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Brooklyn, N.Y. — Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus
is the setting for a series of sculptures by seven professional
sculptors this summer. This is the 11th year that the Brooklyn Campus
has hosted this exhibition for emerging and established New York
artists who create unique projects that harmonize with its 11-acre
grounds.
Curated by Kathleen Gilrain, director of Smack Mellon Studio
in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood, the annual outdoor sculpture
show runs from June 19 to October 31. The opening reception for
the artists will take place on the Campus plaza on Thursday, June
19, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- Using organic and industrial materials culled from the campus
and surrounding areas, Ron Baron has created an artwork
resembling a modern-day archaeological dig that reveals random
aspects of contemporary culture. It is located in an exterior
alcove of the Humanities Building
- Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua have constructed Mountain
Top Picnic, a sculpture that depicts a mountain range, symbolizing
both nature and the obstacles one may have to surmount on the
journey of education and life. Built into the mountain is a bench
and tabletop where one can sit, talk, eat or read.
- Peter Lundberg’s Kamasu is a tall concrete-and-steel
abstract sculpture, located in front of the Humanities Building.
He creates looping, curving pieces resembling Mobius strips or
infinity signs.
- Liza McConnell’s sculpture involves attaching three
side-view mirrors to lampposts in three different areas of the
campus. Portions of the mirrors reflect the urban environment,
such as water towers and buildings. Each mirror also has a tiny
diorama built in that depicts a contrasting rural or pastoral
environment.
- Lisa Mordhorst has used four exterior bays of the Humanities
Building to present fragmented strips of photographically based
landscape images. The flat walls of the building are filled with
images of vast, empty spaces stretching to the horizon, creating
a visual paradox.
- Impressed by the many trees and the sense of serenity in the
courtyard between the Pharmacy Building and the Zeckendorf Health
Sciences Center, Eliza Proctor has elaborated upon these
qualities by affixing plexiglas mirror tops to the tables in the
courtyard, giving viewers a secret moment to observe the inaccessible.
For more information, call (718) 488-1198.
Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus
in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major
universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities.
Some 30,000 students currently are enrolled at the university’s
three residential and three regional campuses, including nearly
11,000 at the Brooklyn Campus. Located at the corner of Flatbush
Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus
is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island
Rail Road.
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