Storm King Art Center, a 500-acre sculpture park about an hour north of Manhattan, boasts an expansive, open-air environment where massive pieces of art are dwarfed—and complimented by—the surrounding landscape.  

Some, like Jampalaya—a painted steel 60' x 40'x x35' piece by Mark di Suvero—are truly massive, and yet only seem overwhelming when you stand at its base and look up.  

While others, like this series of sculptures near the visitor center, would be at home in a city gallery. Storm King also hosts a series of special exhibits and indoor pieces.  

Yet even these 'conventional' sculptures, like the bronze Tall Bather by Emilio Greco, benefit from its pastoral setting.  

Works from well-known artists like Richard Serra and pieces like Alexander Calder's Gui…  

…can be found along side lesser-known artist works like Nam June Paik's Waiting for UFO.  

But some of the most striking remain those that integrate nature, like Andy Goldsworthy's Storm King Wall.  

This 2,278-foot-long site-specific sculpture was made from field stones gathered from the Art Center property. The wall weaves around a stretch of trees, seems to plunge into a small lake, and climbs up to the property’s border.  

Others, like Ursula von Rydingsvard's For Paul, use conventional sculptural materials that end up replicating landscapes typically found in nature.  

For this piece, she painstakingly constructed layers of cedar and then rubbed graphite into the wood, giving it the appearance of a basalt rock face. The massive sculpture stands 14.5 feet tall, reinforcing the sense that it belongs to the natural world.  

Storm King also houses several sculptures that invert expectations. This piece manipulates rubber into something appears almost organic.  

But the true lure of Storm King definitely resides in the invitation for hours-long ambles through its 500 acres, noticing how the shifting sun unveils new faces to the sculptures.