Outdoor Sculptures

In 2017, the Hardy family increased their art collection by almost 15%. Many of the pieces added were sculptures that you can now view throughout the entirety of Nemacolin’s property. From the abstract and vibrant to the Native American influences of the pieces collected in Santa Fe, the family’s sculpture collection truly embodies the Hardy’s eclectic interest in the arts.

Bruno Catalano created an extraordinary series of eye-catching bronze sculptures called The Travelers depicting realistic human workers with parts of their bodies missing. The missing parts of the sculptures allow room for the imagination — are they missing something, or is it something that these “travelers” have simply left behind? Appearing to stand on very little support, they feel ethereal and surreal.

Barrett’s sculptures of fabricated aluminum, bronze, or steel combine abstract and representational elements and are celebrated for interplay between positive and negative space and balance. His work is coupled with a voluminous use of materials in graceful motion.

Nic Noblique is a Texas-based sculptor who harnesses a rebellious and tenacious need to succeed on his own terms. Growing up immersed in the punk rock, skateboard, and snowboard culture of the Midwest, Noblique’s passion for art and design has led to nearly fifteen years of notable achievements, installations, competitions, and exhibitions.

A man of many passions, Noblique placed in the first winter X Games (1997) for snowboarding but retired and went on to study pliable materials engineering, which led to him patenting a new “center-point, concave” skate deck that remains the industry standard today.

A Surge of Red

HeIs,TheyAreis a truly humbling piece about the hardships the Native Americans faced. The figure’s hands are literally “tied” as he contemplates the struggles of his people. The Hardy family’s Goodacre piece HeIs,TheyAreis number 5/15 with another in the edition belonging to the private collection of Michael Jackson’s estate.

Glenna Goodacre is a sculptor best known for designing the obverse of the Sacagawea dollar that entered circulation in the United States in 2000, as well as the Vietnam Women’s Memorial located in Washington, D.C. Featuring lively expressions and textures, Goodacre’s art appears in public, private, municipal, and museum collections throughout the U.S. Glenna Goodacre retired from sculpting in 2016, and passed away in 2020.

Wendy Taylor was one of the first artists of her generation to “take art out of the galleries and into the streets.” She has an impressive range of sitespecific sculptures, one of which is Nemacolin’s SquarePiece. The SquarePiece demonstrates the element of continuity in Taylor’s career, and stands as a personal monument, commemorating the difficulties that she had to overcome of being a woman sculptor in a modern, industrial democracy. Passionately using art as a form of communication, Taylor’s fine examples of industrial craft are built to last and often symbolize the place in which the sculptures stand.