''Spirit Totems'' Sculpture Installation by Herb Alpert at Bryant Park Opens with Gala Event on Site October 20th.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Music icon and visual artist Herb Alpert Herbert "Herb" Alpert (born March 31, 1935 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass or as Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass or just TJB , whose six monumental bronze "Spirit Totems totems (tō·t  mz),n. " sculptures were installed in Bryant Park Bryant Park is a 9.603 acre (39,000 m²) public park located in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is bounded by Fifth Avenue, Sixth Avenue, 40th Street and 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan.[1] The central building of the New York Public Library is in the park. on October 4th, will be present at an official opening of the six week exhibition on Thursday, October 20th, from 5-7:00pm. The gala event will be held at the site of the sculptures in Bryant Park at the northwest corner, near the petanque courts by 6th Avenue and 42nd Street. The Totems, which range in height from eight to twelve feet, travelled from Alpert's studio in Malibu, California Malibu is a city located in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 12,575. The city of Malibu is a 27-mile (43. to midtown Manhattan to kick off a travelling exhibition of the series that will return to the west coast for a two-month run at the Pasadena Museum of Art in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . Alpert was inspired to create his Totems series after visiting the Totem Sculpture Garden in Vancouver, B.C.'s Stanley Park. "The tribes of the Indians who lived in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska created a new language of art that I related to," said Alpert. The artist is of Russian-Romanian descent and grew up in Los Angeles embracing its multicultural influences. In his art and his music, Alpert fuses diverse cultural streams into fresh new forms. The process by which Alpert creates his sculptures involves the creation of handformed wax maquettes and smaller clay prototypes. The finished bronze castings, each weighing approximately 1,000 lbs., resonate with subtle color as a result of acid washes and oxide patinas applied to the castings. In talking about his creative process, Alpert describes the connection that he feels between music and visual art. Acknowledging its mystery in creating the Totems, he says, "It's like jazz. Art is a feel. I like to journey into the world where words don't exist. Each Totem evokes a chain or a phrase, which, like a Miles Davis solo, is distinctive and monumental. A legendary trumpeter, Herb Alpert is renowned worldwide for his extraordinary music career, with the Tijuana Brass, as a solo jazz and pop artist, and as co-founder of A&M Records. His career as a visual artist has paralleled his life in music for over three decades. After discovering abstract painting in art museums that he visited during his international touring with the Brass, Alpert began to paint in the late 1960s and to make sculpture a few years later. His bold, abstract expressionist ex·pres·sion·ism n. A movement in the arts during the early part of the 20th century that emphasized subjective expression of the artist's inner experiences. ex·pres style expresses organic forms with an intuitive fluidity. |
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