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Title: Muse II
Artist(s): Michael Poast (Long Island City, NY)
Year of Creation: 2006
Other Dates: Installed May 21, 2008 on loan from the artist
Medium: Welded steel (painted)
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 7.5 x 2 x 0.5 ft.
Description: This work was created by splitting a steel I-beam vertically with a cutting torch and spreading apart the resulting two halves. The brightly painted surfaces focus the viewer's immediate attention on the steel shapes created by the cutting torch in the interior of the beam, but just as important to the work is the negative space playfully created between the steel forms.
Hamlet: Huntington Village
Street/Site Location: Heckscher Park, 2 Prime Ave.
Owner/Administrator: On loan from the artist, administered by the Town of Huntington Public Art Initiative
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| Title: Stick Figures
Artist(s): James (Slim) Cook (Shoreham, NY)
Year of Creation: 2008
Other Dates: Modified in 2010; installed in 2012
Medium: Galvanized steel conduit, copper pipe, & copper wire
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): Each figure approx. 7-8 ft. tall
Description: Four stylized "stick figures" of performing artists are suspended between support posts on the sides of the Chapin Rainbow Stage (two per side).
Hamlet: Huntington Village
Street/Site Location: Heckscher Park, 2 Prime Ave.
Owner/Administrator: On loan from the artist, administered by the Town of Huntington Public Art Initiative
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Title: Ladder 3
Artist(s): Charles Politakes
Other Dates: Installed Fall 2012 on loan from the artist
Year of Creation: 2012
Medium: Cor-ten & stainless steel
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 18.5 x 2 x 0.25 ft.
Description: This intriguing works consists of a pair of 18 ½’ tall spires made of Cor-ten & stainless steel formed in the shape of opposing sine waves. As the viewer walks around Heckscher Pond these closely grouped spires appear to gradually interweave and separate in an unending cycle as one’s viewpoint changes.
Hamlet: Huntington Village
Street/Site Location: Heckscher Park, 2 Prime Ave.
Owner/Administrator: On loan from the artist, administered by the Town of Huntington Public Art Initiative
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Title: Two Schools of Thought
Artist(s): John Scarola (Kings Park, NY)
Year of Creation: 2009
Other Dates: Installed June 2012 on loan from the artist
Medium: Painted wood
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 12 ft. x 16 ft. x 2 in.
Description: A stylized school of yellow fish with blue stripes swimming from the left confronts a similar school of blue fish with yellow stripes swimming from the right, provoking viewers to ponder issues of diversity and tolerance.
Hamlet: Cold Spring Harbor
Street/Site Location: Billy Joel Park, NYS Rt. 25A
Owner/Administrator: On loan from the artist, administered by the Town of Huntington Public Art Initiative
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Title: Walking Trees/Talking Trees
Artist(s): Richard Kirk Mills, with students from Northport High School & C.W. Post/L.I. University
Year of Creation: 2006
Medium: Etched zinc printing plates
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): Each plaque: 14 x 7 x 1/16 in. (height varies)
Description: Sixteen different zinc plaques attached to trees along the perimeter trail in Dix Hills Park. (Trail begins on either side of the Park entrance gates.) Plaques are etched with tree identification drawings and text, along with an action verb celebrating the active role that trees play in our environment.
Hamlet: Dix Hills
Street/Site Location: Dix Hills Park, 575 Vanderbilt Pkwy.
Owner/Administrator: On loan from the artist, administered by the Town of Huntington Public Art Initiative
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Title: Untitled #191
Artist(s): Michael Joseph Hibbard (Buffalo, NY)
Other Dates: Installed May 29, 2009 on loan from the artist
Year of Creation: 2008
Medium: Welded sheet steel (painted)
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 12 x 4 x 6 ft.
Description: This roughly pentagonal, monumental steel column is "bent" in two places in a shape similar to a crooked finger, with the faces on the interior of the hooked form painted bright aquamarine in contrast to the unpainted exterior faces.
