A STAMFORD DOWNTOWN OUTDOOR EXHIBIT ART IN PUBLIC PLACES | Summer 2013 SAC CAPITAL ADVISORS, L.P. presents

Dear Friends: ALEX BARRETT It is with great pleasure that we present the 20th annual sculpture exhibit, Downtown Abstractions. The exhibit includes a collection of 43 on loan to the City of Stamford from 18 artists whose works will be on display Alex Barrett has been actively working in metal sculpture since the throughout the Downtown and at the Stamford Town Center. age of 14. As an apprentice to his father, Bill Barrett, Alex developed the ability to bring an idea to life, gaining an intimate knowledge of This commemorative catalogue is a tribute to an extraordinary collaborative fabrication. Unlike most bronze artists, Alex’s work is typically not cast, process among Stamford Downtown, the City, the corporate community and art aficionados. Our sincere appreciation goes to Ernie Orgera and the City of but is created; cut, joined, inflated, and soldered by the artist’s hands Stamford’s Operational Team. Our many generous participating sponsors are and then executed on a large scale. directly responsible for ensuring that our public art program flourishes. A very special thanks to our Presenting Sponsor, SAC Capital Advisors, L.P. for their Barrett’s work is on public display at the University of Chattanooga extraordinary commitment to outdoor art. It is with deep appreciation that we and at various locations in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has exhibited in recognize our Gold, Silver, Bronze and Contributing Sponsors: Gold Sponsors: and Chicago, as well as Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Bar Rosso, Malkin Properties, Reckson, a Division of SL Green Realty Corp., Seaboard Properties, Inc., Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa, Stamford Town Oklahoma, Tennessee and Switzerland. Center; Silver Sponsors: The Campus and 1937 West Main, Emmett & Glander, Attorneys at Law, First County Bank, NBCUniversal, Silver Golub & Teitell LLP; Bronze Sponsors: A. Vitti Construction, Inc., Gibraltar Management Co., Inc., Grade A ShopRite, MarLo Associates, People’s United Bank, Purdue Pharma L.P., RBS, RMS Companies, LLC, June & Rolf Rosenthal, Stamford Hospital, UBS; Contributing Sponsors: The Stamford Advocate, Bildner Capital Corp., GB Parking, 95.9 THE FOX, STAR 99.9 and Happyhaha Studio.

Heartfelt thanks to Eileen Heckerling, exhibit curator, whose tireless research, energy and ideas were instrumental in making this exhibit a reality and of course our gratitude to the team of artists who loaned their sculptures for this incomparable exhibit.

Come Downtown and enjoy this excellent show.

Sincerely,

LYRIC Sponsored by June & Rolf Rosenthal

Michael A. Pavia Sandy Goldstein Randall M. Salvatore, Mayor, City of Stamford President, DSSD Chairman, DSSD 2 3

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BILL BARRETT DAVID BOYAJIAN

Born and raised in CT, David Boyajian Bill Barrett, one of today’s foremost sculptors, has been exhibiting his received his B.F.A. from Alfred unique metal sculptures and abstract paintings in numerous solo and University and M.F.A. from the Rhinehart group exhibitions in the US and internationally since the mid 1960’s. His School of Sculpture in MD. He is a sculptures of fabricated aluminum, bronze or steel address the interplay Co-Founder of the Sculpture Barn in New Fairfield, CT and former Director between positive and negative space with grace, elegance and exquisite of Sculpture Studies at Silvermine balance. His bronzes have been compared to “music in metal.” School of Art in New Canaan, CT. He has taught extensively at numerous He has had numerous solo and duo shows, mostly recently in Santa colleges and universities throughout the Fe, Boca Raton and , as well as group exhibitions in Italy, state. His large-scale steel sculptures of Germany, Japan and Bulgaria. His work is in museum collections including graceful sweeping curves amid complex seed forms seem to grow out of the the 911 Memorial and Museum in New York, the Aldrich Museum in landscape they were designed at and Ridgefield, CT, the Cleveland Museum of Art and dozens more, as well as for. Dicotyledon numerous municipal and university collections. Barrett is frequently called Sponsored by upon to produce large-scale sculpture by commission including Best An award winning sculptor, Boyajian Gibraltar Management Co., Inc. Products Corp., Dell Corporation, Austin; Hitachi Corp, Japan; Neiman has won dozens of commission projects Marcus Dallas; Saint Vincent Hospital, Santa Fe, among many. both public and corporate and has exhibited extensively at museums and sculpture parks including the Robert Moses Sculpture Garden at the Lincoln Center Campus of Fordham University in NYC, and numerous private collections including Pepsico in Purchase, NY, the Maritime Museum in Norwalk, CT, and the homes of Dr. Ruth Westheimer in NYC and President and Mrs. George H.W. Bush in Kennebunkport, among others.

