Artist David Stromeyer Featured in Stamford’s Downtown Abstractions Exhibition

STAMFORD, Conn. - June 17, 2013 - PRLog -- Stamford, CT  Artist David Stromeyer’s sculpture “Fugue” is featured in the outdoor sculpture show, Downtown Abstractions: Art in Public Places, in Stamford, Connecticut, which will run all summer. The piece is inspired by musical rhythms and patterns and their implied movement, in this case a fugue in three voices, suggestive of rich, narrative relationships. The piece is in painted, fabricated steel.

David Stromeyer’s sculptures are often informed by patterns and rhythms in nature and music.  His works imply motion and play with our perceptions of space, evoking questions similar to those posed in architecture: interior vs. exterior, movement and dimensionality.  In the 1980’s, Stromeyer began experimenting with color to nuance the space and evoke a mood.  Form and color are equally weighted. “Finishing the form becomes another starting point,” Stromeyer says.  He is known for choosing colors from a wide-ranging and distinctive palette.

Stromeyer sometimes works on a smaller, outdoor scale, and periodically creates series of indoor works, most recently in aged wood stained with colored inks.    

Currently, David Stromeyer also has a solo exhibition, SHAPING THE VOID: Four Major Outdoor Sculptures, at the Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts, which will run for one year.  His most recent exhibition, Equilibrium: A 40-year Career Retrospective, was hosted in 2012 by Burlington City Arts, in Burlington, Vermont.

Downtown Abstractions is a part of Stamford’s Art in Public Places summertime events, which has been exhibiting artists’ works for 20 years. There are 43 sculptures in the show by 18 artists.  All art is on loan to the city of Stamford by the artists. Many of the pieces showcased will be available to purchase. All art is available to be viewed by the public for free.

About David Stromeyer:

David Stromeyer is a nationally recognized artist with works on display in museum, municipal, university, corporate, and private collections across the country.  The artist fabricates his work in his custom-built Vermont studio that can accommodate his large-scale process.  Working with steel, Stromeyer finds the material powerful and expressive as he experiments with its structural properties by bending, twisting, and pulling it to new extremes.  Treating steel more like plastic, Stromeyer’s sculptures are surprisingly delicate and fluid, and seem to defy gravity as their organic forms gracefully twist and bend into elegant, abstract relationships.  Stromeyer spends the winter months at his Austin, TX studio and home, experimenting with new materials and developing future sculptural projects.

For more information on the artist, visit his website at www.davidstromeyer.com