Hamlet: Huntington Village
Street/Site Location: Heckscher Park, 2 Prime Ave.
Owner/Administrator: On loan from the artist, administered by the Town of Huntington Public Art Initiative
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Title: Untitled #203
Artist(s): Michael Joseph Hibbard (Buffalo, NY)
Other Dates: Installed May 29, 2009 on loan from the artist
Year of Creation: 2008
Medium: Welded sheet steel (painted) & plastic mesh
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 15 x 5 x 0.5 ft.
Description: This 15' high sculpture consists of two deep blue, drooping steel loops, one inside the other, suspended from a tree, with the center of the interior loop filled by a dark-purple plastic mesh.
Hamlet: Huntington Village
Street/Site Location: Heckscher Park, 2 Prime Ave.
Owner/Administrator: On loan from the artist, administered by the Town of Huntington Public Art Initiative
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Title: Untitled #218
Artist(s): Michael Joseph Hibbard (Buffalo, NY)
Other Dates: Installed May 29, 2009 on loan from the artist
Year of Creation: 2008
Medium: Welded sheet steel (painted)
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 5.7 x 9.5 x 3.75 ft.
Description: This angular steel geometric sculpture has the appearance of being a horizontal rectangular form transformed by tectonic forces that have fractured and contorted its planes into a new geometry, accentuated by the stark division of the work into white (lower) and dark brown (upper) painted halves whose common boundary further fractures these forms.
Hamlet: Huntington Village
Street/Site Location: Heckscher Park, 2 Prime Ave.
Owner/Administrator: On loan from the artist, administered by the Town of Huntington Public Art Initiative
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| Title: Bookworms
Artist(s): John A. Bell (West Islip, NY)
Year of Creation: 2014
Other Dates: Installed August 2017 on loan from the artist
Medium: Welded steel (painted)
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): Grouping of six (6) elements @ 6 x 2 x 2 ft.
Description: A grouping of six colorful, vertical figurative elements topped by distinctive human-like heads presents a herd of "bookworms" each holding an open "book." (This work was installed as part of a year-long outdoor sculpture exhibition in tribute to the late Fort Salonga sculptor, David Haussler, who has two of his works installed nearby as recent gifts to the Town.)
Hamlet: Huntington Station
Street/Site Location: Fair Meadow Park, NW corner of Park Ave. & Pulaski Rd.
Owner/Administrator: On loan from the artist, administered by the Town of Huntington Public Art Initiative
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| Title: Please
Artist(s): John A. Bell (West Islip, NY)
Year of Creation: 2014
Other Dates: Installed August 2017 on loan from the artist
Medium: Welded steel
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 6.75 x 5 x 3 ft.
Description: A grouping of three abstract figurative elements, two seemingly "adult" figures and one smaller "child" figure on a rectangular steel plate base. The "child" appears to be pleading with the central "adult" figure, while the second "adult" turns away. (This work was installed as part of a year-long outdoor sculpture exhibition in tribute to the late Fort Salonga sculptor, David Haussler, who has two of his works installed nearby as recent gifts to the Town.)
Hamlet: Huntington Station
Street/Site Location: Fair Meadow Park, NW corner of Park Ave. & Pulaski Rd.
Owner/Administrator: On loan from the artist, administered by the Town of Huntington Public Art Initiative
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| Title: Thumbs Up
Artist(s): Debra Ann Kasimakis (Hicksville, NY)
Year of Creation: 2006
Other Dates: Installed August 2017 on loan from the artist
Medium: Sheet steel
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 48 x 48 x 0.25 in.
Description: The 4-foot high silhouette of a hand making a "thumbs up" gesture. (This work was installed as part of a year-long outdoor sculpture exhibition in tribute to the late Fort Salonga sculptor, David Haussler, who has two of his works installed nearby as recent gifts to the Town.)
Hamlet: Huntington Station
Street/Site Location: Fair Meadow Park, NW corner of Park Ave. & Pulaski Rd.
Owner/Administrator: On loan from the artist, administered by the Town of Huntington Public Art Initiative
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