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inding along the waterfront Instead, the Odette Park is metric shapes of Windsor’s own parkland of Windsor, , unified by its difference and the rich- Joseph DeAngelis. ’s southernmost urban centre, ness of its multi-textured variety. It is a strange balance, a sort of the Odette Sculpture Park locates itself A visitor on this path is continually converging divergence that shows so as a point of physical, political and presented with the infinite complexity much difference only to suggest that philosophical intersection. of our shared human experience. perhaps we are all, in some small way, This is contemporary sculpture on We see work from very different connected. the border. It is a meeting place for places and people: the naturalistic The Odette Sculpture Park is made expression, an environment where power of Pauta Saila’s Dancing Bear possible by the generosity of the P&L work from Canada and across the meets the industrially inspired work of Odette Foundation. The Park is world combines and contrasts. Sorel Etrog; the fluid human form of located along Riverside Drive West The collection purposely does not Dame Elisabeth Frink’s Flying Men is between the and conform to any one artistic vision. juxtaposed with the weighted geo- Church Street. Open dawn to dusk.

Lloyd Burridge, Commissioner Department of Parks & Recreation, 2450 McDougall Street, Windsor, Ontario N8X 3N6 Canada Telephone: 519-253-2300 • Toll Free: 888-519-3333 www.windsorsculpturepark.com Toni Putnam 1. Trees Normandy, France, commemorating the Sorel Etrog Etrog’s sculpture probes the relation- featured prominently in several impor- The King and Queen Toni Putnam was born in Boston and “Creation is mysterious,” says Toni 50th anniversary of the liberation by painted steel ship between man and machinery and tant public and private collections. studied at the University of Rochester, Putnam. “I thoroughly enjoy the inter- Canadian forces. In 1967, Etrog was 10’ high attempts to illustrate an expressive Pauta Saila continues to live and work in l’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Fountainbleu, action between what I think is going to commissioned by Expo in to intersection between the individual and Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, Nunavut. France and the Atlanta School of Art. happen and what actually happens.” create two large for the industrialism. The machinery of the In 1971 she co-founded the Tallix Art Putnam is intensely interested in the World’s Fair, and in 1968 he was asked manufacturer become the tools of the 3. Dancing Bear Foundry in Beacon, New York where she tactile elements of sculpture, the true to create the small statuettes which artist. Steel plating, sheet metal, bolts, The massive arctic polar bear, distilled to was a principal for fourteen years. Dur- “feeling” of a piece that can only be would serve as the Canadian Film rivets and hinges are prominently the base elements of its raw strength and ing this time she explored and refined achieved through touch. Each one of Awards. Though these awards are now featured in this work, illustrating intricate balance, is Pauta Saila’s most the innovative welding techniques for these trees has been carefully cultivated. more famously known as “The Genies,” contact, tension and articulation. In our recognizable subject. The piece shows a sheet copper, which have now become Using welding techniques which are they were originally called “Etrogs.” city this theme extends, great respect for the beauty and power of her trademark. uniquely her own, Putnam focuses Throughout his long career Etrog has stressing perhaps that all nature’s art. The shape of Dancing Bear She has sustained a long time interest intense heat as a force of uncontrollable been closely associated with many of the work is at some level artistic. represents one human’s imagination in the copper medium and become an change. In this heat each tree “grows” in twentieth century’s greatest thinkers and The King and Queen was trying to understand or hold on to the expert patinator. She has exhibited its own way. Red, green and brown are artists. constructed in incredible energy of the natural world. extensively in the eastern United States contained in each piece of metal. Trees Windsor at Rather than attempt to render the bear and presented her work internationally is a hands-on sculpture. The viewer is DeMonte realistically, Saila’s work sees the animal’s in Tuscany, Italy and New Delhi, India. invited to reach out and feel the unique Sorel Etrog Fabrication movement in a more simplified fluid In 1996, Toni Putnam was elected as a textures and surface of each work. Space Plough II Inc. form. Balance is emphasized again. painted steel Fellow of the National Sculpture Society 17’ wide x 8’ high Dancing Bear has already become a of America. Sorel Etrog beloved Windsor landmark, and one of Arguably the most critically celebrated the favourite stops on any walk through Canadian sculptor alive today, Sorel the Park. Etrog’s impressive and multi- Though the team at DeMonte is faceted career has but simple steel construction, a basic usually occupied with projects for the spanned more triangular shape and is painted in that construction or automotive industries, Pauta Saila Toni Putnam than forty recognizable cautionary orange of heavy- Etrog himself observed that their skill Dancing Bear Trees bronze with selected patina welded copper duty industrial machinery. Etrog’s with his piece was “as good as anywhere 8’ high 5 pieces, trademark central