Robert Ressler Mantis
Riverside Park
April 10 - October 31, 1991
About the Exhibition
Robert Ressler’s Mantis, installed at Riverside Park, is made of a series of carved wooden forms that are bolted together to create a large praying mantis, sized 12’ x 18’. The weight of the sculpture is approximately 3,000 pounds. Ressler (b. 1954, Brooklyn, NY) explains, “Mantis is intended as an antidote; a respite from urban turmoil; a whimsical metaphor which comments on violence without anger or blame.”
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Riverside Park
Sponsored by The Public Art Fund, Inc., which is supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
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