The husband and I went to Storm King again and visited the places we didn't see the first time around. We didn't visit the North Lawn and they had a new exhibit there as well. We stayed at the same place, but the pool was closed! Boo! I bought floats just for that pool! But then again, we did use them in Sun River, Oregon. Here is the link for the first time, back in July 2014. Anyway, Storm King is about 1.5 hours away from NYC, and is a 500 acre sculpture park. It is best to rent bikes to see all the sculptures and pack a lunch! Last time we visited, it was for our 1 year anniversary, and it was so much fun! This is Alexander Liberman's Adonai. Liberman has a lot of sculptures and they are pretty big and beautiful. Liberman said, "I think many works of art are screams, and I identify with screams". Gazebo for Two Anarchists is by Siah Armajani. There are 2 chairs on each end, connected by a truss bridge. Matt looks so thoughtful. It was cool that we could sit in this and think about anarchy. This wasn't part of the art, but this tree looked cool, with small branches sticking out. They look like spikes. Day Game, by David Stoltz. This was located in the North Lawn, in the woods, his sculpture twisting and turning.. The bottom photo, is the other end, looking like a roller coaster.. Hans Hokanson's Helixikos Number 3 looks like a ram's head or a twisted snake. This was a small and cute sculpture. Kosta Alex's Man in Hat. I want one! Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisko is a obelisk balancing on a pyramid. There are four multiples in the United States: Rothko Chapel, Houston; Red Square, University of Washington, Seattle; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; and here at Storm King Art Center! Forrest Myers’s Four Corners, is a visually complex, open, incomplete cube, is composed of four different materials: bronze, stainless steel, weathering steel, and concrete. I felt like it was a portal to another dimension. Ronald Bladen’s three-part geometric sculpture. This felt like it was from the movie 2001 and also another portal, where you can go to 3 different places at once. This is called Storm king's Wavefield by Maya Lin. Lin collaborated with landscape architects to utilize the existing gravel and topsoil at the site. It is so relaxing and nice to look at, it makes you want to go to the beach right away, drink a sugary drink, bask in the sun and then go swimming, while looking out for sharks. Naturalist Andy Goldsworthy's, Five Men, Seventeen Days, Fifteen Boulders, One Wall. We saw this last time, and it was Matt's favorite. Apparently his dad is building one similar to this. Below is a close up. Lynda Bengli's Hills and Clouds. It glows in the dark! To me it looks kinda like a monster. Pink Ladies also by Bengli. This reminded me of Atlantis for some reason. This is called North South East West and is made of bronze and steel by Benglis. Crustaceans came to my head while viewing this beautiful fountain. This fountain is called Crescendo and Double Fountain, Mother and Child, For Anad. Below is a close up. Monstrous creature with molten lava body is what I see. I feel like I still missed some of the art. I looked at the website's permanent collection, and I realized I still didn't see of all it! I guess we have to go back again next year for visit #3! It is that big!
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I finally went to Photoville, in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Today was their last day, and the husband agreed to accompany me. Photoville is located on Pier 5 and is an event that re-purposes shipping containers into mini art galleries. Each shipping container houses a photographer's work, or group of photographers that address issues around the world. The first container we stepped in was called Scenes from the Ebola Crisis by Daniel Berehulak, a freelance photographer who works mostly for The New York Times. The photographs were powerful, and had sad images of people, and their loved ones infected with the virus in West Africa. Berehulak also won the Pulitzer Prize for his feature photography. Maybe we should have seen this last, it was too upsetting to see when we first arrived. The next exhibit we saw was the Disturbing Beauty of Sphynx Cats by Alicia Rius. I love the black background and rectangular display of the cats! This container showed Getty Images and Instagram photographers. Can't get enough of David Bowie! This was upstairs on top of a shipping container and this photographer was behind these photocubes, adjusting his camera. Why? I don't know. Aren't you supposed to look at the photos, not take a photo of the skyline? Check out the woman holding a skeleton of a mermaid. My favorite was from Feature Shoot, entitled Flora & Fauna. It is a show about plants and animals curated by Feature Shoot’s 42K Instagram followers. Over a period of 3 weeks, they sorted through over 9,000 images and posted over 400 images to Instagram, inviting followers to vote. Followers cast their votes simply by “liking” the image(s) on Instagram, and the 25 most popular images from 22 photographers around the world are presented in this show (from Photoville.com) This container housed images from Dutch photographers. My second favorite. Surreal portraits, and story like images are what I strive for in photographs. Lastly, the Instagram shipping container. I didn't go to all the containers, I could tell Matt didn't want to see all of photos, and he had to work, so next year I will go by myself so I can spend more time with the art and see everything. I feel like I missed out on a lot of the photos. There were about 60 photo exhibits, and I feel like I only went to 6.
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