Artist David Stromeyer’s Solo Exhibition Opens at the Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts

CONCORD, Mass. - June 6, 2013 - PRLog -- Concord, MA (June 6, 2013) Artist David Stromeyer’s solo exhibition SHAPING THE VOID: Four Major Outdoor Sculptures opens at the Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts, which will run for one year.  Two of the pieces are based on twist forms: “Paso Doble,” inspired by the Spanish dance, and “Swingin’ Easy,” based on the jazz standard.  The other sculptures, “Shaping the Void” and “Listen Closely” are figurative in nature and suggestive of rich, narrative relationships. All pieces are in painted, fabricated steel.

David Stromeyer’s sculptures are often informed by patterns and rhythms in nature and music.  His works imply motion and play with our perceptions of space, evoking questions similar to those posed in architecture: interior vs. exterior, movement and dimensionality.  In the 1980’s, Stromeyer began experimenting with color to nuance the space and evoke a mood.  Form and color are equally weighted; “Finishing the form becomes another starting point,” Stromeyer says.  He is known for choosing colors from a wide-ranging and distinctive palette.

Stromeyer sometimes works on a smaller, outdoor scale, and periodically creates series of indoor works, most recently in aged wood stained with colored inks.    

Currently David Stromeyer also has a major sculpture in Stamford, Connecticut’s Downtown Abstractions: Art in Public Places, a group, outdoor sculpture show that opens June, 11, 2013, and runs throughout the summer.  His most recent exhibition, Equilibrium: A 40-year Career Retrospective, was hosted in 2012 by Burlington City Arts, in Burlington, Vermont.  

Shaping the Void is the fourth in Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts’ series Big Art that showcases large-scale work with the intent of engaging the community.  There will be an Artist Talk, Pushing the Limits of Steel: David Stromeyer Discusses the Nexus of Art and Science, followed by a reception Saturday, June 22 from 5:00 - 7:00 PM at the Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts.  All are invited to attend.

About David Stromeyer:

David Stromeyer is a nationally recognized artist with works on display in museum, municipal, university, corporate, and private collections across the country.  The artist fabricates his work in his custom-built Vermont studio that can accommodate his large-scale process.  Working with steel, Stromeyer finds the material powerful and expressive as he experiments with its structural properties by bending, twisting, and pulling it to new extremes.  Treating steel more like plastic, Stromeyer’s sculptures are surprisingly delicate and fluid, and seem to defy gravity as their organic forms gracefully twist and bend into elegant, abstract relationships.  Stromeyer spends the winter months at his Austin, TX studio and home, experimenting with new materials and developing future sculptural projects.

For more information on the artist, visit his website at www.davidstromeyer.com