John Henry

For the past several months, John's monumental sculpture "Star Pointer" has been on exhibit at the Bayfront Exhibition of The Sarasota Season of Sclupture.  The biennale invitational selects 26 monumental works by sculptors from the US and abroad.  This year's exhibitors were selected by leaders from distinguished art institutions including: the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and the High Museum of Art.

Star Pointer is an impressive addition to the showcase of sculpture, and towers above the bay at a height of 70 feet.  Sarasota Magazine writer Mark Ormond, describes Star Pointer's presence on the bayfront as "massive" and explains how John's arrangement of the heavy metal slabs work to "actively engage and animate the space [Star Pointer] occupies."

Among this year's Sarasota Season of Sculpture artists are Albert Paley, Bruce White, Barry Hehemann, Gillian Christy, Heinz Aeschlimann, James Brenner, Leonardo Nierman, Niki De Saint Phalle, Rob Lorenson, and Seward Johnson.  The monumental sculpture will be on exhibit through May 26, 2008.  For more info please go to the corresponding website: http://www.sarasotaseasonofsculpture.org/