Sentences with phrase «hanging mobile sculptures»

She is most known for her hanging mobile sculptures, which are reminiscent of Alexander Calder.

Not exact matches

The American artist Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) is best known for his mobiles — hanging sculptures fashioned from impeccably poised lengths of wire and thin metal plates, usually colored black and red.

This constellation of key sculptures brings together major examples of Calder's work dating from the 1930s and includes early motor - driven abstractions and sound - generating gongs as well as the standing and hanging mobiles for which he is best known.

The exhibit also includes a wall installation with multiple individual fragments, a very large 3 - panel abstract painting on canvas with fabric, paint, and collaged newspaper clippings about UFO sightings, a ceiling — hung mobile and a stabile (sculpture) on a pedestal made with wood, string and found metal.

A mobile is a type of kinetic (moving) sculpture made with rods and weighted objects that hang from the rods and balance each other.

The county also reconfigured the 28 - by -28-foot sculpture by adding weights to hoist up a portion of the mobile that it deemed as hanging too low and then attached a motor because, with the added weight, the mobile would no longer rotate on its own.

Miles has large - scale figurative works across the country - a national landmark in California [the Grape Crusher in Napa Valley] and several figurative works in the collection of Walt Disney [Seven Dwarfs at Walt Disney headquarters]; Miles» largest mobile sculpture is hanging in Noblesville, Indiana after it was commissioned by the owners of Performance Marketing Group.

Some of these major monumental sculpture commissions include:.125, a mobile for the New York Port Authority that was hung in Idlewild (now John F. Kennedy) Airport (1957); Spirale, for UNESCO, in Paris (1958); Teodelapio, for the city of Spoleto, Italy (1962); Trois disques (Man), for the Expo in Montreal (1967); El Sol Rojo, installed outside the Aztec Stadium for the Olympic Games in Mexico City; La Grande vitesse, the first public art work to be funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan (1969); and Flamingo, a stabile for the General Services Administration in Chicago (1973).

One extreme contrast we loved, however, is a delicate Calder mobile hanging above a monolithic Henry Moore sculpture.

In August 1970 Welling created a mobile sculpture, hung in a maple tree, which he documented in Super 8 film.

An Alexander Calder mobile hangs in front of the living wall sculpture terrace at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on April, 28, 2016 in San Francisco, Calif..

A collaboration with fashion designer Osman Yousefzada on a swivel - mobile made from mirror - polished stainless steel, which hung above the catwalk entrance for his A / W 2009 show, is currently on display at the Cass Sculpture Foundation in Goodwood, and he's involved in an ongoing project to transform the Pavilion café in London's Victoria Park.

Enter through the new Howard Street entrance; spiral through Richard Serra's torqued, 213 - ton Corten steel sculpture Sequence, across the swath of free public space given over to hanging out under the vast Alexander Calder mobile, and up the maplewood stairway to the second - floor atrium.

An Alexander Calder mobile hangs in front of the living wall sculpture terrace at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

[46] In the earlier sculpture show, this trick proved impossible for one piece, an Alexander Calder mobile whose wire inevitably hung at a true plumb vertical, «suggesting hallucination» in the disorienting context of the tilted floor.

A dramatically different take on a trad mobile is the light fantastic hanging Cloud hanging sculpture, from # 152, by Magis Collection Me Too at Made in Design.