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CURT BRILL CAROLE EISNER

Painter and sculptor, Carole Born in the Bronx, New York, Curt began his serious pursuit of an art Eisner has worked with scrap career while attending Cornell University. His work there showcased and recycled metal for 40 years, drawings, ceramic work and silk screening. While drawing has been his creating elegant, abstract forms first and enduring love, professionally he has been most noted for his welded in steel. Her larger-than-life widely collected 3 dimensional work – ceramics and bronze. Being a works and small scale sculptures people watcher with a keen eye, a potent sense of humor and an easy have been exhibited in dozens demeanor, it is easy to see how his personal style has evolved. His work of public parks, corporate plazas, has now been met with wide appeal by individual collectors within cultural centers, museums and the , Europe and Japan. Along with Stamford, upcoming waterfronts all along the northeast exhibits include Japan and Florida. corridor in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Birdsong Florida, as well as in Belgium, Sponsored by France and Japan. RBS

Eisner is represented in private, public and corporate collections, including the Guggenheim. She currently has a monumental sculpture in Tramway Plaza in Manhattan at the entrance and exit to the Roosevelt Island Tram.

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DENIS FOLZ JENNIFER GEORGE

Born in Wausau, WI, Denis Folz Jennifer George brings a sense of passion, spirit and joy to all of her left for NYC to attend the Fashion endeavors. Working out of the Sculpture Barn in New Fairfield, CT, Ms. Institute of Technology where he George has been creating metal sculpture in bronze, steel and glass received his Bachelor’s Degree for the past two years. Her work is inspired by the symbolic and iconic in Fine Arts. He went on to work elements of nature: earth, air, fire and water. These elements are trans- and study painting with Ertugrul formed into sculptural forms through a poetic narrative. Sometimes Ates (master painter from Turkey). these narratives are abstract thoughts and visions of verse, simple and Folz worked as a designer through to the point, other times these narratives take on a symbolic realism the 80’s and most of the 90’s. that speaks to cultural unity as symbols of identity and strength. He relocated to Connecticut BROKEN LINES and began sculpting under the Sponsored by direction of David Boyajian in Bar Rosso 2009 at the Connecticut based Sculpture Barn.”My Sculptures,” he says, “are more about the space they take from their surroundings.” He has exhibited widely throughout the state. He currently has several sculptures on loan at the Governor’s residence in Hartford, CT. SEA WALL Sponsored by Reckson, a Division of SL Green Realty Corp.

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ED HADDAWAY DAVID HOSTETLER

For 65 years, David Hostetler’s Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Ed reputation as a celebrated sculptor Haddaway received a Bachelor’s has grown exponentially. His degree in Fine Arts at the works appear in over twenty-five University of New Mexico. After museums and galleries, including travelling around the country and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, doing graduate work in Texas, Massachusetts, Grounds for he decided to buy tools and get Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, to work. He has been making and the DeCordova Museum in prints and sculptures ever since. Lincoln, Massachusetts. Hostetler’s apparatus du mesmer Effigy II His work has been exhibited Sponsored by pieces grace numerous public Sponsored by Stamford Downtown collections from New Mexico to extensively around the country, is Seaboard Properties, Inc. Nantucket to the Netherlands, found in galleries and museums, and have been featured in films, and he has completed a number on television, and in newspapers of public commissions. and magazines. Hostetler’s unique treatment of the feminine form has Ed says, “I have been making earned him wide acclaim cross- things for as long as I can culturally. remember. The backyard of my childhood is littered with old He is the creator of a series of lumber, hammers, nails, and captivating and original works in exotic wood and bronze that honor holes, just for the fun of it.” from the house where the would-be shadow lives and celebrate the female form. THE DUO Sponsored by Sponsored by NBCUniversal People’s United Bank

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HOWARD KALISH JOSEPH KINNEBREW

Pursuing studies in art and sculpture, Howard Kalish attended Cooper Born in Tacoma, WA, Joseph Kinnebrew is an internationally recognized Union and the New York Studio School. He has been featured in sculptor, painter and author whose work is in the collections of major numerous one-person shows and group exhibitions. His works are also museums and many well-established private collections. His work has included in many public art collections nationally, including the Navy been exhibited at the Biennale in Florence, Italy, the Palm Beach Bien- Pier, Chicago; Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; Station Plaza Sculpture nale and The Walter Wickiser Gallery in New York, among others. Walk, NJ among many. In addition to exhibiting his sculpture, he has curated exhibits, and taught at several institutions, including Kinnebrew’s digital collages represent his continuing commitment to fifteen years at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He work that reflects the thoughts and observations of an important, ma- describes his work as being about “Growth and structure, the various ture, contemporary artist working across a wide range of media. New ways forms are put together and become themselves, in nature and the York Times critic William Zimmer has said, “His work is the 800-pound way we see it.” gorilla, impossible to ignore.”

