First Prize, Albert Jacobson Memorial Award
43rd Art of the Northeast USA Exhibition, 1992
Silvermine School of Art, New Canaan, CT
Curated by Eliza Rothbone, Philips Collection, Washington, DC

“Westchester sculptor born in Detroit, Robert Spinazzola, takes on the auto industry by way of a steel assemblage titled, ‘Detroit Ca Va.’ The skeleton of a horse (symbolizing horsepower), is frozen mid-gallop on a wheel that would operate a drill press if it moved, but it does not. Nor, in the sculptor’s view, does the auto industry. Maybe he should have called the piece, ‘Detroit C’est Fini.’ ”
—Vivian Raynor, The New York Times, May 31, 1992

“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 ne “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 for, which turns out to be part of an unpainted, upside-down Chevrolet. Its a brilliant metaphor for our times really—at once familiar and unusual, visually succinct and viscerally on the money.” - Georgette Gouvia, The Journal News, May 31, 2009

1991, steel with paint and oil, 60"h x 72"w x 96"d

“Another Spinazzola piece is a twofer, referencing the collapsed housing market as well as the auto industry. “La Ville Industriale fin de Siecle” depicts a Detroit assembly line that turns out houses instead of cars. In the sculpture, two mechanical arms form a bridge over the bird size houses, recalling a scene on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel in which God reaches out to infuse Adam with life.”—Georgette Gouveia, The Journal News, May 31, 2009

“Another Spinazzola piece is a twofer, referencing the collapsed housing market as well as the auto industry. “La Ville Industriale fin de Siecle” depicts a Detroit assembly line that turns out houses instead of cars. In the sculpture, two mechanical arms form a bridge over the bird size houses, recalling a scene on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel in which God reaches out to infuse Adam with life.”—Georgette Gouveia, The Journal News, May 31, 2009

La Ville Industriale fin de Siecle, 2007, steel with oil, 84"h x 85"w x 18"d

“Another Spinazzola piece is a twofer, referencing the collapsed housing market as well as the auto industry. “La Ville Industriale fin de Siecle” depicts a Detroit assembly line that turns out houses instead of cars. In the sculpture, two mechanical arms form a bridge over the bird size houses, recalling a scene on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel in which God reaches out to infuse Adam with life.”—Georgette Gouveia, The Journal News, May 31, 2009

La Ville Industriale fin de Siecle, 2007, steel with oil, 84"h x 85"w x 18"d