Leelinau

Leelinau

Metaphor is artist Alison Saar’s poetic currency. Leelinau is based on the legend of a Native American girl attracted to a nearby enchanted wood that was inhabited by spirits and fairies. Saar’s Leelinau, which means “delight of life,” is a wooden female figure...
House of the Minotaur

House of the Minotaur

House of the Minotaur, 1980, by Tony Rosenthal takes its name from the ancient Greek myth of King Minos of Crete, who built a tortuous labyrinth where the Minotaur, a creature half man and half beast, was held. Here, a series of prismatic steel panels are arranged to...
Cubed Squared

Cubed Squared

Jerald Jacquard’s Cubed Squared appears as a simple construction, yet it is paradoxically complex. Using the added element of the fixed wheel, Jacquard creates a feeling of both implied movement and precarious balance. Comprised of hollow bright blue geometric forms...
Ball? Ball! Wall? Wall!

Ball? Ball! Wall? Wall!

Lipski’s sculptures are acts of reclaimation for objects contemporary culture usually overlooks or discards. He creates sculptures out of industrial salvage material, and speaks of his work as a task of fitting, joining and “reassembling the world.”...
Abstract Variation No. 5

Abstract Variation No. 5

The Abstract Variation (A/V) series of sculptures are made in Cor-ten steel and are often painted, mostly in primary colors such as blue, black, red, and yellow. They range in size from modest, shelter-like forms to monumental, barricade-like pieces, all with the...