“Ribbon’s Little Sister” by Alan Binstock, at Mabel Munch Park

I am an architect and a sculptor. Now retired from Master Planning at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, my central focus is sculpture. The School Of Architecture imparted a unique perspective in three-dimensional design. For me, public art is the perfect union of fine art and architecture. My public pieces to date make places at entrances to buildings and communities. My sculpture has been shown in Ft. Tryon Park New York City near the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Cloisters, as well as local and national galleries. Before Master Planning at NASA, I worked for many years in several architecture firms, focusing on residential and small scale commercial projects.
I am a long time student of Yoga. Previously I taught and lived in an ashram in Connecticut. Earlier I was a carpenter, school bus driver, foundry worker, cabinet maker and Fine Arts teacher in the South Bronx.
While at the Goddard Space Flight Center I had a continued exposure to near and deep space images which are powerful influences on my work. My ongoing education in construction methods and materials, and my exposure to quantum physics and Eastern metaphysics are a continuous source of rich subject matter over these past twenty years of creating and exhibiting sculpture, and large public art. I want my work to catalyze a sense of excited inquiry and quietude, and hopefully, a moment of self-reflection. I am interested in exploring processes and materials, employing the changing qualities of daylight. The expression of light is very important to my work. My goal is to draw people into, and through the work, so that they become vicarious participants in, and part of its creation. As a lay person, I can both celebrate the frontiers of science and take poetic license with scientific theory in the creation of sculptural experience. I investigate forms that express the nature of the seeker’s inner passage while capturing the wonder of the explorer’s outward search to find meaning in the universe.
Per your request, I leave it to your best judgement where to site the sculpture. A site that allows good vehicular access is a plus.