ASTORIA — An exhibit opened at Socrates Sculpture Park this weekend with 15 new outdoor artworks on display, including one that fills the park's trees with dozens of musical chimes.
The works are part of the park's annual Emerging Artists Fellowship, a yearly competition for contemporary sculptors in which the winners are granted funding as well as use of the park's studio spaces. The new pieces debuted Saturday and will be on view through March.
Among them is artist David Horvitz's installation, "lullaby for a landscape," which features 54 aluminum alloy chimes that are hung from branches in a grove of trees. Each chime is a note from the lullaby "All the Pretty Little Horses," according to a press release from Socrates.
The artist also planted a number of fragrant night-flowering plants in the park to accompany the piece, including chamomile and jasmine, organizers said.
Other new works in the exhibit include a piece from Aaron Suggs, who crafted a small, functional sail boat out of plywood, fiberglass and other materials, which will float in the East River adjacent to the waterfront park.
Another is "Full Tilt," a sculpture by artists Charlotte Becket and Roger Sayre that recreates the front of a neighborhood bodega, but tipped over and embedded into the ground. The piece is meant to speak to "the demise of local business while positing a playful altered reality," according to Sayre's website.
The Emerging Artists Fellowship Exhibition will be on view at Socrates Sculpture Park until March 13. The park is located on Vernon Boulevard between Broadway and 31st Drive, and is open everyday from 10 a.m. to sunset.
