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12 Steel Sculptures by Artist David Hayes Installed In Downtown For One Year
Twelve large sculptures by the artist David Hayes are in downtown Syracuse for one year. The City of Syracuse, the Cultural Resources Council, the Downtown Committee of Syracuse,
the Everson Museum and the 40 Below Public Arts Task Force collaborated
with the artist to mount this outdoor exhibition on downtown streets
and parks, coupled with four additional large sculptures on the grounds
of the Everson Museum. This is the largest show of contemporary
sculpture to ever come to Syracuse, which is free and open to the
public through May, 2008.
David Hayes was born in Hartford, CT and
received an A.B. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1953 and a
M.F.A. degree from Indiana University in 1955 where he studied with
David Smith. He has received a post-doctoral Fulbright award and a
Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a recipient of the Logan Prize for
Sculpture and an award from the National Institute of Arts and
Letters. He has had over 300 exhibitions and is included in over 100
institutional collections including that of the Museum of Modern Art
and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. He resides in Coventry, CT.
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