hinge is also promi- I have ever worked in the world.” The 4’ to 7’5” high nently featured. King and Queen can be seen as the At first glance the piece might look crowning piece for the Odette Sculpture like something left behind by a road Park simply because it speaks so directly years. In that time he has been prolific He has collaborated with distinguished crew. “Is this just a plough?” a viewer to our city’s industrial experience, our as a sculptor, a painter, an illustrator, a international literary figures Samuel might wonder. It is a justified first faith in craftsmanship, and our belief poet and a filmmaker. His work has Beckett, and Eugene Ionesco and also impression. that we are all able to bend, shape and been displayed at major international maintained a close working relationship But Etrog makes us reconsider. The connect the materials of our daily galleries around the world from to with Canada’s famed communication piece asks for a different set of questions lives into works of lasting Singapore, and from India to Switzer- theorist Marshall McLuhan. In 1995 with a different sort of emphasis: Is this expression. land. In North America his position is Etrog was named a member of the just a plough? Or, can a plough be art? secure in many of the most prestigious Order of Canada and in 1996 was These tools we have made and used with Pauta Saila private and public collections, including appointed Chevalier of Arts and Letters such great practical success during this Pauta Saila was born in 1916 the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum by the Government of France. century — do they speak for us? Is this in a small camp on south and the Museum of Modern Art in New our art? Baffin Island in the North- York City, as well as the National Gallery 2. Space Plough II west Territories. of Canada in and Le Musée des Space Plough II provides a good 4. The King and Queen In 1967 he was chosen to Beaux Arts in Montreal. representation of Sorel Etrog’s famous In many ways the addition of Sorel represent Canadian Inuit Sculpture For decades Etrog’s sculpture has fascination with the industrial themes of Etrog’s The King and Queen into the at the International Sculpture played an important role in the develop- the twentieth century. The piece asks Odette Sculpture Park marks a true Symposium and also participated in ment of the Canadian arts. In 1988, he for a reconsideration. It asks the viewer moment of “coronation” for the city’s the Eskimo Sculpture exhibit at the was commissioned to represent Canada to try bringing machinery into the waterfront collection. The work of this Art Gallery. Following these with a sculpture for the Summer museum, to see that even the most Romanian born artist speaks very two historic showings, Saila has been Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. utilitarian objects of our creation also specifically to our city, reflecting passions recognized as one of the elders of Inuit In 1994, the Government of Canada have at least some artistic and expressive and ideas which are very close to home art. His work has been presented in donated the sculpture Sunbird to component. Space Plough II has a strong for many of us. hundreds of exhibitions and he is

The Odette Sculpture Park ...a museum without walls Stephen Cruise The ringing of a dinner bell award is The Rabin International 7. Union Six Embassies in Tokyo and Mexico City as Stephen Cruise was born in Montreal in meant it was time to put Presentation Sculpture, Los Angeles, In Watson’s fluid sculpture the viewer is well as several sculptures for courthouses, 1949. He has traveled around the world down work and return home 1996. He is a member of the Royal presented with evolving forms through hospitals, synagogues and estates in the and lived for extended periods of time in for a meal. In a very Joe Rosenthal Canadian Academy and the Ontario various stages of organic development. area. Consolation Seoul, South Korea and Tokyo, Japan. intimate way these bells bronze Society of Artists. Watson places all his emphasis on the Kantaroff has received the YMCA’s Cruise’s sculpture has been exhibited “measured” out the regular 5’ high work itself. “You do these things and Women of Distinction Award for across North America and featured in span of a life and marked its 6. Consolation then let them speak for themselves,” he courage and outstanding achievement in many international shows, including major events. In Joe Rosenthal’s art the human figure says. the arts, and, in 1992, she was recog- three recent appearances in the Bienal Cruise’s work takes the is presented with impressive weight. The nized by the Sculptor’s Society of Barro de America in Caracas, Venezuela. bell out of the belfry and solid rounded shapes of Consolation Maryon Kantaroff Canada with its prestigious President’s Cruise has won several important puts it on display. It asks us display a substantial inner fortitude, One of Canada’s most recognized sculp- Award. commissions for public art in the Metro- to take a closer look at an what some critics have called his tors, Maryon Kantaroff, was born in politan Toronto area. The six pieces of art form of the everyday. “enduring universal toughness.” This Toronto in 1933. She studied piano at 8. The Garden his Spadina Avenue series, Places in a His work invites the viewer artist does not portray the human form the Royal Conservatory of Music and In The Garden, Kantaroff returns again Book, reinforce his interest in ideas of to appreciate the precision, as a fragile thing, teetering on the edge majored in art and