War Memorial III, a grouping of five 11-foot-tall abstracted bronzes, moved to Grounds For Sculpture from its placement outside the City University of New York Graduate Center in mid-town Manhattan. Linda Cunningham used an experimental process to cast the fragmented, imposing, and haunting figurative units of the composition. The jagged-edged, thin bronze sections appear rough, raw, and corroded. The bronze pieces are joined together around a hollow center in such a manner as to further contribute to the illusion of loss and decay through passage of time. The emotional impact, emphasized by the gathering of multiple components, is one of sadness, of heroic tributes left to erode and eventually vanish through neglect. Cunningham’s sculptures in metal and stone, another medium this artist frequently works in, have been presented in solo exhibitions and outdoor installations in New York City, at the United Nations Plaza, for example, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Public art projects include stone memorials constructed to honor significant historical events that took place in Berlin, Cornberg, and Kassel, all cities in Germany. Other works have also been included in numerous group exhibitions in those areas previously mentioned, as well as the El Paso Museum of Art, Texas; the Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, Illinois; Moorhead State University, Lewistown, Kentucky; and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Linda Cunningham has received a theater grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Artists Grant for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to work in Berlin in 1994, and others over the course of her career for sculptures and multi-media collaborations. More information on this artist can be found at http://www.llcunningham.com/. Works by Linda Cunningham currently on view in the sculpture park: War Memorial III, 1987
cast bronze
five figures, each 132” x 36” x 36”
Courtesy of The Sculpture Foundation, Inc. |
