sculpture

Chihuly III

After the breathtaking indoor display of glass, one enters the greenhouse in the shadow of Seattle’s Space Needle. Click any image to see them all enlarged.

Dale Chihuly

Born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, Dale Chihuly was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington. After graduating in 1965, Chihuly enrolled in the first glass program in the country, at the University of Wisconsin. He continued his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he later established the glass program and taught for more than a decade… more

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Carnac Soldier

Public Art in Las Vegas

Photo Mask

Moore Poole

Metal!

Crossing the street from the Neto installation I came to another Paula Cooper Gallery, this one featuring the sculpture of Mark di Suvero.

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Gamine

Oddly, I could find no indication on any of the Whitney’s outdoor rooftop art as to whose work it was or what the titles of the pieces were. Nor did a review of their web site turn up anything useful. So I have named this one myself. Apologies to the sculptor.

Urban Postcard: St John the Divine

Swords Beaten into Plowshares?

Newspaper Reader

Sculpture by J. Seward Johnson, Jr., 1975. Headline: Nixon Resigns.

Mailbox of Ozma

Floating in Space

South Fayerweather Hall, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire

Magical sculpture appears to be suspended in space!

Clement Meadmore, Perdido, 1978

Beacon Reflected

Min Street, Beacon, New York — Main Street, Beacon, New York

Reflected, by Jennifer Smith

Reminds me a bit of Natural Encounters by Magritte:

Que Sera, Serra or Margaret Becomes Something Different

What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.” – Richard Serra

A Shimmering Collapse of Decreated Sharpness

I like landscapes that suggest prehistory,” said Smithson. The countless fragments of shattered glass that form Map of Broken Glass (Atlantis) (1969) are layered both literally and figuratively. As the title implies, the sculpture is to be seen  not simply as a pile of sharp, transparent fragments but also as a map of a legendary lost continent. “It is a shimmering collapse of decreated sharpness . . . arrested by the friction of stability.” Similar to other fictive territories, Map of Broken Glass foreshadows Smithson’s most ambitious realization: a spiral-shaped artificial peninsula made out of mud, salt crystals, and basalt rocks named Spiral Jetty, which he built in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, in 1970. Read more…

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