archaeology at the to her life-long thematic interest in the localized history. Cruise’s work has been balance and craftsmanship of collapse. Instead, Rosenthal’s heavy , receiving her relationship between woman and man. recognized with grants and awards of these ordinary sculpture of two seated women seems honours degree in 1957. She was assis- “It has always been there for me,” says from the and the masterpieces that were able to hold its own ground, able to tant curator at the Art Gallery of the artist. “In the beginning I wasn’t Ontario Arts Council. His sculpture never really seen by mark a place for itself against the chaos Ontario from 1957-1958 and then pur- even really aware of it, but others could is featured in the collections of the the public. of conflicting forces. sued post-graduate studies in American see that my shapes were changing, the National Gallery, the Art Gallery of The Measure of ethnology at the British Museum in harder lines were softening, becoming Ontario and the Canada Council Art Cruise’s title applies Bruce Watson London. While in England she also more fluid.” In this sculpture, it is the Bank. to the long wooden handle of the Bell Measure gives us a history of our Bruce Watson was born on a sugar studied at Reading University, the Sir interdependency of the two figures that Stephen Cruise is also an accom- piece and references the image of a present. As a true sign of its time, the plantation in British Guiana (now John Cass College of Art and the re- is placed in the foreground. Rather than plished martial artist, with a 4th bar measure, a calibrated ruler used date of the work’s installation is stamped Guyana). He came to Canada in 1957 nowned Chelsea College of Art. In marking a clear separation between the degree black belt in Kendo, (Japanese by archaeologists to take measure- in Roman numerals on the bottom rim and entered the Ontario College of Art, addition she has been an art critic for male and female halves of this piece, sword fencing) and a 5th degree ments of depth and range. The of the bell: MCMXCIX. Cruise’s mass- graduating in 1961. He has exhibited the British Broadcasting Corporation black belt in Iaido (Japanese sword bar measure is a kind of historical ive and silent Bell Measure marks its across Canada with many shows in and Eastern Europe Broadcasting. draw). marker. In an excavated site it territory on the old side of our shifting Montreal and Toronto, including At home, Kantaroff has been a negotiates between the present millennium, before the take over of several one man shows at the major political and philo- 5. Bell Measure and the past; it stands streamlining abbreviations like “Y2K” or Albert White Gallery. sophical presence in between the buried culture the ominous sounding Roman numeral: Maryon Kantaroff MCMXCIX, 1999 Canadian sculpture for more The Garden Stephen Cruise’s Bell and the researchers who MM. than 30 years. She is a found- bronze 6’ high Measure is actually two attempt to unearth it. Bruce Watson ing member of the Toronto pieces combined into one. The bar measure Joe Rosenthal Union Six New Feminists, and con- Joe Rosenthal was born in and bronze The Bell of the title recalls provides archaeologists 4’ high tinues to be committed to the importance of many with a sense of scale. came to Canada in 1927. He served in the human rights projects of different kinds of bells A single bronze bird is the Canadian Armed Forces from 1942- Amnesty International and that once rang out over located on the east 1945. He studied at the Ontario Artists for Peace. In 1974 our communities, side of the bell. College of Art and continued his learn- she established the Toronto each one with its ing on extensive sketching trips though Art Foundry and own kind of the Northwest Territories, Mexico, operated it until calling. Cuba, England, Holland, France, Italy, 1988, casting bronze The ringing Spain, Greece, Jordan, Israel and Egypt. sculptures for herself of church bells His work has been recognized with as well as other awards from the , recorded the passing Stephen Cruise His work has been recognized and artists across Canada and the United of time for generations of people. Bell Measure MCMXCIX, 1999 the Canada Council and the Toronto supported by the Canada Council and States. She has exhibited extensively in bronze and wood Outdoor Exhibition. His awards also has been featured in the public collec- The same sound also marked significant 7’2” wide x 14’ high England, Europe, Canada and the community events. Church bells rang include first prize in the National Open tions of the Canadian Department of United States, including several solo for religious ceremonies and for impor- The presence/memory of the cardinal Sculpture Competition for the Dr. Sun External Affairs and the City of Toronto exhibitions in London, Milan, Munich, tant town meetings, for family gather- guides the echo of Bell Measure. Yat Sen Monument. Since 1957, his Sculpture Garden. Watson’s sculpture Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, Los ings, even for emergency fire alarms. Stephen Cruise has produced a work work has been exhibited in many solo also appears in many other private and Angeles and Sophia, Bulgaria. Her Hand held school bells called children to that balances his interest in community and group shows throughout North corporate collections across North private commissions include monu- classes or released them for recess. and archaeology. Like a time capsule his America and Europe. His most recent America and around the world. mental works for the Canadian

