In 1978, Stanley Lindwasser was one of 7 arts in residents at the Brooklyn Museum, for an exhibit they had to offer artists a different set of surroundings to make their art. Stanley constructed a rope installation atop the glass house in the museum’s sculpture garden.
From the 1978 press release from the Brooklyn Museum:
“April 21, 1978 For ARTYARD II, a special program at The Brooklyn Museum, Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue, each of seven artists-in-residence is creating a sculptural or painted work for a specific site in the Museum’s back lot. The program will continue through May 15. David H. Katzive, the Museum’s Assistant Director for Education and Program Development, says that Artyard II, modeled after Artpark in upstate New York, is intended to provide the public with an opportunity to see one phase of an artist’s work process, to encounter works of art in unexpected places, and to offer artists an opportunity to experiment in an environment conceived as a visual arts ‘laboratory’.” The seven artists involved are Emily Elman, Thomas Farmer, Harriet Feigenbaum, Herbert George, Stanley Lindwasser, Toshio Odate, and Dmitri Wright. Admission to The Brooklyn Museum is free.”
Stanley Lindwasser made a “support system for a grid of multi-colored ropes” which strung in a “carefully orchestrated pattern atop the glass house in the museum’s sculpture garden.”
That would have been amazing to experience in person. If you have any pictures of the sculpture when it was up, please get in touch with us!