NEW YORK, NY.- Miguel Otero Fuentes, Michael V. Poast, Dianne Smith and Motohiro Takeda are featured artists with the West Harlem Art Fund on Governors Island. Located in Building 10B in the historic district of Nolan Park, sculpture is the primary medium for both the house exhibit and outdoor public art.

House Exhibition

Deep Altars, an evocative meditation on ritual, is a solo show by OTERO FUENTES, curated by Alitza Cardona, that opened on Governors Island, June 20, 2026. This body of sculpture ponders how cultural beliefs serve as a counter for hope in the face of today’s transactional behaviors.

The exhibition operates as a constellation of spatial prayers. In each work, you'll see the intention behind structure, curvature, and tension. The visible structure becomes a point of orientation to invisible forces: hope, gravity, alignment, intention, and presence.

With Deep Altars, the viewer's position is inverted, drawing him or her into the offering itself. In this context, the depths of meaning held in the gesture of encounter with the other become the very site where the divine is encountered.

Working primarily with steel and concrete, OTERO FUENTES examines how arcs, angles, and spatial rhythms shape the human experience and the forms that orchestrate circumstances. Trained as an architect, he approaches sculpture as a relational field where each work functions as both object and threshold, inviting viewers to move, recalibrate, and reconsider their position and meaning in space.





Outdoor Sculptures

• Bound (In the Garden) - Weather-resistant metal framework (steel, aluminum) with natural and synthetic fiber elements (e.g., rope, jute, or nylon). Dimensions: Height: 9 feet, Width: 7 feet, Depth: 7 feet Weight: Approx. 200 lbs.

• Bronco - Wood and Steel Dimensions: 6’5” x 5’2” x 5’7” Weight: 450 lbs

• Harlem Gate - Fallen Tree Dimensions: 60 (L)x11(W) x 23 (H) Weight: 300 lbs

• Harlequin - Steel. Dimensions: 9 ft. 2 in. high x 3 ft. wide x 3 ft. 4 in. deep Weight: 500 lbs.

• Lumen de lumine - Steel and wood,13’ x 4’ x 2’

• Wisdom - Weather steel Dimensions: 6 ft. 10 in. high x 5 ft. wide x 4 ft. deep Weight: 650 lbs.