Tag Archive for "sculpture"

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May 9, 2013

ARTINFO Interview: Orly Genger’s Waves of Color in Madison Square Park

Orly Genger’s “Red, Yellow and Blue” (2013) at Madison Square Park. Photo by James Ewing/ Courtesy of the Madison Square Park Conservancy. By Kristen Boatright Published: May 9, 2013 Bringing a nautical feel to Manhattan’s Madison Square Park, New York-based artist Orly Genger’s Red, Yellow and Blue is splashing the park with the primary colors… Read more

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March 6, 2012

SOON TO COME: The Vibrating Pipes of Charles Long

Art Daily reports on Pet Sounds, Mad. Sq. Art’s upcoming exhibit from acclaimed California-based artist, Charles Long. NEW YORK, NY.- Mad. Sq. Art announces Pet Sounds, an interactive, large-scale, mixedmedia installation by acclaimed California-based artist Charles Long. Sited on Madison Square Park’s expansive Oval Lawn, Pet Sounds will introduce a snaking network of vibrantly colored… Read more

Press Releases

March 2, 2012

Mad. Sq. Art: Charles Long

Mad. Sq. Art announces Pet Sounds, an interactive, large-scale, mixed-media installation by acclaimed California-based artist Charles Long. Sited on Madison Square Park’s expansive Oval Lawn, Pet Sounds will introduce a snaking network of vibrantly colored pipe railings creating new paths as they wind across the urban oasis. As these railings converge around a common seating… Read more

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January 27, 2012

Echo Echoes

Jaume Plensa’s Echo included in Interior Design’s best of 2011 as a Madison Square Park Conservancy commission. “Jaume Plensa Echo, cast in polyester resin, fiberglass, and marble dust, commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservancy in New York. Photography: Alex Stikhin”

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August 19, 2011

Mad. Sq. Art: Next Up

We’re pleased to announce our next featured Mad. Sq. Art artist, Alison Saar. She’s creating four new sculptures for the park representing the four seasons, which will be displayed alongside two earlier works. Check out the full scoop here.

Alison Saar: Feallan and Fallow

Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art announces Feallan and Fallow, a six-piece installation featuring four newly commissioned works by Los Angeles-based artist Alison Saar. Drawing inspiration from the cyclical qualities of life and nature, Saar’s Feallan and Fallow will take park-goers and visitors on a journey through the four seasons as inspired by the… Read more

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July 29, 2011

A Lovely Sketch of Echo

The blog What I Saw Today posted a lovely sketch of our fair maiden. Click the link for the full sketch.

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February 11, 2011

Echo extended through Sept. 11

Photographs by James Ewing Good news! Jaume Plensa’s Echo has been extended through September 11! Over the past three decades, the celebrated Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa has established an international reputation for creating public sculptures that are both monumental in scale and emotionally engaging in subject. Working in a wide variety of materials, Plensa has… Read more

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September 12, 2010

Antony Gormley: Event Horizon

From March 26 through August 15, 2010, The Madison Square Park Conservancy will present Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon, a landmark public art exhibition, as part of Mad. Sq. Art 2010. In Event Horizon, thirty-one life-size body forms of the artist cast in iron and fiberglass will inhabit the pathways and sidewalks of historic Madison Square… Read more

September 17, 2009

Mel Kendrick: Markers

The Madison Park Conservancy’s Madison Sq. Art program is pleased to present Markers, a group of five new cast concrete sculptures by Mel Kendrick. They will be installed on the central axis of the central Oval Lawn of historic Madison Square Park. MARKERS Photos by James Ewing The five new pieces that make up the… Read more