Fall/Winter 2007/08 Exhibitions October 7, 2007 – April 27, 2008 Ground Floor 2007 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards As part of a partnership with the International Sculpture Center (ISC), Grounds For Sculpture is pleased to present the eighth consecutive exhibition of the Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards.  Each year the ISC presents an award competition to its member colleges and universities as a means of supporting, encouraging, and recognizing the work of young sculptors.  Professors are invited to nominate their outstanding undergraduate or graduate students to submit digital images to be juried by a panel of art professionals.  This year, 339 graduate and undergraduate students from both national and international colleges and universities were nominated.  Students whose work is chosen by the jury are awarded the opportunity to show their work at Grounds For Sculpture in this group exhibition.  Twenty-one students were selected to exhibit their juried artwork this year—11 additional students received Honorable Mentions.  In addition, award winners receive a posting of their work, their biography, and a spotlight of their college/university’s art department on the ISC website, and further recognition for their work and school published in Sculpture magazine.   The twenty-one works showcased in this exhibition demonstrate a wide range of creative thought, artistic skill, and original talent.  As you explore the exhibition, we invite you to let your guard down, to open your mind, and to ask questions.  For example, come to terms with your own mortality as you stumble upon Sörine Anderson’s Traveling Through the Dark or come face to face with Rory Burke’s 100 Cast Miniature Heads.  Watch out for Plays Well with Others by Eric Carlson, be pleasantly grossed out by Izumi Ryono’s Pudgy, explore temporal beauty within Amanda Salov’s Dripping Sweetness, and consider the medium in American Flag by Jeremiah Jenkins—100,000 matches.  Likewise, marvel at the art of science, architecture and engineering displayed in Dayton Castleman’s Infinite Bridge, Gregory Witt’s Surface with Sticks, or David Young’s Object in Motion.  We invite you to attempt to mentally reassemble Joshua Wilichowski’s '81 Suzuki or to decipher Thingy by Nick van Woert; and to appreciate the subtleness of Andy Anzardo’s Low-Oscillation or to reflect on the world that we live in today by viewing Peaarl Sauce by Ben Godward or Ryan Mandell’s Airport.  Consider the artist’s personal experience when looking at Taylor Baldwin’s Busted Butte or the Evening Deadness in the West, Dunnage by Patrick Cuffe, Lydia Musco’s Unfinished Sentences, or the Water Enrichment Kit by Jonathan Pellitteri.  Finally, reflect on the function of Evertt Beidler’s The Driven Driver, investigate the creation of the multiple unintentional structures R. Justin Stewart’s Connected, and peak your curiosity with Handyman's Special by David Clayton.  All of the works in this exhibition reflect a cornucopia of statements and personal meanings.  This year, the distinguished jury included three jurors—Alyson Baker, Tom Csaszar and Steven Siegel.  Alyson Baker is the Executive Director of Socrates Sculpture Park, an internationally acclaimed outdoor exhibition space and artist residency program located along the East River in Long Island City, Queens, New York.  With over nineteen years of experience, Baker has worked on more than a hundred exhibitions with both emerging and renowned artists including Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, and Mark di Suvero.  Tom Csaszar is an artist, writer, and lecturer based in Philadelphia—he has written pieces for Artnews, Art in America, American Crafts, The New Art Examiner, and Sculpture, to name a few.  Csaszar is on the faculty of the University of the Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.  Steven Siegel is primarily known for his large outdoor installations made of indigenous post-consumer materials (recyclables).  Siegel’s has a vast oeuvre of public art commissions, site-specific installations, university projects, solo and group exhibitions, and artist-in-residencies.  His most recent project includes an artist-in-residence at Grounds For Sculpture from September 11 to October 6, 2006.   The International Sculpture Center (ISC), headquartered in Hamilton, NJ and Washington, DC, is a member-supported, nonprofit organization founded in 1960.  The mission of the organization is to advance the creation and understanding of sculpture and its unique, vital contribution to society.  To fulfill this mission, the ISC provides extensive programs and services, including a four-color magazine Sculpture, regular conferences and symposia, and an award-winning website, www.sculpture.org, the world’s largest and most comprehensive visual arts website devoted to the field of sculpture.

