“Over & Up”
by Robert Winkler
A Stamford Downtown
Outdoor Sculpture
Exhibit
Artists
Dear Friends:
& Sculptures
It is with great pleasure that we present the 23rd annual sculpture
exhibit, Downtown Expressions. The exhibit includes a collection
of 42 sculptures on loan to the City of Stamford from 16 artists
whose works will be on display throughout the Downtown and at
the Stamford Town Center.
This commemorative catalogue is a tribute to an extraordinary
collaborative process among Stamford Downtown, the city, the
corporate community and art aficionados. Our sincere appreciation
goes to Mayor David Martin and Ernie Orgera and the City of
Stamford’s Operational Team. Our many generous participating
sponsors are directly responsible for ensuring that our public art
program flourishes. It is with deep appreciation that we recognize
our Gold, Silver, Bronze and Contributing Sponsors: Gold Sponsors:
Reckson, a Division of SL Green Realty Corp., RMS Companies,
Stamford Town Center; Silver Sponsors: Bar Rosso, Empire
State Realty Trust, First County Bank, Steven Wise Associates/
Spinnaker Real Estate Group/The Campus and 1937 West Main,
The Whittingham Family; Bronze Sponsors: Steve Hoffman/Atlantic
Associates, Avon Theatre Film Center, Gibraltar Management Co.,
Inc., Grade A ShopRite, MarLo Associates, Inc., NBCUniversal,
People’s United Bank, Purdue Pharma L.P., The Rich Foundation,
Sacred Heart University’s Stamford Graduate Center at Landmark
Square, 66 Summer Street Distinctively Downtown Apartments,
600 Summer Street, UBS, A. Vitti Construction, Inc.; Contributing
Sponsors: The Advocate, Bildner Capital Corp., 95.9 The Fox,
GB Parking, 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.
Please come Downtown and enjoy this excellent show.
Sincerely,
David Martin
Mayor
City of Stamford
Sandy Goldstein
President
Stamford Downtown
Reyno A. Giallongo, Jr.
Chairman
Stamford Downtown
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BIG CAT
sponsored by The Whittingham Family
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NAVIGATOR
sponsored by
Purdue Pharma L.P.
Kevin Barrett
Spending his formative years in
NYC gives Kevin’s work an “urban
attitude” energy. He works with
industrial materials and adapts some
minimalist principals aiming to
“humanize” the unyielding material
into organic shapes creating a unified
ideal and harmonic vision. In his
sculpture, he strives to balance and
harmonize the many elements in life
that affect each of us as we move
through space and time.
Barrett is well documented; his
sculptures and wall reliefs have been
shown and can be found throughout the
United States, South America
and in Europe both in public and
private collections.
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Artists
jeffie brewer
Jeffie grew up in a small, rural town in
East Texas. As the son of eccentric junk
yard owners, he learned to spot beauty
in the mundane, developed an array of
industrial skills and discovered he had a
knack for drawing. Those early revelations
have influenced his artistic trajectory ever
since.
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Bernie Carreño
Bernie is a nationally renowned metal
sculptor whose work can be found in
museum, corporate, and private collections
across the United States and Canada. He is
known for his colorful, large-scale public
art. At the heart of his work is a striking
formal simplicity and attention to form.
He earned graduate and undergraduate
degrees in sculpture, metals, painting as
well as drawing, printmaking and jewelry
making. He has taught undergraduate and
graduate art classes from sculpture to
typography.
Carreño was awarded Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artists project grants in
2004 and 2006. He was until recently the
Sculpture Department Head for the Indianapolis Art Center where he taught classes
in all sculpture processes and mediums. He
was the founder and managing artist of the
IAC’s Biennial Iron Casting Symposium
which attracts universities and art institutions from across the nation.
Since his first exhibition in 1998, his work
has appeared in both solo and group shows
across the U.S., in Mexico and Japan.
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BOB
sponsored by
Avon Theatre Film Center
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FLIGHT
sponsored by
Empire State Realty Trust
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POP
sponsored by
Bar Rosso
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BUB
sponsored by
First County Bank
THRUST
sponsored by
Bildner Capital Corp.
and GB Parking
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Artists
Jeff Chyatte
Jeff is a Washington, DC native who began his artistic journey nearly 30 years
ago. He has combined his experience in cast and welded metals with graduate
study of Anatomy and Physiology to build works that express new perspectives
on composition and purpose.
