Gerald DiGgiusto, Metal Corten Steel Abstract Geometric Folded Origami Sculpture Gerald DiGiusto, 1980

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Gerald DiGiusto (1929 - 1987)
Signed and dated abstract geometric COR-ten steel sculpture, (an all weather steel appropriate for outdoor … more Gerald DiGiusto (1929 - 1987)
Signed and dated abstract geometric COR-ten steel sculpture, (an all weather steel appropriate for outdoor use)
"Folded" Angled Geometric Forms like a paper airplane.
Metal plate with signature and dated 3 80.
Dimensions: Height: 17.5 inches, Width: 7 inches, Depth: 10.5 inches.
This can sit on the floor or be hung as a wall hanging sculpture. there is currently no hardware for hanging.

Gerald Di Giusto was born June 30, 1929 in New York City, the son of immigrant Italian and Jewish parents. His father was the artist Joseph DiGiusto (1901-1980). He grew up in Boston, and as a young man served a stone carving apprenticeship in Quincy, Massachusetts. From 1950 to 1954, while stationed in Tokyo, Japan with the Air Force, he worked in the studio of the Japanese sculptor Iwao Norimatsu. Upon returning to the United States, DiGiusto assisted the Neoclassical sculptor, Ernest Morenon from 1955 to 1957 with commissions for figurative sculptures for cathedrals in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore.
In 1957, he graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 1958 he received a BFA from Yale University where he studied under Josef Albers. Contemporaries at Yale included Claes Oldenburg, Eva Hesse, Nancy Graves, Richard Serra and Jonathan Borofsky. He was offered entry to the MFA program at Yale but turned it down for the chance to continue his pursuits in Italy. Supported by Clarissa Bartlett and Mrs. David Hunt fellowships, DiGiusto studied in Florence, Italy from 1958 to 1960. During this period he learned the art of bronze casting at the University of Florence. His teaching career began in 1960 at the University of Oregon where he was assistant professor of art for two years. From 1962 to 1966 he taught as associate professor of sculpture and drawing at the School of Architecture at Syracuse University, and subsequently became chair and professor of sculpture and drawing in the Art Department at SUNY Cortland. He often served as a visiting critic and lecturer at other universities. This one definitely has a Japanese aesthetic quality to it and bears stylistic similarities to the works of Beverly Pepper and Isamu Noguchi. Just prior to his untimely death on May 15, 1987, he was on sabbatical leave in Florence, Italy, teaching pre-architectural courses for Syracuse University's program abroad. Many of his later sculptures were welded, he also worked in carved wood with painting applied. “DiGiusto’s powerful sculptures beautifully complement the architecture of the Everson’s I.M. Pei building,” Steven Kern, Everson Museum of Art executive director. less