Bigger, Brighter and Bolder Than Ever: Big Art is Back in Concord

Vermont artist David Stromeyer's installation was delivered earlier this month and will be celebrated in June.

Working big, he says, has its challenges and benefits.

“I was very interested in how people move," Stromeyer says about what got him started working on a grand scale. "Even though we’re vertical, we move in horizontal patterns, and I started thinking about what constitutes a wall, a ceiling, an opening – a lot of concerns that architects have, but I didn’t need to be worried about the functional considerations that architects are. So that actually dictated the large scale. I wanted openings that you could go in and into the piece. I was very interested in the interior aspect, as well as the read from a distance.”

But it's not just size. Shape and color factor heavily into his conceptions and installations.

“The other thing that’s pretty obvious here is I’m interested in color, and the reading of color," Stromeyer said, referring to the pieces taking shape on the Umbrella's lawn. "A lot of sculptors, not to belittle them, but a lot of sculptors when they finish a steel piece in particular, paint it red or black and that’s pretty much the story. Finishing of the form is a beginning point for me, and then how the color reads.”