The Odette Sculpture Park ...a museum without walls Kantaroff draws the viewer’s attention to on to the perfectly natural shape Edwina Sandys of steel. Approaching the sculpture from within its own construction and the their blurring similarity. Both figures and symbol of an egg. Cordella The artistic appeal of Edwina Sandys lies the side, the piece begins as a series of perpetually shifting interplay of light and balance their hard and soft elements, also restates Kantaroff’s interest in in her diverse subject matter which two dimensional straight lines, but as the shadow it creates. At every different making it impossible to mark the defin- paired shapes or matching dualities. ranges from the lighthearted to the pro- viewer comes closer, other angles begin time of day, the sculpture’s multi-layered ing characteristics of gender. The two The two hemispheres flow into found. Her clearly recognizable style to develop and the work gains a third surface casts different patterns, unique halves encounter each other as equals, each other. They emphasize again uses positive and negative forms to dimension, a depth which reaches its combinations of darkness and light. and in their coming together, they the ideas of fluid natural develop- powerful effect. fullness only when the viewer is staring The apple is displayed prominently, held illustrate a simple but profound desire ment and contact. It is an import- Internationally renowned as a sculptor, directly into the centre of the hand. almost proudly in the fingertips, for free interaction and clear commun- ant work for the artist and for the British born Edwina Sandys divided her Eve’s Apple captures that moment in showing off the marking of its bite. ication. Odette Sculpture Park. working life between London and Tus- the biblical story just after Eve has taken Like most of Sandys’ work, Eve’s Apple “I think this one piece almost sums Dame her important bite from the fruit of is defined by what is missing. Here we Elisabeth Frink cany, Italy before moving to New York 10. Cordella up my philosophical vision of the Flying Men City where she now lives. A “citizen of knowledge. It is a complex turning are presented with that famous cut of “I think I was asking, where do we all world,” states the artist. bronze with the world” in more ways than one, point; an intersection at which know- fruit that divides our innocence from selected patina come from?” two figures, Sandys’ work occupies a position of ledge is achieved and innocence is lost. experience, the absent bite that In Cordella we see Kantaroff’s atten- Dame each 8’ high central importance in the closely related The sculpture represents such tensions simultaneously offered and took away. tion shifting to a universal fascination Elisabeth Frink realms of international art and politics. with the idea of origins. The piece is Dame Elisabeth Frink was born in Her work has always reflected a strong dynamic and seems to be growing Thurlow, Suffolk, England in social consciousness, focusing on several organically. 1930. From 1947-1949 she key issues of contemporary society: Cordella is caught up in the evolution- attended the Guilford School of children, family, war and peace, women ary tension of being a living thing. Art and from 1949-1953 she and the environment. Her monumental Beginning at the microscopic level, one studied under Bernard Meadows sculptures have been installed at United half of this clam-shaped sculpture seems and Willi Soukop at the famous Nations centres in Geneva, Vienna, New to represent a cell moving through the Chelsea School of Art. Solo York City and Rio de Janeiro. She is the earliest stages of its division. The other exhibitions of her work have been recipient of the United Nations Society half, more rounded and smooth, holds staged in most of the world’s finest of Writers and Artists 1997 Award. galleries. Among her best-known In 1990, her political and artistic works are the Eagle Lectern in passions were combined once again in a Maryon Kantaroff Coventry Cathedral, Man on a Cordella major piece entitled Breakthrough, in- aluminum Horse in Piccadilly Circus and the stalled at Westminster College, Fulton, 5’ high Kennedy Memorial in Dallas, Texas. Missouri where, in 1946 Winston S. Elisabeth Frink’s honorary titles Churchill, Edwina’s grandfather, made include honorary degrees from his famous “iron curtain” speech. Oxford, Cambridge, the University Breakthrough is constructed from eight of Surrey, University of Warwick, 9. Flying Men massive sections of the Berlin Wall. and University of Exeter. She was In the work of Elisabeth Frink, the Male and female forms cut out of the awarded a Doctorate by the Royal viewer is presented with sculpted bronze concrete wall invite people to pass College of Art in 1982 and in in its most essentialized form. Stripped through, both physically and emotion- 1990, a book entitled Elisabeth of any ornament or stylistic conceit, the ally, this formerly impenetrable barrier Frink: Sculpture and Drawing rough textured, almost unfinished, between Communism and the Free 1950-1990 was published in Flying Men are held in a straightforward World. Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Washington, D.C. by the action. They move across an open space Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher have National Museum of Women together with their arms outstretched, all walked through Breakthrough and in the Arts. The British Postal perhaps reaching for something, perhaps delivered their own defining speeches Service released a commem- fumbling forward. As some critics have there, providing a permanent link orative stamp honouring her noted, Frink’s art is without “theatrical between the world’s varied people and as one of the outstanding fat;” there is no “falsity of feeling.” places. Edwina Sandys women of the 20th Century. Some see these figures held in simple Eve’s Apple Elisabeth Frink died in 1993. 11. Eve’s Apple painted steel pleasure, and others interpret a pain 12’4” high caused by rootlessness and loss. The Eve’s Apple displays Edwina Sandys’ Flying Men illustrate a full realization of continued interest in positive and physical and spiritual freedom, which negative space. This very feminine hand may or may not be entirely joyful. with its nail polished fingertips is con- structed out of three separately cut panes

