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About the Sculpture Park We are pleased to present the 2008-2009 exhibit featuring four new contemporary sculptures by Newburyport, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Canadian artists. David Davies, Derek Riley, Rob Hitzig, and Simon Larochelle join the current four sculptures on exhibit at Somerby's Landing by Michael Alfano (on exhibit for another year), and sculptures by Wendy Klemperer, Robert Motes, and Dale Rogers that have been gifted to the City of Newburyport. The most recent acquisition, Robert Motes' sculpture, An Imagined Place, was permanently gifted to the City of Newburyport in 2006 by the generous donation of the Newburyport Art Association. Two of the sculptures in this year's exhibit by Rob Hitzig and Simon Larochelle, were purchased from Montpelier, Vermont's SculptCycle 2008 to be installed along Newburyport's new 2009-2010 Clipper City Rail Trail. Michael Alfano's sculpture will also be purchased for installation on the Clipper City Rail Trail. This exciting 6th annual exhibit shows a playful and conceptual ensemble of sculptures for contemplation. Whether adding, taking away, or recycling sculptural material, the work will get you thinking about the artist's intention, which touches on the imaginative and whimsical. Curator, Jay Havighurst, is pleased to present this ongoing sculptural exhibit at Somerby's Landing. Complementing the rich historical waterfront, Somerby's Landing Sculpture Park provides a contemporary venue for new ideas in forms that interact with the waterfront and stimulate viewers both young and old. The exhibit is open all day, every day, year round, free of charge, and is handicapped accessible. Over 250,000 people will see the sculptures during the year-long exhibit. Somerby's Landing Sculpture Park is a participating gallery in the Newburyport ArtWalk. Come and enjoy! Support for the Annual Exhibit is provided by Strem Chemicals, Inc., the Firehouse Center for the Arts, and the Newburyport Art Association. The exhibit is supported in part by a grant from the Newburyport Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Special thanks to the City of Newburyport and the Newburyport Waterfront Trust. The group organizing the exhibit led by Curator, Jay Havighurst, includes support from the Gregg Smith, former Executive Director of the Firehouse Center for the Arts and Geordie Vining, Senior Project Manager for the City of Newburyport. This website and the sculpture park signage are designed by Jay and Lynne Havighurst of Artfluence. Brief History Joyce Audy Zarins coordinated the first annual exhibit, with support from Jay Havighurst and other members of the Firehouse Visual Arts Committee as well as the Newburyport Waterfront Trust and the City, which included three sculptures by artists William Brayton, Joseph Landry and Antoinette Prien Schultze installed in October of 2003. Inception of the exhibit was supported by then Mayor Alan Lavender and by Kathleen Miller, then Executive Director of the Firehouse Center for the Arts. The third exhibit, led by Somerby's Landing Sculpture Park's Curator, Jay Havighurst, opened in July 2005 and featured eight sculptures by artists Michael Guadagno, Wendy Klemperer, Katherine Knotts and Ron Garand, Robert Motes, Gary Rathmell, and Dale Rogers. The fourth exhibit, led by Somerby's Landing Sculpture Park's Curator, Jay Havighurst, opened in July 2006 and featured eight sculptures by artists Wendy Klemperer, Robert Motes, Kim Radochia, Dale Rogers, Edward Walsh, and Glenn Zweygardt. The fifth exhibit, led by Somerby's Landing Sculpture Park's Curator, Jay Havighurst, opened in July 2007 and featured seven sculptures by artists Michael Alfano, Wendy Klemperer, Rob Lorenson, Robert Motes, Dale Rogers, and David Skora. About the Sculptures and the Artists The show of eight sculptures includes an exciting range of work by the following sculptors:
Following this year's extended stay at Somerby's Landing Sculpture Park, Peace Offering will be purchased for installation on the Clipper City Rail Trail. Alfano lives in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and has been sculpting limited edition figures, monuments, and philosophical pieces in bronze, resin, and cold cast copper for ten years. He studied at the Art Students League of New York with an emphasis on life size sculpture and anatomy, and at Boston University's Sculpture Program. Alfano is a member of the Copley Society of Boston, New England Sculpture Society, and the National Sculpture Society, as well as other professional affiliations. He is currently working on a sculpture for the Boston Marathon starting line in Hopkinton.
Originally from Cleveland, Ohio David is a local sculptor, lighting artist and residential architect living in Newburyport since 2000. A 1984 BFA graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, he received his Masters degree in architecture from Harvard University in 1989. Influenced by the scale, abstraction and rhythms provided by the 20th C. industrial aesthetic as well as his background in residential architecture David’s sculpture examines the potential of repetitive form as an expressive device. Primarily working with wood his work utilizes simple geometric form as means of examining the complex influence and impact of the machine upon 21st century life. David is a recipient of a 2004 Massachusetts Cultural Council grant and is an organizer and annual participant of the Outdoor Sculpture at Maudslay Exhibit. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, The Daily News and The Merrimack River Current.
Dog Walker was purchased from Montpelier, Vermont's SculptCycle 2008 to be installed along Newburyport's new 2009-2010 Clipper City Rail Trail. Rob is a self-taught artist living in Montpelier, Vermont. He developed his woodworking skills while creating furniture as a hobbyist and began to focus on sculpture to find better ways to accentuate the natural beauty of wood.
Will He was purchased from Montpelier, Vermont's SculptCycle 2008 to be installed along Newburyport's new 2009-2010 Clipper City Rail Trail. Simon is a Canadian artist living in Montreal. He has studied and worked as a sculptor since 1998, primarily with metal, stone, and wood. In addition to traveling around Canada to create and install sculptures, he has worked in Spain, Mexico, and France.
Motes, a sculptor and designer from Cornish, Maine, founded Run Run Studio in 1999. Run Run Studio is one of the few artisan furniture manufacturers producing original sculptural furniture designs. Motes studied at the University of Pennsylvania, American College of Paris, and studied sculptural design at Maryland Institute College of Art. He has exhibited extensively on the East Coast.
Riley is from Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. While attending Bridgewater State College, he was fortunate enough to study under Rob Lorenson. Rob took him under his wing and taught him everything needed to create art. Since then Riley has developed his own sense of form and space - creating works that are on the edge of movement and form.
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