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DALLIANCE
Sponsored by First County Bank
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ELEMENTS
Sponsored by A. Vitti Construction, Inc.
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Prowess
SPONSORED BY
Empire State Realty Trust
Chyatte has designed and fabricated a variety of works for private collectors,
galleries, museums, commercial buildings and municipalities. His creations have
been shown at Smithsonian affiliate Ann Marie Sculpture Park, National Airport,
the Art Museum of the Americas on the National Mall, and the Watergate Hotel.
Most recently, a large sculpture was installed at the entrance of Wolf Trap
National Park for the Performing Arts Amphitheater, National Park Service.
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SYMBIOSIS
SPONSORED BY
Reckson, a Division of
SL Green Realty Corp.
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VISION
SPONSORED BY
RMS Companies
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Artists
Jon Krawczyk
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Hailing from New Jersey; a graduate of Connecticut
College ‘92 – Jon studied fine art throughout Europe
before moving west. Early in his career, he apprenticed
with many acclaimed sculptors –icons of the second
generation of great American metal sculptors. Over the
course of the last 20 years, he has translated these life
experiences into his artwork and aesthetic approach.
His sculptures have been exhibited in galleries across
the United States and placed in prestigious private art
collections around the world.
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FIANNA
sponsored by
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BLAZE
SAFETY FIRST
sponsored by
Steven Wise
LAND BUOY
Associates/
sponsored by
Spinnaker Real
Stamford Downtown
Estate Group/
The Campus and 1937
West main
Roger Halligan
sponsored by
Stamford Downtown
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DD’S PARADISE
sponsored by
Gibraltar
Management Co., Inc.
Roger has been creating sculptures
professionally since the mid-seventies.
After graduating with an MFA with
honors in Studio Arts in 1977, he
moved to North Carolina where he
was an exhibit designer for the North
Carolina Zoological Park for 15 years.
In 1993, he was awarded the State
of North Carolina Governor’s Award
for Excellence for his work in the
design and construction of the Sonora
Desert Exhibit. He left the Zoo in
1992 to devote his time to his fine art
and sculptural hardscape work in the
private sector.
Halligan is also a founding member
and past president of the Tri State
Sculptors Educational Association Inc.
and current Vice President of the Mid
South Sculptural Alliance. His art is in
many public and private collections.
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Several of his most recent projects are large scale
site-specific public art installations at high profile
locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, SeattleBellevue region, Los Angeles-Beverly Hills,
Downtown Newark-NJ, and Downtown Manhattan.
PETIT GLACÉ
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WEDGED
sponsored by NBCUniversal
sponsored by
The Rich Foundation
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Artists
Dennis Leri
East Hampton, New York artist Dennis Leri is best known for large
geometric, abstract pieces, many of which are now in public spaces and
private collections. Through the free association of color, texture, scale and
form, his work defines itself in an intuitive manner. Curved shapes, clean
minimalist lines, and abstract designs are common themes. His sculpture
reflects the intense relationship between himself and the material. It is a
statement of his identity. He continues to learn about himself and his
material as the relationship progresses.
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Harry McDaniel
Harry has enjoyed working creatively
with his hands since he was a child.
His projects evolved from go-carts
and tree-forts to weavings, musical
instruments, and sculpture. He didn’t
see himself as an artist until his mid-20s
when he began to see sculpting as a
career path.
The expressive properties of steel and the techniques required to create
metal sculpture intrigue him.
Like Calder and Lassaw he
believes that the work has an inner
life, space within space and spaces
between the shapes.
Entering a public sculpture contest in
Stamford in 1984 was the impetus for
his sculpture career. His first public art
commission was in 1988, in Maryland.
During the past 33 years, he has
exhibited his work throughout the U.S.
at venues ranging from the District of
Columbia Arts Center, to the FSU
Museum of Fine Arts (FL). Through the
past decade, he has worked primarily in
metals to create outdoor sculptures for
public settings from Fort Meyers, Florida
to Rockville, Michigan.
