SAUVAGE D.1990, (Detroit Ca Va), Albert Jacobson Memorial Award, First Prize. The 43rd Art of the Northeast USA Exhibition, Silvermine School of Art, New Caanan, CT, 1992. Curated by Eliza Rathbone, chief curator of the Philips Collection, Washington, DC.
Review by Georgette Gouveia, The Journal News, May 31, 2009
"Robert Spinazzola lives in Hastings-on-Hudson. But he began his career as a sculptor in Detroit, and his installation "Gates of Eden"-one of the highlights of the ArtsWestchester's captivating new "Rubbish! Art and the Ecosystem"-is an elegy for the Motor City in the age of the No-Longer- Big- Three. In the steel and oil work, a wolf bares his teeth at Eden's door, which turns out to be part of an unpainted, upside-down Chevrolet. It's a brilliant metaphor for our times, really- at once familiar and unusual, visually succint and viscerally on the money."
