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Two life-size and disconcertingly life-like sculptures of female swimmers are slated to appear on Poydras Street on Friday (April 17). Look for the pair of eerie bathing beauties, by New Yorker Carole Feuerman, between Camp and Magazine streets.
Joining the realistic female figures will be a polka-dotted hourglass-shaped abstraction by Houston artist Dean Ruck between Loyola Avenue and LaSalle Streeet, a robot-like man made of layered slate by New York artist Boaz Vaadia at Convention Center Boulevard, and a silvery modernistic form by Arkansas artist Greer Farris between Baronne and O’Keefe streets.
The new sculptures are the latest additions to a long-term post-Katrina recovery project titled Sculpture For New Orleans, begun by artists Michael Manjarris and Peter Lundberg in 2007. The project, which has provided 50 or more public artworks, is meant to bring an upbeat cosmopolitan tone to the Crescent City streets.
Sculpture For New Orleans arranges for the loan of major works from select artists which are installed largely with funds by private donors and philanthropic foundations. The Helis Foundation underwrote the installation of the Poydras Street sculptures.
Read all about the founding of Sculpture For New Orleans in this 2010 story:“Two artists provide ‘Sculpture For New Orleans'”
Poydras Street commuters have benefitted particularly from Sculpture For New Orleans’ recent efforts. The sports and business corridor from the Superdome to Harrah’s casino is dotted with 22 sculptures by local and international artists, making it second only to the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden in City Park as an outdoor gathering of monumental modernism.
Take a photo tour of the collection and read more at the 2013 story: “Sculpture for New Orleans is a plus for Poydras Street.“
With the appearance of new sculptures on Poydras Street, some of the older works will be removed.
Meet Sculpture For New Orleans director Michael Manjarris and several of the Poydras Street artists — Carole Feuerman, Greer Farris, Dean Ruck, Mia Kaplan and Martin Payton — at a panel discussion on Saturday (April 18) morning at 10 a.m. at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St. The panel discussion will be led by Ogden curator Bradley Sumrall. RSVP requested at poydrascorridor.eventbrite.com.
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