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Can Newport reverse decades-old population decline?<\/h2>\n

This article in PROVIDENCE BUSINESS NEWS, Friday, December 2, 2016, highlights Sigma Surfacing\u2019s recent invention for efficiently applying building envelopes.
You can see the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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NEW APPROACH: Howard Newman, owner of Newport art-restoration company Newman Ltd., demonstrates a patent-pending invention for a new way of putting siding on buildings.<\/p>\n

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Howard Newman with Half Woman-Qurter Bird, now on display at The Smithsonian American Art Museum<\/p>\n

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February 8-9, 2014
By Sean Flynn Staff writer, The Newport Daily News<\/p>\n

The work of Newport artist Howard Newman will be featured in the Smithsonian American Art Museum\u2019s upcoming exhibition, \u201cModern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection<\/a>,\u201d which will run from Feb. 28-Aug. 17.<\/p>\n

During the 1970s and \u201980s, Newman had solo exhibits at New York\u2019s Cordier and Ekstrom Gallery, and Roby was one of the buyers of his work. After she died, the Smithsonian in 1986 acquired her art collection, which included three of Newman\u2019s sculptures and a painting. \u201cThis is the first time they have made a formal exposition of selected pieces from the Roby bequest,\u201d Newman said. The pieces have been on exhibit before. but not as a dedicated exhibit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newman\u2019s piece, \u201cHalf Woman, Quarter Bird<\/a>,\u201d a 30-inch bronze sculpture he completed in 1974, will be featured in the exhibit.<\/p>\n

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His artwork comes from a tradition dating back to the early 20th century, plied by artists such as Austrian painter Egon Schiele and Spanish painter Joan Miro, with a touch of surrealism and drawing from the subconscious. \u201cMy sculptures come out of dreams and they evolve,\u201d Newman said.<\/p>\n

During his long career, his work has been acclaimed by art critics. Hilton Kramer, a critic with The New York Times, wrote in the 1970s: \u201cHoward Newman brings an impressive mastery to the genre of the abstract surrealist object \u2026 an imagery at once macabre and exalted\u2026the sheer rhythmic play of the curved surfaces give the work an extraordinary visual power.\u201d<\/p>\n

His work also is well known to Newport residents. His bronze sculptures \u201cTorso #1\u201d and \u201cFemale Torso (Birth Series)\u201d are installed on the grounds of the Newport Art Museum.<\/p>\n

His studio and business, Newmans Ltd., is located on Farewell Street, where he continues to create paintings and sculpture, perform historic restoration of bronze and metal objects and develop patents of his inventions.<\/p>\n

Newman\u2019s work is in many locations around Aquidneck Island. For example, he and his wife, Mary, restored the entire collection of metal objects in Touro Synagogue when the synagogue was restored in 2005-06.<\/p>\n

Newman collected pictures of the historic horse trough that was on Washington Square, which was fed by a fountain and topped by a lantern, from the archives of the Newport Historical Society. Using digital technology, he analyzed the photographs and made the drawings necessary to recreate that details of the trough, which he cast in bronze and re-installed on Washington Square in 2008-09.<\/p>\n

Newman also was hired in 2008-09 to restore \u201cTrinity,\u201d an abstract sculpture that shimmers above the altar at the Church of St. Gregory the Great at Portsmouth Abbey. Richard Lippold used about 4 miles of gold-plated wires in 1961 when he created an abstract sculpture that includes an array of wires that soars over visitors in the nave of the church.<\/p>\n

After almost five decades, the wires were so corroded and cracked that the integrity of the artwork was threatened. The Newmans were hired to save it. They were faced with the challenge of replacing all that wire without altering the character of the original artwork. They had to dismantle, in sections, what might seem like a giant spider web that spans 12,000 cubic feet and put it back up in its original position. \u201cIt was like making art, only backwards,\u201d Howard Newman said at the time.<\/p>\n

Among their many other projects outside the area, the Newmans restored the entire 10,000-pound, 19th century shelving system of The Pequot Library stacks in Southport, Conn., more than a decade ago. They did that work in the building that is now the Jamestown Arts Center.<\/p>\n

Born in Elizabeth, N.J ., Howard Newman studied architecture at Miami University in Ohio in 1961-63 and remembers designing a self-sustaining moon station five years after the Russians sent Sputnik into orbit, beginning the space race.
\u201cI woke up one night and thought, \u2018I don\u2019t want to do this, I want a liberal art education.\u2019 I think you should get a broad education and then a detailed education on how to do one thing well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He received a degree in anthropology from Miami University, which is where he met his future wife, Mary. The couple went through training to become Peace Corps volunteers and then worked as VISTA volunteers in New York City. Newman recalls doing legal aide work, but decided he was happiest working with his hands.
He entered the Rhode Island School of Design, where he met Tom Benson of Newport and through him became acquainted with the city. The Newmans bought their Newport home in the mid-1970s.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was trained as a silversmith at RISD,\u201d he said. \u201cI wanted to work in a bigger world, so I work in bronze.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newman received a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Italy in 1971-72, and he and Mary lived in a 16th century farmhouse in Impruneta outside Florence, where he could develop his sculpturing skills. They returned to Italy for another year in 1985- 86 and lived in Pietrasanta, north of Pisa.\u00a0\u201cThe town is to sculpture what Newport is to sailing,\u201d Newman said. \u201cThere are nine art foundries and 50 marble sheds there. Sculptors from all over the world go there.\u201d<\/p>\n

He worked in a foundry there, creating the two pieces at the Newport Art Museum and six other sculptures. After returning to the U.S., the sculptures and a series of his paintings were shown in an exhibit at the Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer gallery in New York.<\/p>\n

Newman remains busy. He is currently creating a bronze fountain for Decatur Square in Providence, through the West Broadway Neighborhood Association there. The Rhode Island Archive Project through Holly Gaboriault is collecting film of his art creations and projects and interviewing him for storage video archives. The crew began the project by selecting 14 artists in the state.<\/p>\n

His creativity takes him in all kinds of directions. He and attorney Len Katzman of Portsmouth are partners in a business called Sigma Surfacing LLC, an intellectual properties venture. They have patented Newman\u2019s hinge system invention for thick yoga mats that allow the mats to be folded easily and stored. They are working on patenting two other Newman inventions, a new way of resurfacing metals as well as an innovative way to put roofs and sidings on houses.<\/p>\n

How does he find time to do all this? \u201cI don\u2019t commute,\u201d he answered with a smile in his Newport studio. \u201cI spend all my time here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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