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FAUN DANCE
sponsored by
Stamford Town Center
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PURE FORM #5
Sponsored by
Sacred Heart University’s
Stamford Graduate Center
at Landmark Square
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INTRUSION
SPONSORED BY
The Whittingham Family
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Permanent Sculptures in Stamford Downtown
John Blair
A Seated Lincoln
Brian Clarke
B The Stamford Cone
J. Seward Johnson
C Uninvited Advice
James Knowles
D Dancing Girl
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Ruth Aizuss Migdal
24 La Diva
25 Streaming
Gus & Lina Ocamposilva
26 Magic Rain
27 sunset
Bret Price
28 Elbow Room
29 Godot
30 Triad
David Skora
31 Baroque Composition
32 Bent
33 Black and Red
34 Tango
Fred Spaulding
35 Stamford Stack 2016
Eric Stein
36 Trap
37 Volatile Resolve
Wayne Vaughn
38 Piscis
39 Turning Point
Robert Winkler
40 Coming Around
41 Over and Up
42 Roll Over
43 Without Reservation
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Kevin Barrett
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2 navigator
Jeffie Brewer
3 Bob
4 Bub
5 Pop
Bernie Carreño
6 Flight
8 Thrust
Jeff Chyatte
9 Dalliance
10 Elements
11 Prowess
12 Symbiosis
13 Vision
Roger Halligan
14 Fianna
15 Land Buoy
16 Safety First
17 Wedged
Jon Krawczyk
18 Blaze
19 DD's Paradise
20 Petit Glacé
Dennis Leri
21 Pure Form #5
Harry McDaniel
22 Faun Dance
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“Over & Up”
by Robert Winkler
Downtown Expressions
Artists
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Ruth Aizuss Migdal
As a first generation American raised
in Chicago’s Jewish Ghetto, Ruth still
enjoyed access to a broad array of cultural
activities. She took advantage of all of
them. She received a BFA from the Art
Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the
University of Illinois. Trained as a painter,
by 1971 she became a sculptor exploring
the human torso. She worked with clay
from 1971 to 1990.
Gus & Lina Ocamposilva
Colombian-American artists, Gus and Lina
are a highly respected husband and wife
sculptor team. Born in Colombia, Gus
studied murals at Massana School of Barcelona and painting at Barcelona University.
During the last dozen years, they have
migrated to sculpture - abstract and
figurative, classic and contemporary.
They created their own style using bright
colors, empty spaces and balance.
After a workshop in mold making in 1990,
she switched to bronze, concentrating on
exploring the female torso in its many
complexities. The sculptures vary in size
and scale from larger than life to paper
weights as small as three inches in diameter. Her work has been widely exhibited,
collected and reproduced.
During the Spring of 2013, the Ocamposilvas
were invited to exhibit three of their 12
foot sculptures along the East River Park
Promenade in Manhattan. They have also
installed monumental sculptures in Chicago,
Atlanta, Miami and Palm Desert, among
others.
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LA DIVA
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SPONSORED BY
MarLo Associates, Inc.
MAGIC RAIN
SPONSORED BY People’s United Bank
SUNSET
SPONSORED BY grade a shoprite
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STREAMING
SPONSORED BY
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David Skora
Bret Price
Since 1979, Bret has been building heating
chambers around large pieces of steel,
applying concentrated, intense heat, then
manipulating the material to create a sense
of softness. When the heat is removed, these
illusions of flexibility are frozen, and on
one level, the sculpture becomes a
documentation of those forces used in the
process. It is his intent that these sculptures
communicate a sense of continuance as if
each piece is a single frame taken from a
film appearing to be at rest before moving on.
A degree of unpredictability is always
present, which tends to tease one’s curiosity
and lend energy.
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ELBOW ROOM
sponsored by
Reckson, a Division of
SL Green Realty Corp.
Artists
Price’s work has enjoyed numerous solo and
group exhibitions, most recently in Century
City, CA, as well as a wide range of public
and corporate commissions ranging from
Walt Disney Productions to the Smithsonian
Museum.
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David attributes his interest in sculpture to watching his father, a welder,
transform ordinary pieces of metal into practical useful objects.
He recognized the ritual involved in welding and how welding was
magically able to alter, shape and
fuse the metal into any form.
After college in Michigan, he
worked as a graphic designer
and artist.
In 2000 he started to make
sculpture in earnest, learned to
weld and to work with steel
and stone and create a body of
sculptural work. He is a full-time
Professor of Art at Western
Connecticut State University. His
work has been shown extensively
and can be found in many public
and private collections throughout
the United States.