Sorine Anderson  Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL Traveling Through the Dark, 2006 Deer fur, deer head, plaster 24” x 60” x 24” Andy Anzardo  University of Georga, Athens, GA Low-Oscillation, 2007 plywood, pine 96” x 132" x 14” Taylor Baldwin Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA Busted Butte or the Evening Deadness in the West, 2007 mixed media 120" x 96" x 120 Everett Beidler Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL The Driven Driver, 2007 mixed media 108" x 104" x 168" Rory Burke University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI detail 100/1000 cast miniature heads, 2006 mixed media dimensions variable

Eric Carlson University of Missouri, Columbia, MO Plays well with others, 2006 fabric 12" x 84" x 36"		Dayton Castleman School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Infinite Bridge, 2006 steel 120" x 120" x 9"
David Clayton Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Handyman's Special, 2006 mixed media 95" x 22" x 18"		Patrick Cuffe University of Albany, Albany, NY Dunnage, 2007 mixed media 36" x 48" x 48"
Ben Godward University of Albany, Albany, NY Pearl Sauce, 2007 foam 60" x 48" x 30"		Jeremiah Jenkins San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA American Flag, 2007 mixed media 38" x 62" x 4"
Ryan Mandell Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Airport, 2006 hydrostone 72" x 144" x 144"		Lydia Musco Boston University, Boston, MA Unfinished sentences, 2007 cement 94" x 22" x 22"
Jonathan Pellitteri Louisiana State Unversity, Baton Rouge, LA Water Enrichment Kit, 2006 wood, steel, lead, glass, leather, bronze dimensions variable		Isumi Ryono University of North Carolina, Geensboro, NC I should be born a boy, 2007 ceramic 7" x 11" x 12"
Isumi Ryono Pudgy, 2007 clay 13" x 19" x 16"		Izumi Ryono Tighten up,  please!, 2007 clay 12" x 7" x 9"
Amanda Savlov University of Missouri, Columbia, MO Dripping Sweetness, 2006 mixed media 10" x 7" x 5"		Amanda Savlov Gentle Anxiety, 2007 mixed media 4" x 4" x 6"
Amanda Savlov Tip-Toe, 2006 porcelain 4" x 9" x 9"		R. Justin Stewart University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN Connected, 06 fleece, rope, paint, pvc caps, hose barbs, metal 96" x 180" x 60"
Nick van Woert Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY Thingy, 2006 steel, paint, concrete, expandable foam, foam 40" x 40" x 36"		Joshua Wilichowski University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI '81 Suzuki, 2007 mixed media 161" x 96" x 90 1/4"
Gregory Witt Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Surface with Sticks #3, 2007 mixed media 32" x 70" x 50"		David Young Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Object in Motion, 2007 mixed media 32" x 48" x 36"

January 12, 2008 - April 27, 2008 mezzanine Focus on Sculpture 2008 A Juried Photography Exhibition in conjunction with the Fall/Winter 2007/08 Exhibitions Focus on Sculpture, a juried exhibition of photographs all sharing sculpture as subject matter, has become and annual exhibition at Grounds For Sculpture.  The sculpture park's mission is to foster a greater understanding and appreciation of contemporary sculpture through exhibitions, publications, and educational programming.  In keeping with this mission, Focus on Sculpture was established to present and promote sculpture in a unique way - through the art of photography. Participation in this juried show was limited to amateur photographers 18 years of age or older.  The only major requirement was that the images depict sculpture or present an image in a sculptural manner.  Applications were sent to New Jersey photo clubs, regional adult communities, and college art departments.  They were also available to Grounds For Sculpture's visitors. Each year a different professional in the field of photography is invited to select the works for the exhibition from those submitted.  Entries for Focus on Sculpture 2008 were juried by fine art photographer, Joe Yablonsky.  Yablonsky is on the faculty of Anne Arundel Community College, the Washington School of Photography, and Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, all located near Washington, D.C..

Selected Photographs by: Mike Capen Jeff Currie Joanne Donnelly Bob Dowd Barbara Eggerman Ilya Genin Beth Gross Marv Kaminsky Jody Kendall Linda Kimler Barbara Lawrence Coleen Marks Corinne Markulin Joseph Moritko Peter Roome Ginny Santora Joe Segal Richard Trenner Margareta Warlick Grace Wright Paul Marvuglio