RED BANK: SCULPTURE TO TOP GALLERY
Sergio Furnari’s sculpted rendering of the 1932 photo, below, will be installed outside the Wanderlust Gallery, which will also be decorated with murals. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
The owner of new art gallery approved by Red Bank officials Monday night plans to feature a sculpture based on one of 20th-century America’s most iconic photographs on its exterior.
Sergio Furnari’s “Lunchtime on a Skyscraper – A Tribute to America’s Heroes,” will sit atop a parapet at the rear of the Clay Street building, says Wanderlust Gallery owner Ken Schwartz, who also plans to add mad dashes of color in the form of murals to brighten up a drab stretch of garages and parking lots.
“I didn’t look at this as signage,” Schwartz told the planning board, which unanimously granted him variances for murals he plans to have painted on the long-vacant warehouse. “I look at it as the building itself being a piece of artwork.”