The Odette Sculpture Park ...a museum without walls Olympic Games. In 1977 he was one Gerald Gladstone Painted by Yolanda Vandergaast of five sculptors selected to represent Penguins on a Waterfall Gerald Gladstone was born in painted aluminum Canada in the Pan American Wood Toronto, Ontario. In the early 3 figures, 3’ to 4’ tall Sculpture Symposium in Vancouver, years of his education he worked British Columbia. in commercial advertising, event- His work is included in many public ually reaching the position of art and private collections. He has exhib- director with McLaren Adver- ited in numerous local exhibitions as tising. In 1959, with the assis- well as shows in Toronto, Detroit, New tance of several major Canadian York, Germany, Italy and Spain. grant awards, Gladstone left the business world in order to “adver- 13. Rinterzo tise the spirit” in the world of fine Titled with the Italian word for a billiard art. He was resident sculptor at shot and interactive in almost every the Royal College of Art in element, Rinterzo invites the viewer to London, England where he met become a participant, to enter into a Henry Moore who became his game which is simultaneously playful mentor and friend. and sensual. The universal shape of Gladstone’s work has been these elegantly coloured spheres holds exhibited in major galleries across infinite possibilities for interpretation. North America and Europe. Are we looking at the balls in a child’s Some of his noteworthy comm- game, or is there the suggestion of issions include the Martin Luther something more massive, maybe a King, Jr. Memorial in Compton, representation of the planets? California and three major works 12. Penguins Rinterzo is almost a physical reflection for Expo ‘67 in Montreal. He has on a Waterfall Joseph DeAngelis on the riverfront as a defining site for been a lecturer at the University of The most regal of all penguins, the Joseph DeAngelis was born in Windsor. The piece is fully integrated Toronto and has been called upon Emperor penguins in the Odette Providence, Rhode Island in 1938 and into the slope of the hill and the round to judge other sculptures under Sculpture Park – painted by artist became a landed immigrant in Canada vertical portal in the middle of the commission for private corpor- Yolanda Vandergaast – stand erect in 1969. Since that time, he has been a fountain provides the viewer with a ations and organizations. overlooking the . Penguins professor in the School of Visual Arts at perfectly centred picture of the Ambass- on a Waterfall presents a playful image of the . DeAngelis ador Bridge, held behind a pane of Gerald Gladstone 14. Morning Flight Morning Flight strength and endurance. Standing tall studied at the Rhode Island School of running water. Rinterzo asks us to look The geometric sculpture of Gerald painted plate steel even in strong winter winds, these Design and earned his Master of Fine again, to study our own landscape, and Gladstone presents a striking 19’6” high flightless birds are searching for home Arts Degree from Syracuse University. to wonder about our location in this model of interdependence. and awaiting summer. Each penguin In 1976 he was selected to participate in particular place at this particular In Morning Flight we are presen- stands independently yet united with the Spectrum Canada, as part of the Cana- moment in time. ted with a complex balancing act. landscape and the community of three. dian art exhibition for the Montreal Each element retains an individual shape and character while remain- ing inseparably linked within a Joseph DeAngelis larger, more complicated surroun- Rinterzo reflection pool with coloured terrazzo spheres ding environment. The piece 16’ wide x 28’ long draws the viewer’s attention to the universal shapes of nature. Think of the perfect v-formation of Canada geese in flight, or the balanced internal divisions inside every orange. What powers this kind of geometry? Gladstone’s art represents a fascination with the idea of infinite natural order, “everything in its place and a place for everything.”

The Odette Sculpture Park ...a museum without walls Sculptures in the Odette Sculpture Park

1. Trees 10. Cordella 19. Tower Song 2. Space Plough II 11. Eve's Apple 20. Audio Corridor 3. Dancing Bear 12. Penguins on a Waterfall 21. Business Man on a Horse 4. The King and Queen 13. Rinterzo 22. Columns 5. Bell Measure 14. Morning Flight 23. Craft 6. Consolation 15. Tohawah 24. Consophia 7. Union Six 16. Tembo 25. Anne 8. The Garden 17. Chicken and Egg 9. Flying Men 18. Neish Do-Dem (Two Marks)

In 1998 Windsor was named the Sculpture Capital of Canada by the Sculptor’s Society of Canada because of its interest in and dedication to art in public spaces, particularly the support and development of the Odette Sculpture Park.

