Huru: About the Artist, Mark di Suvero

Mark di Suvero is an abstract expressionist sculptor with an active career spanning 60 years. His process is hands-on,  and he remains active in fabricating and installing his pieces, which are on display all over the world. He currently  maintains studios in Queens, New York, and Petaluma, California. 

Di Suvero built Huru at his Petaluma studio in the mid-80’s with his studio director and lifelong friend, Lowell McKegney. Because of  McKegney’s deep affection for the piece, di Suvero gifted it to him. It went coast to coast on exhibit from 1985 to  2014. Most recently it was in a retrospective of di Suvero’s work at Crissy Field, presented by SFMOMA in partnership with the National Park Service and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.  

After McKegney’s untimely death in 2011, his family inherited and stored Huru while they searched for a site suitable  to honor his life, passion, and commitment.  The McNear Peninsula fulfilled all of the family's criteria. Plans to build Petaluma River Park were set in motion, and the family's offer to loan Huru for long-term exhibition helped to establish the Park's art program, which will showcase artworks in a natural environment for public appreciation.