A STAMFORD DOWNTOWN OUTDOOR SCULPTURE 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 sculptures 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: New York 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 www.stamford-downtown.com ART IN PUBLIC PLACES | Artists and Sculptures SAC CAPITAL ADVISORS, L.P. presents 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 New York City, 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. UNFURLING Sponsored by Bar Rosso ISIS II UNFURLING WITH SEEDS Sponsored by Sponsored by Stamford Town Center Stamford Town Center 4 5 www.stamford-downtown.com ART IN PUBLIC PLACES | Artists and Sculptures SAC CAPITAL ADVISORS, L.P. presents 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 United States, 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. KONNECTED Sponsored by BRANDI First County Bank Sponsored by The Campus and 1937 West Main VALENTINE TWO Sponsored by Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa 6 7 www.stamford-downtown.com ART IN PUBLIC PLACES | Artists and Sculptures SAC CAPITAL ADVISORS, L.P. presents 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. CLARITY Sponsored by Malkin Properties SPROUT PROUD WOMAN Sponsored by Sponsored by Bildner Capital Corp. & GB Parking Seaboard Properties, Inc. 8 9 www.stamford-downtown.com ART IN PUBLIC PLACES | Artists and Sculptures SAC CAPITAL ADVISORS, L.P. presents 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.