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Sculptures in other Windsor locations... City Hall: Space Composition, Red (Provincial Building) – Haydn Davies, Inukshuk (City Hall Square) – Paulette Hunt and Matt Beasley, Ukrainian Head – Peter Kulyk, The Kiss – Ian Lazarus; Cleary International Centre: Me and My Love – M.B. Zoran; Coventry Gardens: The Sisters – Morton Katz; Ford City Parkette: Generations – Mark Williams; Vision Corridor: Lady – Joe Rosenthal, Ribbon of Friendship – Yin Xiaofeng; Windsor Airport: Homage to a Higher Power – Al Green, From – Carl Tacon; Windsor Civic Green: Tower of Freedom – Ed Dwight; Windsor Public Library: Guitar Man – Al Green

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The Odette Sculpture Park ...a museum without walls Anne Harris Derrick Stephen Morton Katz and designs from the west coast. Ani- Anne Harris was born in Woodstock, Hudson Morton Katz began his career as an Morton Katz mal, human and characteristic shapes are Anne Harris Chicken and Egg Tohawah Ontario in 1928. She studied at Central Derrick Hudson was born in the United architect, and held a professorship at the Chicken: steel industrial chain, painted interwoven into both poles making them steel, polyethylene metallic finish Technical School and the Ontario Coll- Kingdom and moved to Canada as a University of Toronto, Faculty of Archi- 18’ x 1-1/2’ x 12’ unique. The ovoid, a flattened oval two pieces, 38’ high, 10’ base Egg: white marble ege of Art. Her work has been featured child. He earned a Bachelor of History tecture for ten years. During that time, 3’6” long, 1’6” diameter shape, is intermingled and repeated in in nearly 40 exhibitions across North Degree before completing studies at the sculpture became a natural, creative many figures. It is one of the most America and is included in over 100 Ontario College of Art and Design. His extension of his profession. He has distinctive shapes in the Pacific Coast private and public collections. These artwork focuses on wildlife, because he exhibited at major Toronto galleries First People’s art. include the Albright Knox Gallery, the finds the animal form dynamic, diver- including the John Black Aird Gallery, Canadiana National Capital Collection, sified and, tragically, disappearing. the Sculptor’s Society of Canada Gallery, Outdoor Sculpture at Rideau Hall (the “I hope to make people aware and con- the Koffler Gallery and the Ontario official residence of the Governor cerned about animals in the wild and to Association of Architects Gallery. His General of Canada), and the Chong- assist in channeling this concern into work is featured in private collections quing Fine Art Museum in China. greater animal protection efforts.” across the United States and Canada and Anne Harris has won Ontario Society of has also appeared at the Art Dialogue Wilmer Nadjiwon and Harold Rice Artists awards on two occasions and 16. Tembo Gallery in Buffalo, New York as well as Neish Do-Dem exhibited her work throughout Canada, Te mb o, a family of elephants, has been the Vineland Sculpture Garden in connected somehow, these two comic (Two Marks) Ontario white pine the United States and Europe. christened with the Swahili name for Vineland, Ontario. Katz continues to partners, tied together by the weird two pieces, 50’ high African elephants. The three elephants work in the field of architecture while mystery of nature and one of the oldest 15. Tohawah reflect the strength and loyalty of a maintaining lecturing positions at the riddles in the books. In a very literal way, Anne Harris’s mother for her children. The massive Avenue Art School, and the Art Centre sculpture represents a “fusion” of mother elephant stands solidly, guarding at Central Technical School. Wilmer Nadjiwon untamed strength and precise elegance. her youngsters, providing protection and Wilmer Nadjiwon lives with his family Splitting her time between the studio care. Weighing almost as much as 80 17. Chicken and Egg in Tobermory, Ontario but has spent and the metal foundry, Harris compli- people or 6 automobiles, this enormous Morton Katz’s whimsical Chicken and many years travelling to Vancouver ments the skill of her sculptor’s vision mother elephant is one of the largest Egg continues the artist’s fascination with Island studying the art of the totem pole. with industrial tools such as blowtorches, bronze elephants in the world. The minimalist sculpture in suspension, and He has exhibited his work in Canada, forklifts, electric buffers and sand triangular shaped ears help to distinguish also completes an interesting trio or Europe and the United States. He was blasters. Out of these fiery forces, she the sculpture as an African elephant. “flock” of bird-inspired artworks in the born at Cape Croker Reserve on the creates works of delicate Odette Sculpture Park. Compared with Bruce Peninsula and is committed to balance and grace. Harris’ massive Tohawah and the preserving his people’s heritage and Tohawah is named momentarily arrested take off of tradition. with a Native language Gladstone’s geometric Morning Flight, word for swans and again Chicken and Egg focuses more on a Harold Rice displays this trademark child-centered perspective. This Harold Rice, a Coast Salish Status duality. The polished sculpture presents kids with a strange Indian, was born on his parent’s fishing metallic surfaces and the sort of feathered friend, built out of the boat in Canoe Pass, off Vancouver Island magnificent height of odd, but instantly recognizable medium in British Columbia. He studied carving this sculpture suggest of a gigantic industrial chain. Katz with the renowned Native master carver that we are looking at a himself collected every one of the five Norman John, a descendant of the chief marvel of modern hundred sprocket links that make up who welcomed the first white explorers engineering, while the the chain and the whole bird has been to Vancouver Island. Rice’s carvings Native title and the pure lovingly welded into a shape that have been exhibited in Toronto, at the elemental shape of the displays a balance between a good sense McMichael Canadian Art Collection, intertwining lines speak of humour and a carefully considered the National Arts Centre and the of a return to the natural Derrick Stephen Hudson use of proportion and tension. Tandanya Aboriginal Art Institute. subject and shape. Tembo The fragile chicken is juxtaposed with In this representation, bronze the solidity of its egg which is carved out 18. Neish Do-Dem mother elephant 9’1” high current trends are two babies 2’3” high of solid marble. The two make an inter- (Two Marks) reversed. Nature is esting pair, so entirely different from Neish Do-Dem or Two Marks, reflects served by technology, The ears of an elephant are like finger- each other that it is difficult to under- the art and legends of the Pacific Coast allowing the sculptor to release an prints – they are different on each stand how they could also be so directly First Peoples adapted to the present in essentialized idea into a form of massive elephant and are used by scientists for related to each other in a sculpture or in Southwestern Ontario. Each totem pole size and scope. identification. life. Yet we do know that they are presents brightly coloured story images

