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AARON BINDMAN BLACK FOLK ART SCULPTURE DAVID SLAYIN

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AARON BINDMAN BLACK FOLK ART SCULPTURE DAVID SLAYING GOLIATH, IN UNFINISHED STAGE. AARON BINDMAN IS 92 YEARS OLD AND NOT WORKING ANYMORE. HE STILL LIVES IN NEW PALTZ, N.Y. WITH HIS WIFE LOUISE, AND ARE RETIRING TO SMALLER QUARTERS. THIS WAS THE LAST PIECE HE WAS WORKING ON, AND WE FOUND IT FROM HIS WORSHOP. HIS WIFE LOUISE SAID IT IS TITLED "DAVID SLAYING GOLIATH". AARON HAS SHOWN HIS WORKS LOCALLY, IN GALLERIES IN SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, AND OAXACA MEXICO, WHERE THEY WINTERED FOR MANY YEARS AND AARON SCULPTED. KNOWN FOR HIS AFRICAN AMERICAN SCULPTURES, INCLUDING SOME EXTREMELY LARGE PIECES. HE IS A RETIRED HEAD OF THE SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT FROM THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW PALTZ. "LOUISE JUST CALLED ME AND SAID AARON WAS A UNION CARPENTER, AND DUE TO A BACK INJURY, RETURNED TO SCHOOL, WHERE HE EARNED HIS BACHELORS, MASTERS, AND PHD IN SOCIOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. IF YOU GOOGLE AARON, YOU CAN SEE WHAT A REMARKABLE LIFE HE HAS LIVED, AN IS LIVING TODAY....THE PIECE IS 39" HIGH, AND 39" ACROSS AT WIDEST POINT, QUITE HEAVY, APPROX. 80 POUNDS OR SO....THERE IS A SMALL HOLE IN TOP OF HEAD WHERE A EYE HOOK WAS REMOVED, THE PIECE HUNG FROM A PULLEY, AS HE WORKED ON IT. HERE IS AN OLDER WRITE UP ON ONE OF HIS SHOWS : There are currently six sculptures by Aaron Bindman, professor emeritus of sociology, in various locations on campus. Peter D.G. Brown (Foreign Languages) said, "As a professional sociologist, Bindman's work is filled with social criticism, crying out against brutality, racism and poverty." The newest, "Why?" a 48-inch cherry wood depiction of a woman holding an infant and begging, has been installed in the lounge area on the second floor of the Humanities Building. A notebook which Bindman placed near it is now filled with the thoughtful comments of students moved by the sculpture. A contemplative woman titled "�Que Me Pasara?" (What Will Be My Fate?) made of eucalyptus, can be seen on the third floor of Humanities. Three in the lobby of the Jacobson Faculty Tower are the cherry wood farmer "Man With Hoe," the maple soldier titled "We Won," and "La Indigena" (Indigenous woman), a chained woman carved of the Mexican wood jacaranda. The Sojourner Truth Library houses "Net Nie-Blankes" (For People of Color Only), which, according to Bindman "depicts and protests the incarceration of Nelson Mandela." This sculpture is also made of a Mexican wood � guirisiyaa.

GOOD, AS FOUND IN UNFINISHED STAGE

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