Four Corners Arts Center Present, 20th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit

The Arts Center is pleased to welcome back as curator of their outdoor sculpture park, Kate Mullen.  The chosen theme is, "Gestures of That Other Life" from on a poem written by Rhode Island poet, David O’Connell in response to this year’s scluptor, Wendy Klemperer’s work.


Wendy Klemperer earned a bachelor’s in biochemistry at Harvard before moving to New York and earning a B.F.A. in sculpture at Pratt Institute in 1983. Her work has been exhibited extensively in NYC and throughout the United States, including installations at Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY, Bridgewater-Lustberg Gallery, NY, NY, Pratt Institute Sculpture Park, Brooklyn, NY, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, and Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT, as well as comprehensive solo shows at Maine Audubon, Freeport, and Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, organized by June LaCombe.

David O’Connell’s chapbook, A Better Way to Fall, was awarded the 2013 Philbrick Poetry Award from the Providence Athenaeum. His poetry has appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Drunken Boat, Fugue, and Poet Lore, among other journals. He has also received fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.


Kate Mullen is past president of EVAC (Engaging Visual Artist Collaborative) is an organization which is in charge of Rhode Island College’sSculpture Tour, which “is an outdoor sculpture program on the Rhode Island College campus where professional artists lease their sculptures to be displayed on campus in two year cycles. The program is designed so that students will be exposed to an extensive amount of sculptures throughout their college career at Rhode Island College. The Sculpture Tour is a modern reflection on the ever changing world of public art, a constant evolution in creativity.”