Realty Corporation has installed his nine large spheres in its headquarters, the Harborside Atrium. The orbs descend from the ceiling at various heights, and the dark globes of open metalwork are illuminated against the white ceiling glass.

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Richard Heinrich

Mingus II, welded steel sculpture, was created by Brooklyn native Richard Heinrich. He listens to music as he works in his Tribeca studio, and the titles of his work often reflect the strong influences of Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk and others.

Works by Richard Heinrich can be seen in the collections at The Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at PepsiCo in Purchase, New York; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick campus; the New York Public Library in Manhattan; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; and at corporate headquarters and private homes across the country.

Richard Heinrich

He has exhibited his sculptures at a variety of shows including the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art in Ohio, Hofstra University in Hempstead on Long Island, Manhattan Community College, and at Pier Walk 98 in Chicago.

‘Mingus II’
Laurelwood Arboretum
Location #8

Artist Statement: I have been a sculptor for more than five decades, working most of the time in steel. My grandfather founded the Heinrich Iron Works in 1905 in Brooklyn. My father, a civil engineer, passed on the construction affinity to me and as an art student I gravitated to the material. Steel is incredibly malleable and very strong. It can withstand stress and bad weather like no other sculpture material. Bronze is prone to rot and marble can chip and break. Wood can be carved but will burn and splinter. And as an added incentive steel is very inexpensive. My lower Manhattan studio and home afford me the opportunity to see and interact with the robust art environment in New York City. To have work in a sylvan glade in New Jersey is a pleasant contrast to the hurly burly of Manhattan.

James Tyler

Iyemoja is an Orisha from the Yoruba religion of West Africa. She is the protector of all women, governing childbirth, conception, love, and healing. According to myth, when her waters broke, it caused a great flood creating rivers and streams. Iyemoja also traveled in slave ships to the Americas where she evolved into a revered goddess of the sea among practitioners of Brazilian Umbandu and Candomble, Cuban Santeria, and Haitian Voodou.

James Tyler

Brickhead Iyemoja

James Tyler’s Brickhead installations are unique colossal heads that invite us to identify with the world’s ceramic heritages. They bring today’s faces together with pre-Columbian, South American, Native American, Asian, African, and Western influences. Gallery Director Mark Ruschman noted, “There is something timeless in Tyler’s Brickhead sculptures, reminiscent perhaps of the temple carvings of Angkor Wat or the great Toltec heads of Central America. Yet they are clearly contemporary, relics of a civilization not yet past…The ponderous weight of the brick constructions is juxtaposed with the ethereal nature of time.” At the same, the heads are stylized portraits of everyman and everywoman. They are unique yet universal. They are us.

For ancient peoples, colossal stone and clay heads, such as those created by the Toltec, Olmec and other cultures in central Mexico, often symbolized their connections with the spirits they worshipped, and these, in turn, often represented the elements, such as rain and sun, or other larger-than-life phenomena, such as death and love. Each culture created large heads to suit its own purposes. The Toltecs created large ceramic heads symbolizing their indigenous culture and values, yet scholars differ in their analyses of the origins and meanings of these works. Tyler’s easy way of replacing the gods with our own visages is, in a way, Socratic. Socrates insisted that the gods on Mount Olympus were only representations of a higher being. By choosing to represent all of humanity, the here and now that exists outside of cultural considerations, Tyler is having his own Socratic dialogue with pre-Columbian artists. [From Tyler’s website, tylersculpture.com]

Gabriella –
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