PUBLIC SCULPTURE
STATEMENT

In 2012, I was selected for the Model to Monument program, a collaboration between the Art Students League of NY and the NYC Parks Department. This was the fulfillment of a long term desire to create public sculpture. I designed a piece, Wave, for the Riverside Park South location in Manhattan, on the shores of the Hudson River, in which I combined my love of waves with the depiction of striped bass, which swim up the Hudson to spawn and represent the cycle of nature. This sculpture is now permanently installed at Rockland Community College in Suffern, NY. A few years later, in 2017, I continued my wave theme with a public sculpture, Rockaway Wave, for Rockaway Beach Park, in Queens, NY, where I incorporated colorful sea stars and seahorses into the wave.

In two locations upstate New York, I have had sculptures on display:  Adam and Eve, life-size concrete torsos in an Eden-like setting at a park in the Catskill Mountains; and a metal semi-abstract life-size figure, Sentinel, at a town sculpture park in High Falls.