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JOEY MANSON JOHN MERIGIAN

Joey Manson grew up traveling John Merigian grew up in urban Detroit in the midst of which he devel- extensively, living in major cities oped a passion for art, sculpture in particular. His work is centered on abroad and in rural South Carolina. the human figure as a means to express internal and external realities His background and interests led and relationships. It often involves multiple figures, with the placement him towards studies in art where of the figures being choreographed in close connection to the site. sculpture became his primary interest. He lives and maintains In their simplicity, the figures are accessible. Recent site specific public a studio practice on a small farm works include “Plaza Promenade” (2009) and “A Four Phrase Move- between Clemson and Six Mile CARRY FORWARD ment” (2010). Two monumental sculptures were permanently installed while holding a faculty position Sponsored by in 2011: in Cassopolis, MI, and in Lacks Park, Grand Rapids, MI. at Clemson University in SC. He Stamford Downtown received his M.F.A. from Alfred University and B.F.A. from Clemson. BE STILL AND KNOW Sponsored by Manson works with industrial RMS Companies, LLC materials, often depicting the natural environment. “My sculpture,” he says, “becomes an exploration of the built environment HOMAGE TO and systems ecology.” His work L’ HOMME QUI has been exhibited in the Chicago MARCHE Sculpture Exhibit and Rosen Sponsored by Reckson, a Division Outdoor Sculpture Competition. NEW AGAIN of SL Green Realty Sponsored by Corp. Malkin Properties

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REUBEN NAKIAN KEVIN ROBB

Reuben Nakian was a giant of twentieth-century modernist American Over the past three decades, sculpture. His art-historical stride extended from an apprenticeship renowned Colorado metal sculptor with and a studio assistantship with Gaston Lachaise, to Kevin Robb has made his mark on the his role as a major participant in the discourse surrounding Abstract national and international art scene. Expressionism, particularly with Arshile Gorky and Willem DeKooning. With a unique style and consummate During his seventy-five year career as an artist, he established a welding quality that have defined and profound oeuvre based almost entirely on energetic, daring, and differentiated his work. often-erotic abstractions of the female figure. A prolific sculptor in stone, terra cotta, plaster, steel, and bronze, Nakian remained a vital Today, Kevin Robb creates creative force until his death in 1986. contemporary stainless steel and bronze sculptures, magnificent works crafted by Kevin since he suffered a massive stroke in 2004. Although challenged physically in the creation of his sculptures, his ideas remain free flowing and his commitment to quality Scatole Sponsored by is as high as ever - with a resolve that MarLo Associates offers a physical testament to the dedication, expertise, and amazing recovery of this remarkable artist.

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BUILDING BLOCKS VALMORA Sponsored by Sponsored by UBS First County Bank

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DAVID STROMEYER BOAZ VAADIA

David Stromeyer is a nationally recognized Vermont and Texas based Born in , Boaz Vaadia is an internationally known sculptor who artist known for his large-scale, abstract and colorful sculptures. works primarily in stone and bronze. He moved to New York in 1975 Stromeyer’s current solo show of four major outdoor works at the from Israel to fulfill a grant from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts in Concord, MA will run for a He studied at the Pratt Institute and embarked on an illustrious career year. His sculpture is in museum, municipal, university, corporate and as a sculptor in NY where he lives. private collections across the country, including the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. He has exhibited widely including Vaadia’s impressive body of work is included in many private collec- exhibits in Charleston, Boston, and New York City. “Fugue” is inspired tions, galleries and museums including the Time Warner Center in New by the rhythms, patterns, and their implied movement in a three voice York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of fugue. Modern Art in San Francisco, Hakone Museum in Japan and the Israel Museum in .

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JULIAN VOSS-ANDREAE

Julian Voss-Andreae is a German-born sculptor based in Portland, OR. Starting out as a painter, he later changed course and studied physics at the universities of Berlin, Edinburgh and Vienna. He pursued graduate research in quantum physics, participating in a seminal experiment demonstrating quantum behavior for the largest objects thus far.

He moved to the U.S. in 2000 with his passion for art rekindled and graduated from Art College in 2004, quickly gaining critical attention. His Unraveling Collagen sculpture is heavily influenced by his Sponsored by background in science, capturing NBCUniversal the attention of multiple institutions and collectors in the U.S and abroad. Recent commissions include the Scripps Institute and Rockefeller University.