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BAROQUE COMPOSITION
sponsored by Stamford Downtown
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GODOT
sponsored by
66 Summer Street
Distinctively Downtown
Apartments
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BENT
TRIAD
Steven Wise Associates/
Spinnaker Real Estate
Group/The Campus and 1937
West Main
sponsored by Bar Rosso
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David Skora (continued)
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BLACK AND RED
sponsored by
Stamford Downtown
STAMFORD STACK 2016
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SPONSORED BY
Stamford Downtown
Fred Spaulding
Fred credits a wide range of events as influences including growing up with the
green trees and lakes of Connecticut, the Pacific surf of California, competing in
the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona (Canoeing), education at Long Beach State
(B.F.A.), University of Connecticut (M.F.A.), assisting artists James Melchert and
Viq McCasslin on tile mural projects for M.I.T. and Long Beach Metro, work at
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, teaching art in Texas for 18 years and a
wonderful 25 year marriage.
TANGO
sponsored by
Stamford Town Center
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At UConn, Fred began working with bricks to create sequential shapes done
over a period of time, a way of working called “Plastic Response.” He continues
to explore the possibilities of constructed structures of brick, expanding the
number of shapes in his collection. He’s had a series of exhibitions and
installations nationally and internationally in Mexico, Denmark and Thailand.
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Artists
Eric Stein
Eric’s sculpture often takes a single idea, sometimes referenced in the title,
or memorializes a specific event and freezes it for further consideration. The
work confronts us with a specific action or intended movement. From computer
technology he uses the individual building block, the “pixel,” enlarged to human
scale. His individual pixels are
generally fabricated from 8”x 8”
or larger steel tubing which is further integrated with conventional
structural steel sections, actual
parts or “souvenirs” from previous construction or sometimes
custom cut steel forms to form the
final sculptural expression. His
work has been seen in numerous
exhibits regionally and nationally.
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Wayne Vaughn
Wayne has been a builder, a musician
and a sculptor. As an apprentice to a
master carpenter, he enjoyed a successful
building career that spanned four decades.
As a founding member of a 30-year-old
brass band, music still plays an important
part in his life.
His career as a sculptor was fostered
by and rooted in this combination of
physical skill and know-how, dedication,
and creative pursuit. Very quickly his
bold, geometric, large-scale works
began winning awards and the attention
of regional and national shows.
PISCIS
sponsored by RMS Companies
TRAP
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SPONSORED BY UBS
VOLATILE RESOLVE
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SPONSORED BY
Steve Hoffman/
Atlantic Associates
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TURNING POINT
sponsored by
RMS Companies
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Artists
Robert Winkler
The events that shaped Robert’s life and art began in Cleveland, Ohio, a city
with a fine museum and art school as well as steel mills, chemical companies
and oil refineries with a rust covered network of steel girder bridges. The forms
and materials of that industrial landscape form an integral part of his work.
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ROLL OVER
sponsored by 600 Summer Street
He moved to Manhattan and later to a large studio in Brooklyn where he
created works for his first solo show and the first of a series of large outdoor
works in cedar.
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In 2003 he moved to Asheville, NC where he founded and curated
RiverSculpture, an annual exhibition of outdoor sculpture by regional artists.
In a career that has spanned
many decades, cities and
countries, the work he began
in his Brooklyn studio has
brought increasing recognition.
His work is in museums,
corporate and private
collections.
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COMING AROUND
sponsored by Stamford Town Center
OVER AND UP
sponsored by
Reckson, a Division of SL Green Realty Corp.
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WITHOUT RESERVATION
sponsored by Stamford Downtown
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
GOLD SPONSORS
Reckson, a Division of SL Green Realty Corp.
RMS Companies
Stamford Town Center
SILVER SPONSORS
Bar Rosso
Empire State Realty Trust
First County Bank
Steven Wise Associates/Spinnaker Real Estate Group/The Campus and 1937 West Main
The Whittingham Family
BRONZE SPONSORS
Steve Hoffman/Atlantic Associates
Avon Theatre Film Center
Gibraltar Management Co., Inc.
Grade A ShopRite
MarLo Associates, Inc.
NBCUniversal
People’s United Bank
Purdue Pharma L.P.
The Rich Foundation
Sacred Heart University’s Stamford Graduate Center
at Landmark Square
66 Summer Street Distinctively Downtown Apartments
600 Summer Street
UBS
A. Vitti Construction, Inc.
CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS
Bildner Capital Corp.
GB Parking
Curator
Eileen Heckerling
Technical Director
Andrew Munce
INSTALLATION TEAM
CITY OF STAMFORD
Ernest Orgera, Director of Operations
Douglas Hoyt, Operations Supervisor
Hamlet Castillo
Orazio Cirelli
Ralph Socci
Dennis Surmaczewicz
Ed Whitehead
David Martin, Mayor
Stamford Downtown
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