Sitting Pretty: The Garden Bench As Sculpture

Berkshire Botanical Garden June 5-through the season

Opening Reception Saturday June 5 from 5-7pm

Hours are 10am-5pm daily
May 1 – Columbus Day
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The Berkshire Botanical Garden is presenting the outdoor benches of six artists in a show curated by Joyce Nereaux. I will be exhibiting three benches and a pair of my planters. This is the first time that I have exhibited three of the four benches in my outdoor series in the same show (Outdoor Bench #2 is on view at the Longhouse Reserve in East Hampton NY). Outdoor Bench #4 was recently completed and makes its debut in the show. The bench features cast concrete, Sapele and Stainless Steel in its 10′ footprint.

Outdoor Bench #4
Sapele, Cast Concrete and Stainless Steel 117″ L x 25″W x 30″ H

Outdoor Bench #3
Mahogany, Cast Concrete 84″L x 22″W x 17″H

Outdoor Bench #1
Sapele 81″L x 21″W x 17″H

By Nico Yektai -
New York based designer/maker Nico Yektai opened the doors to his Hamptons studio in 1995 after completing the MFA program at the School For American Craft at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The rigorous technical training complimented his background in Art History, which he studied, at Hobart College in Geneva NY. Yektai has synthesized this background into a singular style that has gained him national attention. Visit nicoyektai.com for more information

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