Sculpture Art Exhibit Debuts at ESU October 5 – November

East Stroudsburg University’s Madelon Powers Gallery will feature two exhibits focusing on different elements of sculpture—smalls, Ronald Gonzalez, sculpture; and Recent Work: Andrew Molinaro, blacksmithing—from October 5 through November 6.

Hours for the gallery, located in the university’s Fine and Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg, are 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays, and 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays. The gallery will be closed on Monday, October 12.

A reception for the artists will be held on Wednesday, October 7 from 4-6 p.m. in the gallery. Both the exhibit and reception are open to the public at no cost.

“These small figures are part of my lifelong obsession with creating anthropomorphized objects,” Ronald Gonzalez said, explaining his work. “As a young boy growing up in Binghamton, N.Y., I would find smalls from the woods and streets to make toys and playthings. I visualized a world in small that I could hold in the palm of my hand in secret and save from being lost forever.”

Drawing on the tradition of assemblage art and focusing on the upright figure, Gonzalez creates elegiac sculptures and installations with steel armatures, time worn objects, and detritus from his surroundings. His creations are the embodiments of death and loss infused with psychic energy, grotesque narrative and witty pathos.

Gonzalez has had numerous solo exhibits at major galleries throughout the United States, South America, and Europe. His sculptures are in the collections of museums and galleries throughout the United States.

A professor of sculpture at the State University of New York-Binghamton since 1999, Gonzalez is a recent recipient of the university’s Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.

Stroudsburg artist-blacksmith Andrew Molinaro sees metal as “an elegant material. People think of steel as being big and heavy, but it has a profound elegance.”

Molinaro opened his studio, Artisans of the Anvil, in Stroudsburg in 2000 and specializes in the fine craft of blacksmithing for residential and commercial architectural ironwork in both traditional and contemporary styles. The company has completed major restoration projects such as the Federal Reserve Bank of Manhattan and Longwood Gardens as well as for private homes, estates and public areas.

Molinaro started smithing as an apprentice at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire and worked up to head blacksmith. He also apprenticed with the firm Stokes of England located in Charlottesville, Va. In the last few years, Molinaro has been creating more individual, expressive pieces which are the focus of the current exhibit.

For more information about the exhibits or reception, email esuarts@esu.edu or call the Fine and Performing Arts Events Line at 570-422-3483.

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