For Immediate Release:   May 18, 2009

Join Sculptor Stephen Glassman for the Official
“White Tail Plaza” Debut and Artist Reception
At LNR Warner Center in Woodland Hills
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

LOS ANGELES, CA – White Tail Plaza, Los Angeles sculptor Stephen Glassman’s large-scale sculptural plaza, transforms the LNR Warner Center campus from a corporate complex to a meditative retreat. Completed in December 2008, White Tail Plaza will have its’ official debut and artist reception on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 from 5:00 – 8:00pm. The evening will include the performance of a site-specific dance work by celebrated choreographers Sarah Elgart and Holly Rothchild entitled “Stir,” enhancing viewers’ experience of the sculpture and its environs. Light refreshments will be served and parking is free for those attending the event. White Tail Plaza is located within LNR Warner Center adjacent to Intuit’s Innovative Merchant Solutions Building at 21215 Burbank Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA 91367. For more information please call 213-840-1201.

Stephen Glassman’s Venice studio is engaged in the creation of large-scale permanent national and international public art works. He represents a new generation of public artists that, in addition to a studio and gallery history, have always created work on the street — art for art’s sake in a social context.

At the center of Glassman’s pond-shaped White Tail Plaza are two rock “islands” featuring integrated seating and a view of indigenous grasses and trees. Come twilight, the islands glow from within to become the plaza’s illumination. A maelstrom of steel emerges from the larger of these islands and unwinds toward the sky evoking an aviary space. Across the parking lot just beyond the periphery, a third sculpture rises and arches over the campus sidewalks to create a corporate entryway. In total, the sculptures create a 4000-square-foot plaza by fusing forms from nature with steel and light. The weavings and unravelings suggest both natural and man-made systems.

Woodland Hills was once riparian grassland — the L.A. River originally ran through here before it was concreted and channeled away to make room for twentieth century development. This history and metamorphosis is memorialized in the work.

White Tail Plaza is by design both contemplative and confrontational, and speaks to the complicated relationship between man and nature. White Tail Plaza is a public/private commission of LNR Property Corporation (www.lnrwarnercenter.com) and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (www.culturela.org).

About the artist, Stephen Glassman –
Stephen Glassman has worked in many diverse venues and mediums over the past 29 years including Paris Opera, Moscow Circus, Santa Monica Museum of Art, White Columns, Artists’ Space, and Thomas Solomon… and collaborators include Jonathan Borofsky, Philippe Petit, Sarah Elgart, and Oguri. His work caught international attention in the early 1990s when he began creating large-scale freeform structural bamboo installations in devastated urban sites around Los Angeles in the aftermath of the Rodney King Riots, Malibu Fires and Northridge Quake. These works became symbols of resiliency in their L.A. communities.

Recent and significant projects by Stephen Glassman include the Sylvia Campuan Bridge in Ubud Bali, SK8I80, sculpture for a Skate Park in Salt Lake City, UT, and Southeast Shear in Pine Bluff, AR. The Arkansas project, a NEA / Hillary Clinton White House Millennium Fellowship, was an 80′ tall x 90′ wide x 140′ long freeform timber construction and plaza in this languishing Arkansas bayou city. Currently in production is the Soto Bridge project here in Los Angeles, as well as sculptures commissioned to debut over the coming year in Calgary, Canada; San Jose, CA; and Seattle, WA.

About the developer, LNR –
Headquartered in Newport Beach, CA, LNR Commercial Property Group is a private company that operates as the real estate development and investment division of LNR Property Corporation, a $3 billion company with corporate headquarters in Miami Beach, FL. LNR is a market leader in the master planning and development of commercial properties and is invested in large commercial developments and redevelopment transactions that range in size from $10 million to more than $100 million. Supported by 15 offices across the United States, LNR has been responsible for the successful development, redevelopment and repositioning of more than 1,000 properties in 33 states during the last 15 years. Its expertise extends to a range of property types including office, industrial, retail, apartments, hotels, land and military base reuse. Additional information about LNR Commercial Property Group is available at www.LNRcpg.com.

About Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs –
The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) both generates and supports high quality arts and cultural experiences for Los Angeles residents and visitors. DCA advances the social and economic impact of the arts and assures access to arts and cultural experiences through grant making, marketing, public and community arts programming, arts education, and creating partnerships with artists and arts and cultural organizations in every community in the City of Los Angeles. This art project is in satisfaction of an Arts Development Fee obligation, Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.

For more information, photos, or to set up interviews, please contact Green Galactic’s Lynn Hasty at 213-840-1201 or lynn@greengalactic.com.

For LNR inquiries, please contact Melinda Hall-Wood at 949-885-8245 or mhallwood@LNRProperty.com.