Friday, September 30, 2005
No. XX
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 52nd and53rd
Streets and 53rdand 54th 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.
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 16th through April 9th, 2006.
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.
Contact: Warner Johnston / Dana Rubinstein (212) 360-1311
Ronald Spencer (The Fund for Park Avenue) (212) 238‑8737
Edward Thorp Gallery (212) 691-6565