HAMILTON — With two new permanent installations and a temporary exhibition in the works, the City of Sculpture committee is preparing for a busy summer.
The temporary exhibition will include 12 works of art by 10 different artists, said spokesperson Sue Samoviski, former City of Sculpture president.
The sculptures will line the north side of High Street in Hamilton, and some will be placed on the top of the bank of the Great Miami River. Installation of the work is scheduled to take place by the end of June, Samoviski said.
Meanwhile, New York artist Eric David Laxman is putting the finishing touches on “A Conversation in Six Parts,” the work commissioned to fill the planter located in Journal Square.
Laxman will visit Hamilton this summer to supervise the pouring of concrete footings that will anchor the sculptures and to consult with landscapers to select the plants and rocks that will be a part of the overall design, the artist said in an e-mail.
Laxman said that he will arrive in Hamilton on July 8 for the installation. A dedication ceremony has yet to be scheduled.
By the end of the summer, “Family of Man IV” by Cynthia McKean will be in place in the green space on the west end of the High-Main Bridge.
“Family of Man IV” is contains the vision of four figures cut from a single plate of steel and painted bright red.
Samoviski said that the City of Sculpture organization is also busy consulting with seven artists who are participating in a project to place an original mobile in each of the Hamilton City Schools currently under construction.
“A couple of the artist have already sent us ideas and we’ll continue conversations over the summer,” she said. “The people making the decisions will be representatives from the school district, the architects and the City of Sculpture.”
The funding for some of the mobiles has yet to be determined, Samoviski said, because the money is coming from private sources and not from the construction budgets.”
