Back in NYC

I’ve just moved with Mary for the 5^th time in two years/ I think this may beat the Belgian writer Georges Simenon’s record; I understand he moved once a year continuously for 25 years. No plagues or perils, we’re just following the path to sculpture commissions that have taken us from Brooklyn to several locals in Washington DC, Virginia, and Gettysburg PA.

 

Moving, gets old very fast, but the time away in Washington was terrific.  We were in DC when Obama was elected and inaugurated, an unforgettable sight we shall never forget on a freezing day in January. And now a year later with a deep sigh and much trepidation about America’s future, we are back on the Brooklyn waterfront in Dumbo, our small community in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, now much changed since our arrival 25 years ago.

 

 
WASHINGTON’S C&O CANAL AND DC ON INAUGURATION DAY

   

DUMBO BROOKLYN/ THE BASE OF THE MANHATTAN BRIDGE / 3 VIEWS

 

It’s good to be back! Brooklyn is much changed but some things never seem to. The three images of the base of this beautiful bridge is one reason why living in NY still has some magic.  The following 3 were shot in this weeks’ snow storm.

 

     
 

  TWO SHOTS OF THE MANHATTAN BRIDGE TOP AND

  BROOKLYN BRIDGE BELOW FROM DUMBO IN THE SNOW

 

But now that I’m back at StudioEIS full time, what’s happening?

Montgomery College Show:  StudioEIS was invited to create an exhibition  about the two new important Lincoln commissions, both completed in 2009. The exhibition is a visual journey through the storytelling process that resulted in the design and development of the Lincoln Cottage Sculpture  and the more recently dedicated Lincoln at Gettysburg Sculpture. Both sculptures can be seen on our website at www.studioeis.com  - go to the portfolio section and bronze sculpture pages.

 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ONE MAN, TWO VIEWS, can be seen at Montgomery College in Silver Spring until March 4, 2010.  The show will open in Dumbo at a beautiful gallery space at 111 Front Street in Brooklyn on March 18, 2010

The exhibition is a first for Elliot and me, inasmuch as we designed it and produced it, which seems to be where some of our interest lies these days.  He and I are talking about creating a series of small exhibitions – 1000 – 1200 sf. on a variety of different subjects for the purpose of creating touring exhibits.  This exhibition gave us some wonderful hands on experience. 

 

 

INVITATION TO THE NEW YORK SHOW OPENING MARCH 18^TH IN NYC

 

FROM THE PRESS RELEASE:

 “Lincoln: One Man, Two Views” provides a visual journey through the creative process used by Schwartz and his creative team at StudioEIS to arrive at two new bronze sculptures of President Lincoln, both dedicated last year in celebration of the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth. An independent artist & designer, Schwartz is founder & director of Brooklyn-based StudioEIS, which has produced hundreds of sculpture projects in the public & private sectors for museums & cultural institutions. The exhibition follows the process — from sketches to photographs to scale models to final installations — of two of Schwartz’s latest bronze sculptures, including “Lincoln and his Horse at President Lincoln's Cottage” at the Soldiers’ Home, Washington, D.C. and “Lincoln at the National Military Park and Visitor Center, Gettysburg, Pa.”

111 Front Street Suite 214 & 222

  

EISBOX: is a new exhibition space developed and curated by Elliot.  EISBOX will open its first exhibition early in March of work by the painter Gary Stephan http://www.kienzle-gmeiner.de/_html/index.html (scroll to Gary’s name). The idea is to suggest an eclectic mix of visual story ideas.  Abraham Lincoln, One Man, Two Views will be the second exhibition by EISBOX possibly to be followed by an architectural exhibition in association with Princeton University.

INNOVATORS IN AMERICA: for the past seven months I have bee working with Sir Harold Evans (The American Century, They Made America, amongst many texts, and Sarah Frank, former CEO of BBC Americas on creating a very large exhibition and education program on American Innovation for the 21^st century.  John Kao (Innovation Nation) just joined the program and this is enormously exciting in its potential to inspire and help develop innovation curricula and a series of traveling exhibitions, large and small, over the next 2-5 years.  More to come on this.

Comments

[Peter Neill]

I see you suffer from the usual blog flaw, that is no one comments, a silence worse than voting with your feet. Indifference trumps rejection every time.

I am amused by the Simenon reference. Surely you are aware of another claim of profligacy -- his reputation of having slept with over 1000 women.

Welcome home. I see you are up to your usual artist-industrialist mischief. I'm glad you're back from going "foreign" in DC. To return Lincolnized is a formidable souvenir, but there are other heros to come. God knows we need some. I'm in Sodom often; I'll be in touch. Smack to M. Peter.