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37 1351 SCULPTURE EXHIBIT MAP Wash. Bank Blvd First County

ALEX BARRETT HOWARD KALISH People’s Prospect St United 20 19 1 Lyric 23 Knot Bank 23

I Latham Avon JOSEPH KINNEBREW 41 Park BILL BARRETT Theatre E 2 Isis II 24 Balancing Act Bar Forest St The Rosso 21 Memorializing Memory Blvd 10 4 25 Franklin St CVS Spring St DAVID BOYAJIAN Parc Dicotyledon JOEY MANSON Blvd 3 36 Bedford Grove

Summer St The Unfurling Carry Forward Street 4 26 UConn UConn Ferguson Garage 5 Unfurling with Seeds 27 New Again Park Burlington Library Bedford St 13 Greyrock Pl *PERMANENT SCULPTURES IN Washington 17 3 6 28 Shift 1 STAMFORD DOWNTOWN Broad St CURT BRILL 29 Split JOHN BLAIR Trump napa 22 12 Macy’s Brandi Target One 6 Parc & co. Atlantic Landmark A Seated Lincoln Square JOHN MERIGIAN Palace BRIAN CLARKE Theatre Bowtie CAROLE EISNER 30 Be Still and Know Mill River Park Summer Bowtie Veteran’s Landmark 34 Park The Stamford Cone Street Majestic Park 40 43 Theatre 7 Birdsong 31 Homage to L’Homme B Square F Main St Garage Theatre 38 A Konnected Qui Marche J. SEWARD JOHNSON West 18 8 West Park Pl 11 G First 9 Valentine Two 32 An Intimate Stroll C Uninvited Advice County N Old A Reflective Journey II 1010 Columbus Bank 33 JAMES KNOWLES Wash. Park 15 C Main St H 42 Town Hall 8 Bank St Stamford W E DENIS FOLZ Blvd Town D Dancing Girl 28 D REUBEN NAKIAN 29 Center 10 Broken Lines Hotel 184 S PRINCE MONYO Bell Street Rippowam Zero Degrees Atlantic 11 Proud Woman 34 Sea Rhapsody* Garage MILHAILESCU-NASTUREL Park 31 30

12 Sea Wall Atlantic St E Mommy’s Shoes Bell St 13 Sprout KEVIN ROBB St. John’s 300 2 5 REUBEN NAKIAN West Main St Government Basilica 39 Atlantic 35 Building Blocks Center Tresser Blvd Stamford Media 9 JENNIFER GEORGE 36 Scatole F Hecuba Stamford 33 Center 16 Stamford Clarity Valmora Minerva 24 Plaza 14 37 G Tresser Blvd Marriott Blvd Purdue Hotel & Spa Sea Odyssey 75 Pharma H Post 26

Tresser Canal St ED HADDAWAY DAVID STROMEYER MARTHA PETTIGREW O ce 400 Atlantic Apparatus du Mesmer 38 Fugue Federal St 15 Washington I Gossip Stamford 16 From the House Where the Towers 25 Would-Be Shadow Lives BOAZ VAADIA 35 UBS 17 Meeting Mr. Wolfe 39 Ba’al with Cat 7 RBS North State St The Reinvention of Broken 40 Yizhaq with Cat B 18 Greenwich Ave

Dreams I-95 JULIAN VOSS-ANDREAE

DAVID HOSTETLER 41 Cubist Woman South State St 19 Asherah II 42 Reclining Woman (Sphinx) Transportation 20 The Duo 43 Unraveling Collagen Center 21 Effigy II 22 Monumental Cyclades 27 Metro 14 Center First Stamford 32 22 Place 24

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PRESENTING SPONSOR

GOLD SPONSORS SILVER SPONSORS Bar Rosso The Campus and 1937 West Main Malkin Properties Emmett & Glander, Attorneys at Law Reckson, a Division of First County Bank SL Green Realty Corp. NBCUniversal Seaboard Properties, Inc. Silver Golub & Teitell LLP Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa Stamford Town Center CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS Bildner Capital Corp. GB Parking BRONZE SPONSORS A. Vitti Construction, Inc. CURATOR Gibraltar Management Co., Inc. Eileen Heckerling Grade A ShopRite MarLo Associates TECHNICAL DIRECTOR People’s United Bank Andrew Munce Purdue Pharma L.P. RBS INSTALLATION Team RMS Companies, LLC city of stamford June & Rolf Rosenthal Ernest Orgera, Director of Operations Stamford Hospital Douglas Hoyt, Operations Supervisor UBS Hanlet Castillo Ralph Socci Dennis Surmaczewicz Ed Whitehead

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