RARE One Of A Kind Sculpture Of New York Artist MOLLY MASON Titled Summer Moon

  
Personal note from the artist included. Molly Mason, who has created many large-scale works nationally and internationally for architectural and natural settings for over 35 years, strives to integrate the particular public's values and needs with each unique environment.

Projects utilize media such as cast concrete/ceramic tile structures with seating, water features; stainless steel, aluminum and bronze sculptural elements, kiln formed glass elements, walkways and landscaping. She achieves a sense of a "private, " intimate space within the larger natural world or "public" environment. Among over 45 awards, a Fulbright Senior Research Professorship to Japan enabled her to study form, space and iconic relationships in the "controlled nature" of Japanese garden design over centuries, centered in Kyoto.

Mason has had 20 solo exhibits, has appeared in over 150 curated group shows, and has approximately 200 sculptures in public, corporate, and private collections in the U. Mason has recently completed Calliope, an outdoor sculpture as centerpiece for the Germantown Performing Arts Center, a vibrant cultural center near Memphis, Tennessee. Awarded through a national competition, this work is comprised of stainless steel, hot-forged bronze, and kiln-formed glass, and is 12.5' x 6.5' x 6'. She has also created two large sculptural works for the State of Utah for the LEED-certified Barker Family Health Technology Building at Ogden Weber Technical College in Ogden, awarded through a highly competitive process. She created one major interior work for a 35' H x 100' L x 40' W building and a corresponding exterior work as well, in stainless steel, forged bronze, kiln-formed glass, and large elements of local Utah stone.

"Before the Sun Speaks" is a public artwork for two major sculptural works/water feature for Kirkwood College Conference Center, also a LEED-certified building, Cedar Rapids, IA. Each work is in stainless steel and kiln-formed glass. One work is 15' H x 7' across x 6' deep and weighs 2000 pounds; the other is 15' H x 4' x 4' and weighs 1500 pounds. One of the sculptures is plumbed for water, and the works are situated in the stunning, glass-walled 25' H x 150' L x 45' W lobby for the Conference Center.

Other nationally awarded, public projects include "Waiting for the Ocean" (University of Central Florida; 12' x 24' x 32') which features a polychromed, curved stainless "wall" form with richly designed negative cut-outs and a stainless steel water feature, seating and walkways; "Albuquerque Walls, " 8.5' x 60' x 8.5' a Percent for Art Public Transit project including five curved, cast concrete "walls" with seating areas and covered with eight colors of blue ceramic tile, reflecting the blue southwestern sky, in a park between Albuquerque's historical Old Town and modern downtown. "Woven Dreams" (River Oaks Cultural Center, Alexandria, LA), "Aurora I and II (Northwest Medical Center, Tucson, AZ), in which forged bronze surfaces interplay dynamically with kiln-formed glass elements' rich colors, and "Eclipse (Meyer Amphitheater, West Palm Beach) are works of rich contrasting metals and colors. Additional examples of Mason's public works include sculptures for Galerie Modern, Vienna, VA; the President's Suite, State Street Bank, Boston; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; Historic Constructions, New Orleans; Port Jefferson School District; Liberty Property Trust, Greenville, SC; Nano Systems, Philadelphia; Meyer Ampitheater, City of West Palm Beach, Florida (national competition); Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Collegeville, PA; James Michener Museum, Doylestown, PA; City of Brisbane, Australia; Long Island Cultural Center, NY; National Sculpture Parks of Hungary and Slovenia; 5 large works each for a New Orleans botanical garden and the Spelce Collection, Austin, TX; works for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines' "Splendor of the Seas, " Norway; Central Louisiana Light and Power Co. Warwick Hotel, Houston; Elena Corporation, New York City; Acadiana Bank, Baton Rouge; and Tower & Perrin Corporation, Stamford, CT and NYC, and several Japanese and Dutch collections.

In creating site-specific sculptures, Mason has always worked creatively and productively with commissioning groups, architects, designers, and local stakeholders. Her commissions have been received with great enthusiasm by the public for which they were created, due to her ability to integrate the sculpture with the client's needs and specific environment. Aside from the Fulbright, Mason has won a Soros Foundation Fellowship to broaden cultural understanding through art at the Villany International Sculpture Symposium and Sculpture Park, where she created the stone sculpture Caverne Coeur, 9' x 5' x 4'.

She also was selected to create sculpture at the Forma Viva International Sculpture Symposium in then-Yugoslavia for the Forma Viva International Sculpture Park, creating Karyatid I and II, two 18' x 3' x 4' oak sculptures on-site for permanent placement there. Mason has additionally won membership in the invitation-based Sculptors Guild, NYC (founded in 1932), and has won: two New York Foundation for the Arts Special Opportunity Stipends; a Visiting Artist Grant for Vermont Studio Center and one for the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosedale, NY; a Millay Colony for the Arts Fellowship, NY; an American Association of University Women Research Grant; highly-competitive Louisiana and Minnesota Individual Artist Fellowships; one of six yearlong Lilly Teaching Fellowships, and over twenty university research fellowships. Mason's sculptures are meticulously created of the highest quality materials and techniques, so vital to sculpture's long-term quality for outdoor/indoor placements. Expert in a wide variety of sculptural materials and technologies, Mason has been a professional welder for over 35 years.