#admNewJerseyArtCrawl General Bronze by sculptor, Marisol Escobar, 1997 Bronze Seen at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey Photo Credit: Alice Lowe Maria Sol Escobar (born May 22, 1930), otherwise known simply as Marisol, is a sculptor born in Paris of Venezuelan lineage, working in New York City. From 1951 to 1954 she took courses at the New School for Social Research while studying under her most influential mentor, the so-called "dean of Abstract Expressionism", Hans Hofmann. At Hofmann’s schools in Greenwich Village and Provincetown, Massachusetts, Marisol became acquainted with notions of the "push and pull" dynamic: of forcing dichotomies between raw and finished states. During this period, Marisol was introduced to New York's Cedar Tavern, the chief watering hole for many of the leading Abstract Expressionists with whom Marisol became friends, particularly Willem de Kooning. Ref: Wikipedia #ArtandDesignMatters #admSupportsTheArts #BronzeSculpture #GroundsForSculpture #MarisolEscobar #HamiltonNewJersey #MariaSolEscobar #ArtHistory #SculptureGarden #Sculpture #NewJerseyArt #ArtInNewJersey #midcentury #modernism #midcenturymodernism #modernart #twentiethcenturyart #GeneralBronze #admMuseumSupport