NEW YORK, NY.- The Sculpture Garden at 590 Madison Avenue is presenting Jonathan Prince: Torn Steel, the first public installation of the artist’s large scale steel sculptures in New York, on view at the atrium of 590 Madison Avenue from September 15 – November 18, 2011. Jonathan Prince follows a long line of distinguished artists—Murakami, Calder, Chamberlain, Oldenburg and Judd – to take advantage of the unique surround afforded by the 590 Madison Avenue Atrium in New York. Its vast scale is a perfect site for Prince’s large format works, a series that has been in development over two years at the artist’s studio in western Massachusetts. TORN STEEL exploits the interruption of pure geometric form. The skin of the steel sculpture is ruptured, allowing Prince to introduce a wholly different surface, imbuing the work with a dynamic quality of evolving, of genesis. His intelligent use of the steel is key to the visual success of these works: the rusted steel