Final Weeks of Stamford Museum's Winter Exhibit

Stamford, CT — The ingenious inventions of New York sculptor Steve Gerberich are on display for only two more weeks featuring his most outstanding and outlandish large-scale kinetic sculptures and installations. Gerberich’s Gadgets: The Best of Springs, Sprockets & Pulleys continues now through Sunday, February 4, 2018 at the Stamford Museum and Nature Center.

Working with old machine parts, kitchen utensils, furniture scraps, lighting fixtures, toys, and carnival figurines, Gerberich designs ingenious large-scale contemporary sculpture using the scientific principles of simple mechanical motion.

Only two weeks left to strap yourself to the wayback machine and marvel at the ingenuity of more than a dozen large-scale moving sculptures. Wax nostalgic while taking in the complex artistry and visual humor of whimsically familiar objects from a bygone era inventively re-purposed for an unusual and unforgettable ‘art meets science’ experience for all ages.

Featured installation visitors can enjoy include the Cash Cow, a kettle head farmer who endlessly milks this exercise-bike-powered wooden Holstein whose udders move up and down and the Gerberich Grand Orchestra featuring a bespectacled seven-foot tall conductor with cotton mop hair directing six moving musicians highlighted by Woody on trombone with a stovepipe torso and Rollie on drums.

The Stamford Museum Galleries are open Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.; Sundays, 11 a.m.- 5 p.m. SM&NC Members are admitted free of charge; non-members with gate admission. For more information, please visit stamfordmuseum.org.

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About the Artist
Steve Gerberich’s exposure to the arts came early, growing up in a close-knit Iowa family attuned to visual humor and puns. A sculptor with a B.F.A. from the University of Northern Iowa, Steve Gerberich began making art that moves when he relocated to New York City from Iowa in 1985. He set up his first motorized installation in the gallery-filled neighborhood of SoHo, convincing the owners of an abandoned factory to let him use their windows for display in exchange for cleaning the space. His work caught the attention of passers-by, including that of international art collectors and delighted art critics. 

From a pack rat's treasure trove of motors, toys, and other bric-a-brac, Gerberich is an alchemist of odds and ends and always searching for possibilities. A self-proclaimed lover of hand tools or any useful invention without a power cord, his Newburgh NY studio is his own treasure trove of machine parts, motors, fixtures, lampshades, and armies of collectible figurines. 

Gerberich’s mechanical sculptures have traveled around the world. Springs, Sprockets and Pulleys has been exhibited at the Stamford Museum and Nature Center in Stamford CT, Fresno Metropolitan Museum in California and the Berkshire Museum in Massachusetts as well as the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, NC, the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ, the Waterloo Center for the Arts and Muscatine Art Center, both in Iowa and most recently at Science World in Vancouver BC. His Gerberich’s Gadgetry exhibit has also graced the Stamford Museum and Nature Center, the Morris Museum as well as Vermont’s Brattleboro Museum. 

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Stamford Museum & Nature Center

Stamford Museum & Nature Center, a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization, is dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of art and popular culture, the natural and agricultural sciences, and history. The Museum is a vital cultural and educational resource for the community, and a focal point for family activity and interaction, seeking to inspire creativity, foster self-discovery, promote environmental stewardship and nurture an appreciation for lifelong learning through exhibitions, educational programs, and special events that enhance the visitor’s experience of its unique site. Stamford Museum & Nature Center is located at 39 Scofieldtown Road, Stamford, CT (3/4-mile north of Merritt Parkway Exit 35.) For more information call 203.322.1646 or visit www.stamfordmuseum.org.

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