The Odette Sculpture Park ...a museum without walls Ted Bieler William McElcheran important businessman seems out of Ted Bieler, sculptor and Professor of Fine William McElcheran was born in 1927 place in this pose. Is he the Ian Lazarus Art at , is the creator of Audio Corridor in Hamilton, Ontario. In 1947 he contemporary descendant of the many privately owned and public sculp- stainless steel graduated from the Ontario College of triumphant returning generals or war tures. Among them are Triad on Front two pieces, 20’6” in length Art in Toronto and was awarded the leaders of the past, who would be the Street in Toronto, Canyons at the Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal. As the traditional subject of horse and rider Toronto Transit Commission’s Wilson chief designer for Bruce Brown and sculpture? Has his briefcase become the Station, Tetra in Portsmouth Harbour, Brisely Architects, he planned and weapon of our contemporary heroes? Kingston and Wave Breaking at the designed 23 churches and university Where does he fit? As many critics have Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. buildings. In 1973 he formed Deaduls noted however, McElcheran’s subjects are The Columns poured concrete Born in Kingston, Bieler studied art at Designs, a company dedicated to the not just the focus of his jokes, they are four pieces Cranbrook Academy of Art, and has integration of decorative sculpture also under his protection: “We get a 30’ high been teaching, exhibiting and making within architectural planning. His sharp sense that each of these figures is public sculpture since graduating. His life, found in plant, mineral and animal landscape to take advantage of its famous business men with pork pie hats cared for by the sculptor, wrapped in an interest in metal casting processes has led life, twists its way up Tower Song, inherent beauty while drawing on his are found in corporate collections all unseen cocoon and that we, as viewers, him to experiment with new technol- suggesting potentially infinite progres- sculptural languages and forms to over the world and reflect his philosophy are being asked to care for them too.” ogies in his own sculpture and to work sions of form ascending upward, descen- augment the dialogue. of “New Humanism” in both style and with Mr. L.L. Odette in establishing a ding into the ground below or branching utility. He has produced public 22. The Columns foundry in the Odette Centre for out from it. 24. Consophia commissions in Canada, the USA, The four entrance columns that stand at Sculpture at York University. The sculptor’s fascination with ancient The sculpture symbolically reflects Germany, Italy, and Japan. William the eastern section of the Odette monuments, those of the Maya and the communication across borders – stand- McElcheran died in 1999. Sculpture Park serve an important public possession and available for all 19. Tower Song Incas in particular, highlights the art of ing as it does on the international border double duty. Though they work on one citizens to appreciate. They staged Shapes that embody the gesture of a line marking a place by delineating a point of between the United States and Canada. level as an elegant but understated massive civic festivals for the performing drawn freehand in space oscillate be- view, a view that here embraces the free Consophia refers to wisdom among marker to welcome viewers, the columns arts (drama, music, recitals of epic tween the walls of a spiraling cruciform flow of a river at the crossing between friends – linking this sculpture with the also provide the garden with a strong poetry) and their architects constructed obelisk. Interest in the interplay of two metropolises. geometric syllabics of the Native historical anchor. They recall the first ingenious public gathering places that formal and random elements in nature is Ojibway script, the sculptor presents a roots of what might be considered a were both beautiful and functional. The reflected in this sculpture. The spiral of Ian Lazarus form which represents sharing among public art movement and connect finest sculptors decorated these sites with Born in Toronto, Ontario in 1951, Ian friends. The English translation of the Windsor’s “museum without walls” to an the best of their statuary so that all Lazarus started his sculpture career in ancient classical heritage of western art members of the city could share in 1972 as a stone carver. His work has and culture. Athenian cultural achievements. The Ian Lazarus been displayed in the National Gallery Consophia The columns are recognizably Columns of the Odette Sculpture Park Ted Bieler painted steel, stainless steel chain Tower Song of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur; the Art patterned on the Ionic order of Greek may look like the simplest structures in 18’ high cast aluminum Gallery of Hamilton; the University of architecture. The rolled volutes of the the garden, but they summon up many 25’ high Moncton Gallery, New Brunswick; capital at the top of each column and of the most important ideals of Western Butler House Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland; the rounded base on which each pillar culture and remind us that a public and the Japan International Contem- rests are the clearest identifying features. commitment to art is certainly not a porary Art Fair in Yokohama. His work This style was prevalent during the high new idea and may in fact even be a is prized by private and public collectors classical period of Ancient Greece in the necessary component of any “golden” William McElcheran including the National Gallery of Business Man fifth century BC and was featured society. Malaysia, the Town of Freshford in on a Horse prominently in the design of major Kilkenny County, Ireland and the bronze religious and secular buildings. Leo Mol 9’ high University of Windsor. Intermingled with the more severe Doric Leo Mol (Leonid Molodoshanin) was style of column, these structures can still born in 1915 in Polonne, , a 20. Audio Corridor be seen in the famous buildings of the village full of potters, in an area rich in The intent of this work is to create a Acropolis in Athens. red clay. Consequently, when Mol dynamic interaction between the 21. Business Man on a Horse The fifth century BC is traditionally began his art studies in Leningrad, he sculpture, its setting or site, and the In Business Man on a Horse, William known as the “golden age” of Greece. was already an experienced clay model- viewer who engages it. The sculpture McElcheran presents us with the now During this time, under the leadership ler. He initially planned to become a deals with a lyrical phrasing of space, Ojibway is sharing knowledge and famous figure of his befuddled of Pericles, the Athenians produced a painter, but it soon became clear that his inviting the viewer to move through it as inspired interaction. This translation businessman awkwardly seated on his remarkable civilization that remains the destined path lay in sculpture. one would move through music if it further expands this sculpture metaphor “trusted steed.” The work seems to envy of many modern cultures. As the Mol would go on to study in Berlin could be made visible. The sculptor of communication across culture, bring the viewer into a kind of shared world’s first functioning democracy, the and The Hague before moving to attempts to restructure the existing location and time. compassionate joke. McElcheran’s self- Athenians believed that art should be a Winnipeg in 1948.

