April 21, 1978
For ARTYARD II, a special program at The Brooklyn Museum, Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue, each of seven artists-in-residence is creating a sculptural or painted work for a specific site in the Museum’s back lot. The program will continue through May 15. David H. Katzive, the Museum’s Assistant Director for Education and Program Development, says that Artyard II, modeled after Artpark in upstate New York, is intended to provide the public with an opportunity to see one phase of an artist’s work process, to encounter works of art in unexpected places, and to offer artists an opportunity to experiment in an environment conceived as a visual arts ‘laboratory’.” The seven artists involved are Emily Elman, Thomas Farmer, Harriet Feigenbaum, Herbert George, Stanley Lindwasser, Toshio Odate, and Dmitri Wright. Admission to The Brooklyn Museum is free.
Stanley Lindwasser is a sculptor who will be making a support system for a grid of multi-colored ropes which he will string in a carefully orchestrated pattern atop the glass house in the museum’s sculpture garden.
Toshio Odate, a faculty member of The Brooklyn Museum Art School, will perform chainsaw and log demonstrations on April 29, May 13, and May 20.
Herbert George will construct an escalating wooden container on the eastern grassy knoll behind the Museum which will hold both “space” and coal ash. Its intent is to extend the viewers comprehension of perspective while at the same time utilizing space as the predominant material.
Harriet Feigenbaum will devise a sculpture called “Parking Lot Pentagon off Washington Avenue,” a pentagonal domed building constructed of branches and wire surrounded completely by a bastion-like fence.
Dmitri Wright, a painter and faculty member of The Brooklyn Museum Art School, will create multi-colored, abstract forms, themselves suggestive of landscape, on the grassy slope behind the Museum, using the same techniques employed on football fields for annual bowl events.
Emily Elman, another faculty member of The Brooklyn Museum Art School will lend her painter’s skills to the creation of a festive May Pole scheduled for ceremonial initiation as a family event on Sunday, April 30, a 2:00 P.M.
Thomas Farmer, the project coordinator, will create a cement wall to echo the massive, federally-funded five-story building extension currently underway adjacent to the Artyard site.
On Sunday, May 21, at 2:00 P.M., Mr. Katzive will speak on Artyard and Artpark, and will show a film entitled Artpark People.
The residencies of Herbert George and Harriet Feigenbaum are made possible through grants to these artists by CAPS, an agency funded by the New York State Council on the Arts. The residency of Stanley Lindwasser is made possible by funds he receives through CETA.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1971 - 1988. 1978, 014-15. View Original
