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Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 29, 2004
No. 108
http://www.nyc.gov/parks
BY POPULAR DEMAND, TOM OTTERNESS ON BROADWAY, BROADWAY MALLS' LARGEST EXHIBITION IN HISTORY, EXTENDED THROUGH MARCH 18, 2005
The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, The Broadway Mall
Association and Marlborough Gallery today announced the extension of Tom
Otterness on Broadway, an exhibition of 25 sculptures by New York City
sculptor Tom Otterness, through March 18, 2005.
Tom Otterness on Broadway stretches from Columbus Circle to Washington
Heights along Broadway, between 60th and 168th Streets. Spanning over
five miles, the exhibition represents the largest display of temporary
public art on the Broadway Malls.
Considered one of the premier public artists working in the United
States, Tom Otterness has exhibited widely and completed commissions in
this country and abroad. His stylized bronze figures combine into
sculptural ensembles that explore the range of human experience, from
grand ambition to common foibles, plucking imagery and themes from
popular culture and subtly transforming them into humorous commentary.
Otterness' art has been exhibited in communities around the globe. In
addition to work in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The
Whitney Museum of American Art and The Carnegie Museum of Art in
Pittsburgh, public commissions include installations at the United
States Courthouses in Minneapolis and Sacramento.
In New York City, he has installations at the Carl Sagan Discovery Center
at Montefiore Children's Hospital in the Bronx; mounted on piers in the
East River; at the Little Red School at the corner of 6th Avenue and Houston;
at Metrotech; at P.S.234 in Manhattan; in Nelson Rockefeller State Park in
Battery Park City; in the A/C/E/L subway station at 14th Street; and at
the entrance to the Hilton Times Square Hotel. He is currently
completing a major public commission for Museum Beelden aan Zee in The
Netherlands. Otterness, a New York resident since the 1970s, works from
a studio in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
This show includes Marriage of Real Estate and Money, as well as more
recent works that draw characters from fairy tale and myth. Reflecting
the artist's use of scale to establish complex relationships between
his sculpture and their surroundings, the work featured in Tom Otterness
on Broadway ranges in size from Boy and Dog, which measures a mere 20
inches tall, to Escaping Leg, standing over 20 feet tall. All of these
works will continue to be on view through March 18, with the exception
of See No Evil at 60th Street, which will be removed by mid-January so
that construction can move ahead at Columbus Circle.
Parks & Recreation's temporary public art program has consistently
fostered the creation and installation of temporary public art in parks
throughout the five boroughs. Since 1967, collaborations with arts
organizations and artists have produced hundreds of public art projects
in City parks. Committed to the exhibition of art by emerging and
established artists, Parks & Recreation has supported projects ranging
from international exhibitions in flagship parks to local, community
works in neighborhood parks and traffic islands.
Recent revitalization of the Broadway Malls has been made possible
through the support of the Lincoln Square BID, Columbia University,
Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, The Broadway Mall Association, the
Borough President and City Council, and volunteer organizations such as
the Jewish Community Center and the L.D. Brandeis High School/Evergreen
House. Fabrication, installation, maintenance and removal of the artwork
for this show have been paid for by Marlborough Gallery and Tom
Otterness Studio.
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