The Odette Sculpture Park ...a museum without walls His first sculpting 23. Craft commission was a The recent landing of Ben Smit’s Craft portrait of the marks a significant kind of departure for composer Borodin the Odette Sculpture Park. In no in Leningrad. Since uncertain terms, Smit’s spaceship blasts Scott Hughes by then Mol has Leo Mol the Park into its first close encounter Anne executed comm- Anne with popular culture. bronze with selected patina issioned works 4’ high Though it may seem to have a futur- across the globe. istic focus, the piece is perhaps more Among them are interested in recalling the past. It portrait sculptures remembers a simpler period of North of John Diefen- American history, a more innocent, by Lou-Ann Barnett, and Lou-Ann Barnett, by baker, Dwight D. probably more naïve time, when a flying Eisenhower, and saucer could activate feelings of curiosity, . terror, humour and wonder, all at the In addition to his same time. Craft is equal parts comedy sculptures of and compassion, a perfect contemporary Chicken and Egg famous world cliché. It is certainly silly — the cockpit figures, Mol has looks like it might be made out of an sculpted wildlife, religious subjects and completely eliminate harshness and upside down stainless steel mixing bowl the human form. He has also created a tension from the scene. — but the work also asks some serious number of stained-glass windows for questions. commissions in , British Ben Smit What is lost when our fantasies are Columbia and Ontario. Ben Smit was educated at the Ontario proven false? Where do we turn when Mol is a member of the Royal College of Art (OCA) and earned his “Unidentified” Flying Objects are Canadian Academy, and in 1989 he was honours diploma in 1982. During this sighted everyday, so recognizable that appointed an officer of the Order of time he also participated in OCA’s Off they’re almost boring? As technology Canada. The world-renowned Leo Mol Campus Studio Program in New York marches on, “clarifying” the world for Sculpture Garden, which opened in City. His work has recently been us, what happens to our small mysteries, 1992, displays over 300 of Mol’s works displayed in several solo exhibitions the grainy Sasquatch photographs and in Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park. In across Canada. His one-man shows have the barely decipherable radio echoes that 2002 Mol was honoured by having his been hosted by the Mercer Union and make that world an interesting, kind of sculpture Lumberjacks featured on a the Cold City Gallery in Toronto; Plug crazy place to live? Canadian postage stamp. In Inc. of Winnipeg, Manitoba; AKA of Craft hovers over these issues, but if Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Artspace in you’re optimistic you can read the 25. Anne Peterborough, Ontario; and the Galerie sculpture as an imaginative take off, a Leo Mol has devoted a great deal of his Sans Nom in Moncton, New Brunswick. call to remember the possibilities con- creative energy to life-sized figures of For more than a decade his sculpture has tained in our own creativity. Craft may young women. His vast work in this been prominently featured in major be interested in other worlds but it is not genre has been compared to that of group exhibitions throughout the a conspiracy theory ridden episode of Katz’s Morton except Kavanaugh, Kevin all photographs in this publication by Credit: * Photo Italian artist Giacomo Manzu, and it Toronto area. Ben Smit currently lives the X- Files. For this sculpture the truth often recalls the blithe, stylized figures of and works in Toronto. is “in here” long before it is “out there.” French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. However, Mol’s sculptures of young women are unmistakably his own. Ben Smit Craft Observe the prominent contours of aluminum, wood, neon Anne’s hair, flowing gently and commun- 20’ diameter x 7’ high icating with the soft curves of her arms and body, a hallmark of Mol’s work in this genre. As is common among Mol’s sculptures of women, Anne is com- fortable and carefree in her surroun- dings. The attitude of the sitter and the artist’s interpretation are combined to

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