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A Resolution approving a temporary public art loan, for up to a year, of a sculpture by David Hayes. (Unanimously recommended by the Cultural Development Board approval/denial vote: 4 to 0).
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The studio of artist David Hayes (1931-2013) approached Mayor Valdes-Fauli requesting a temporary exhibition of the artist’s sculpture Quadraped #2.
Mayor Valdes-Fauli forwarded the request to the Cultural Development Board for their review and recommendation to the City Commission.
About the artist:
David Hayes studied with acclaimed sculpture David Smith and received a post-doctoral Fulbright award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Achieving prominence himself, he is a recipient of the Logan Prize for Sculpture and an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He has had some 400 exhibitions and is included in over 100 institutional collections including those of the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In 2007 was conferred an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Albertus Magnus College. He worked in Coventry, Connecticut and Paris, France over a period of six decades. Most recently, the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami hosted an exhibition of the artist’s work in 2016.
Funding for the temporary installation is being proposed through the artist’s studio with the City providing promotional support of the exhibition.
The Cultural Development Board voted unanimously (4-0) to recommend support of the temporary public exhibition of David Hayes’ Quadraped #2 at their meeting on November 7, 2017.