The Art Park
Where Art and Nature Converge
The Art Park was created as a sanctuary where people can come to experience art in the beauty of nature, to reflect and connect.
Andy Goldsworthy – Watershed Boulder
Andy Goldsworthy is a sculptor, photographer and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculptures and land art in natural and urban settings.
Jaume Plensa – Julia
Walking up the path you immediately see the powerful and silent face of Julia.
Ursula Von Rydinsvard – Echo
Ursula von Rydingsvard’s massive sculpture Echo resembles the wooden tools that the artist’s family used in pre-industrial Poland before World War II.
John Lopez – Wild West Buffalo
Born and raised on a ranch John Lopez started his career working in bronze and depicting traditional western and rodeo themes.
Jeffrey Gibson – American History
This recent work includes a quote from James Baldwin, one of the artist’s heroes.
Ursula Von Rydingsvard – Dwa
Over a four-decade-long career, Ursula von Rydingsvard has become one of the most influential sculptors working today.
Jaume Plensa – Nuria and Irma
The monumentally-scaled work, Nuria and Irma encourages you to see the landscape through the sculpture.
Ernesto Neto – O que estamos pensado, nesta rede, nesta hora, nesta mundo… nesta eternidade
Comprised of flat, biomorphic shapes, the work explores balance, tension and equilibrium, which are the central themes in Neto’s practice.
Bernar Venet – Indeterminate Line
Venet says that his sculpture is about “how metal resists. They are a test of strength—a battle between myself and a piece of metal.”
Michele Oka Doner – Ice Ring and Radiant Table
Michele Oka Doner is an internationally renowned artist whose career spans over five decades.
Jeffrey Gibson – Get Up, Stand Up
As the opening statement on the Wailer’s 1973 album Burnin’, “Get Up Stand Up” would go on to endure as an international human rights anthem, speaking to the persistence of oppression and human rights violations in all forms throughout the world.
Jeffrey Gibson – The Difficulty of Being Loved
The repurposed punching bag is a metaphorical reference to “a struggle” which Gibson has used in only 19 other works.
Pablo Atchugarry – Dance of Illusions
Pablo Atchugarry is a Uruguayan artist and his work is based on the classic sculptural principle that the natural beauty of marble evolves out the simple variations in the stone.
Joe Gray – Aloft Windswept
Joe descends from local Abenaki and many of his works feature his tribe’s ancestors and reflect their beliefs.
Pablo Atchugarry – Return to Life
Have you ever bought something and then get it home and realizes it doesn’t quite fit?
John Woodrow Wilson – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. is an important figure for John Wilson and the subject of two of his major public commissions.
Orly Genger – Going, Going, Gone
Orly Genger is best known for creating large-scale installations from coils of rope, like this piece, Going, Going, Gone.
Dewitt Godfrey – Up and Away
DeWitt Godfrey is an American sculptor best known for his large, playful, rubber band-like sculptures constructions of banded steel.
Beezy Bailey – The 1000 Year Dance Cure
Often Bailey’s works are accompanied by poems, such as 1000 Year Dance Cure, in which he urges the world to dance a new dance, to abandon that which does not serve us, and to embrace each other in our humanity, and the Earth in her service to us.
Beezy Bailey – Bowie Dancer
Beezy Bailey is a South African artist who works in a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking and ceramics.