Albert Paley
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Albert Paley made his name initially as an art jeweler in New York. In 1969 he moved to Rochester, New York to teach at the Rochester Institute. With the recognition he earned from the Renwick Gallery, Portal Gates, for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, 1974, he switched to metal sculpture and decorative arts. Since 1974 Paley has completed over 50 major corporate and civic commissions. In 1995 he was awarded the AIA (American Institute of Architects) coveted Institute Honors Award for his integration of art and architecture.
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2008 - - Albert Paley is internationally recognized for large scale gateways and entrances including the Animal Always Plaza at the St. Louis Zoological Park, the Portal Gates of the Smithsonian Institution’s Renwick Gallery and the entrance gates of the Good Shepard Chapel of the National Cathedral. His sculptures are included in collections of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, the Smithsonian’s Museum of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Paley is the first metal sculptor to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Architects. The artist and his design team work out of large production facilities in Rochester, New York.