A Stamford Downtown Outdoor Sculpture...

“Over & Up” by Robert Winkler

A Stamford DowntownOutdoor Sculpture

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Downtown Expressions

Dear Friends:

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,

Sandy GoldsteinPresidentStamford Downtown

Reyno A. Giallongo, Jr.ChairmanStamford Downtown

David MartinMayorCity of Stamford

NAVIGATORsponsored by Purdue Pharma L.P.

BIG CATsponsored by The Whittingham Family


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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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Bernie CarreñoBernie 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.

Carreño was awarded Indiana Arts Com-mission Individual Artists project grants in 2004 and 2006. He was until recently the Sculpture Department Head for the India-napolis 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 institu-tions from across the nation.

jeffie brewerJeffie 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.

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.

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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Jeff ChyatteJeff 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.

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.

DALLIANCESponsored by First County Bank

ELEMENTSSponsored by A. Vitti Construction, Inc.

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ProwessSPONSORED BY Empire State Realty Trust

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Roger HalliganRoger 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.

Jon KrawczykHailing 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.

Several of his most recent projects are large scale site-specific public art installations at high profile locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle- Bellevue region, Los Angeles-Beverly Hills, Downtown Newark-NJ, and Downtown Manhattan.

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WEDGEDsponsored by NBCUniversal

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DD’S PARADISEsponsored by Gibraltar Management Co., Inc.

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Dennis LeriEast 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.

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.

Harry McDanielHarry 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.

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.

PURE FORM #5Sponsored by Sacred Heart University’s Stamford Graduate Center at Landmark Square

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FAUN DANCEsponsored by Stamford Town Center

INTRUSIONSPONSORED BY The Whittingham Family


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Ruth Aizuss Migdal 24 La Diva 25 StreamingGus & Lina Ocamposilva 26 Magic Rain 27 sunsetBret Price 28 Elbow Room 29 Godot 30 TriadDavid Skora 31 Baroque Composition 32 Bent 33 Black and Red 34 TangoFred Spaulding 35 Stamford Stack 2016Eric Stein 36 Trap 37 Volatile ResolveWayne Vaughn 38 Piscis 39 Turning PointRobert Winkler 40 Coming Around 41 Over and Up 42 Roll Over 43 Without Reservation

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Gus & Lina OcamposilvaColombian-American artists, Gus and Lina are a highly respected husband and wife sculptor team. Born in Colombia, Gus studied murals at Massana School of Barce-lona 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.

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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MAGIC RAINSPONSORED BY People’s United Bank

SUNSETSPONSORED BY grade a shoprite

Artists Sculptures&Ruth Aizuss MigdalAs 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.

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 diam-eter. Her work has been widely exhibited, collected and reproduced.

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David SkoraDavid 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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Bret PriceSince 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.

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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Fred SpauldingFred 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.

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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Eric SteinEric’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 fur-ther integrated with conventional structural steel sections, actual parts or “souvenirs” from previ-ous construction or sometimes custom cut steel forms to form the final sculptural expression. His work has been seen in numerous exhibits regionally and nationally.


Wayne VaughnWayne 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.

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Robert WinklerThe 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.

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.

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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GOLD SPONSORSReckson, a Division of SL Green Realty Corp.

RMS CompaniesStamford Town Center

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David Martin, Mayor

SILVER SPONSORSBar Rosso

Empire State Realty TrustFirst County Bank

Steven Wise Associates/Spinnaker Real Estate Group/The Campus and 1937 West MainThe Whittingham Family

BRONZE SPONSORSSteve Hoffman/Atlantic Associates

Avon Theatre Film CenterGibraltar Management Co., Inc.

Grade A ShopRiteMarLo Associates, Inc.

NBCUniversalPeople’s United BankPurdue 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

UBSA. Vitti Construction, Inc.

CONTRIBUTING SPONSORSBildner Capital Corp.

GB Parking

CuratorEileen Heckerling

Technical DirectorAndrew Munce

INSTALLATION TEAMCITY OF STAMFORDErnest Orgera, Director of OperationsDouglas Hoyt, Operations Supervisor

Hamlet CastilloOrazio CirelliRalph Socci

Dennis SurmaczewiczEd Whitehead

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