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"Homage to Spring"
by Arline Shulman
1970s


 
"Pure Gold"
by Arline Shulman
1970s

Arline (Pearman) Schulman: (1937- ) Bio

It has been said more than once that Arline Shulman makes steel dance. She is an artist of ever-widening reputation who creates welded steel abstract sculpture. "What I do," she once said, "is take basic, ugly, raw structural steel, give it form and a color that creates vitality. It is from counterbalancing of form that dynamic tension is created."
 
The notion of making steel dance is not an idle metaphor. She has conceived much of her work in relation to choreography and even took up folk dancing and modern dance to experience the same kind of tilting movement she seeks to create in her sculpture. "Both sculpture and dance," she says, "have to do with the balancing of tension in space. I try to tilt the steel so the energy will flow."

Ms. Schulman's work has been acquired by many prestigious private and public collectors. Arline Shulman is originally from Averill Park, NY, and is best known for her monumental works such as those seen in front of the Schenectady Library and at the entrance to Charles Industrial Park, Albany, and at many other universities and public spaces. In the 1970's she created more manageable-sized painted steel sculptures such as those seen in our park.

Thank you to the Louis Domanico Estate for the donation of Arline's sculptures. Lou and Susan Domanico lived directly across the street from the Breitenbach's and were best friends for over 40 years.

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