SAMUEL NIGRO

Samuel Nigro is a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow and New York-based artist, who has shown nationally and internationally. He has benefited from numerous awards, among them residencies at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Ucross, Yaddo, and MacDowell, as well as additional grants from the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation.

This site is a portal to other sites that showcase his work.

My earliest thought on stone occurred with my sister. She was six. I was two. We collected stones and broke them with our father's hammer. We gathered the pieces and put them back together, placing the new stone gently on the ground. The shards would shift, wabble and fall to their natural resting place. The broken stones formed a long line dividing our asphalt driveway in two. This memory - a lesson about unity, change and intention; their opposites and the many grades in between - contains all the raw material that fuels my sculptural approach.

This link takes you to Samuel Nigro's New York Foundation for the Arts fiscal sponsorship page, featuring The Strategic Placement of Stone. This sculptural project is a 9-ton block of granite that has been split in two and placed at the north end of Cadman Plaza Park near the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, from June 2008 until May 2009. You will have to register with NYFA (a free and painless process) in order to see this page.

This link takes you to Samuel Nigro's artist page at the Artist Space Irving Sandler Artist File. Here, you can access images of his recent work, as well as an artist statement and biography.

This link takes you to a site published in 2004 that features Samuel Nigro's earlier work.