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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, September 30, 2005

No. XX

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deborah butterfield horses Grace park avenue malls

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The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation is pleased to announce an exhibition of sculpture by Deborah Butterfield on the Park Avenue Malls, from October 1, 2005 through February 2006. The works, entitled Deep Time (2005), Cicada (2005), and Wilder (2005), will be exhibited between 52^nd and53^rd Streets and 53^rdand 54^th Streets. The works evoke life-size horses, created from scrap metal and driftwood, each unique work cast in bronze. They will be placed on the grassy areas of the malls, against a backdrop of classic New York skyscrapers. The sculpture is presented upon the recommendation of the Sculpture Committee of the Fund for Park Avenue and in cooperation with Edward Thorp Gallery, New York.

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Deborah Butterfield is an internationally renowned artist based in Montana who has been creating sculptures of horses since the mid-1970s. In her recently published monograph, art historian Wayne L. Roosa suggests that the artist �transforms pieces of scrap metal and found wood into majestic, life-size horse sculptures that are like ancient noble archaeological remains, skeletal and grand.�� A nationally touring exhibition of her work is now on view at Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach, Florida, through December 11, 2005, and follows at the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee, from January 16^th through April 9^th, 2006.

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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, playgrounds, and traffic islands.

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Contact: ��������� Warner Johnston / Dana Rubinstein�������������������������� (212) 360-1311

����������������������� Ronald Spencer (The Fund for Park Avenue)����������� (212) 238‑8737

Edward Thorp Gallery ����������������������������������� (212) 691-6565

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