If you're in the downtown Ridgefield area tomorrow morning between 7:30 am and 9:00 am you may catch a glimpse of a 12 ft tall deer traveling down Main Street aboard a flatbed truck.
Tony Tasset's sculpture "Deer" will call The Aldrich Museum's outdoor Sculpture Garden home through March 15, 2020. The installation will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, June 12, and we are told a crane is needed to secure the monstrous white-tailed deer in the garden.
According to The Aldrich website, Tasset has focused many of his recent endeavors on public art with subject matter based primarily in American vernacular visual culture. For his sculpture Deer (2015), Tasset has taken the common white-tailed deer and blown it into what can only be considered monstrous proportions. Hunted to near extinction in much of the United States, the white-tailed deer has made a spectacular comeback, much to the annoyance of both farmers and suburban gardeners. Deer will occupy a site in the Museum’s Sculpture Garden.
The Aldrich is located at 258 Main Street in Ridgefield.
Organized by Richard Klein, Exhibitions Director, and Amy Smith-Stewart, Curator, at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.