As a sculptor of constructive geometric forms, my work deals with patterns and relationships derived from classical ideals of balance and symmetry. Mathematical yet organic, these abstract forms invite the viewer to partake of the geometric aesthetic. I use a variety of media, including paper, wood, plastic, metal, and assemblages of common household objects.
Classical forms are pushed in new directions, so viewers can take pleasure in their Platonic beauty yet recognize how they are updated for our complex high-tech times. I share with many artists the idea that a pure form is a worthy object, and select for each piece the materials that best carry that form. In one series of pieces, familiar objects are arranged in engaging configurations, displaying an essential tension between mundane individual components and the strikingly original totality.
Because my works invite contemplation, slowly revealing their
content, some viewers see them as meditation objects. A
lively dancing energy moves within each piece and flows out to
the viewer. The integral wholeness of each self-contained
sculpture presents a crystalline purity, a conundrum of
complexity, and a stark simplicity.
Ceci n'est pas une lampe wood, stained 12 inches (model) |
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Eddy wood, stained 50 inches |
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Arizona wood, stained, 36 inches |
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SNO-Ball wood, brass 59 inches |
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Erubescence wood, stained 72 inches |
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Florality wood, stained 9 inches |
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The Sculpture Formerly Known as Swirly wood, stained 8 inches |
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Cagework wood, stained 7 inches |
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Champy wood, stained 4 foot |
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Clouds aluminum two orbs, each 60 inches |
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Anemone wood, stained 40 inches |
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Frabjic wood, stained blue 24 inches |
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D-Flat wood, stained 24 inches |
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Solar Flair stainless steel 5 foot diameter |
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Solar Flair - wood model wood, stained blue 30 inches |
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Solar Flair - wood model wood 5 inches |
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Knot Structured wood 14 inches |
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Ambagesque wood 60 inches |
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Alpha Centauri wood 7 inches |
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Alpha Centauri wood 60 inches |
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Dodecahedron wood 50 inches |
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Dodecahedron wood 11 inches |
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Oxalis wood 30 inches |
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Volcanoes wood 33 inches |
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Sword Dancing wood two orbs, each 2 meters |
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Blorb 3D printed 5 inches |
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Sydney wood two orbs, each 1 meter |
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STEAM wood 30 inches |
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Seals wood 28 inches |
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Thorny Dragonflies 3D printed 6 inches |
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Thorny Frabjous wood 7 inches |
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Elephants wood two orbs, each 45 inches |
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Dragons wood 30 inches |
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One More Thing to Climb wood 30 inches |
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Whimsy wood 30 inches |
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Whimsy wood 10 inches |
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Celebration of Mind wood 30 inches |
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Geometry Ascending a Staircase aluminum four orbs, 4, 5, 6, and 7 feet |
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Aalto wood two orbs, each 2 meters |
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Pentagrams mirror-acrylic 7 inches |
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SuperFrabjous wood 12 inches |
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Centerpieces Series 3D printed 8 inch diameter |
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Gyrangle painted steel 42 inches |
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Wormhole stainless steel 27 inches |
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Skinks acrylic 9 inches |
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Ball and Chain nylon, SLS 6 inches |
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Amazing Acrobats plastic 3 feet |
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Creatures nylon, SLS 3.5 inches |
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Four Sierpinskis Nylon, SLS 3 inches |
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Dragonflies wood 7.5 inches |
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Egg Heads walnut 12 inches |
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Comet! aluminum 100 feet |
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Snarl nylon, SLS, dyed 2 inches |
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Snarl wood 12 inches |
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Bathysphere aluminum 12 inches |
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John Deere paper 11 inches |
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Compass Points aluminum 52 inches |
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Sand Dollars nylon, SLS 6 inches |
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Echinodermania I nylon, SLS, dyed 3 inches |
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Echinodermania II nylon, SLS, dyed 4 inches |
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Echinodermania III nylon, SLS,dyed 4 inches |
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Eights paper 6 inches |
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Mutual Support steel, powder coated 7 inches |
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Mermaid's Delight nylon, SLS, dyed 4 inches |
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Paradise stainless steel 9 inches |
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Monsters paper 6 inches |
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Snakes stainless steel 7 inches |
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Bramble nylon, SLS, dyed 4 inches |
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Asterisks stainless steel 8 inches |
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Tumbleweed steel 7 inches |
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Cagework 1 acrylic 7 inches |
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Spaghetti Code aluminum 2 meters |
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Spaghetti Code wood 1 meter |
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Aardvarks wood 12 inches |
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Star Corona acrylic 8 inches |
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Gem wood 12 inches |
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Salamanders acrylic 7 inches |
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Nessie wood 7 inches |
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Salamanders wood 30 inches |
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The Triangles Which Aren't
There acrylic plastic 12 inches |
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Compass Points wood 14 inches |
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Compass Points (larger version) wood 46 inches |
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Knot Structured wood 7 inches |
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Frabjous wood 11 inches |
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This
End Up acrylic plastic 9 inch |
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Deep
Sea
Tango acrylic plastic 13 cm |
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Quintessence
of Hedgehog acrylic plastic 13 cm |
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Bouquet acrylic plastic 9 inch |
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Tangled Reindeer nylon, SLS 3 inch |
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Twisted Rivers,
Knotted Sea
steel |
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Deep Structure
3D printing |
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Just Two
Cavities
180 toothbrushes |
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Five-Legged-Bee Hive
3D printing |
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Millennium Bookballwood and bronze, 5 foot diameterCommission for Northport Public Library Northport, NY. Community Assembly Event |
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Gonads of the Rich and
Famous
3D printing |
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Rainbow Bits642 CDROMs77 inch diameter U.C. Berkeley, Dept. Computer Science Rainbow Bits Construction |
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Loopypainted aluminum8 foot |
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Septvaginta
Duarus Planus Vacuus
cherry |
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The Susurrus of the Seatransparent blue acrylic plastic16" |
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Leonardo Project
cherry reconstructions of Leonardo da Vinci's models |
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Propello-octahedron150 CDs26" Princeton University Dept. Mathematics |
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Roads Untakenexotic hardwoods (yellowheart, paela, and padauk) with walnut "grout,"17 inch diameter |
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Labia360 CDs33 inch diameter |
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Whovillealuminum35 inches |
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Chronosynclastic Infundibulum150 CDs34 inches Long Island Museum of Science and Technology |
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Fat and Skinnywalnut, maple, and brass23 inches |
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Stretto204 CDs26 inches |
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Rorschachohedronwood covered in synthetic fur, base of epoxy composite over steel, painted with pink enamel.16 inches |
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The Plastic Tableware of Damocles180 plastic knives26 inches |
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Music of the
Sphere
steel |
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Chiral Quartetinstallation at 2000 A.D. at the Vanderbilt museum, Centerport, NY, November 1997 - January 1998 |
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Gazmogenesiscopper12 inches |
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72 pencils72 pencils8 inches |
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The Color-Matched Dissection of the Rhombic Enneacontahedronacrylic plastic shell, acid-free card stock20 inches |
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Disk Combobulation3.5 inch floppy diskettes12 inches at Goudreau Museum, New Hyde Park, NY |
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Yin and Yangwalnut and basswood7" diameter |
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No Picnicspoons, knives, forksvariable dimensions, up to 16 feet in length destroyed at Hofstra University, student center |
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Battered Moonlightpaper mache over steel21 inches |
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I'd like to make one thing perfectly clearacrylic plastic18" |
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Fire and Iceoak and brass18" |
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Thirty Pieces of Copper copper 7 inches |
For background on the historical relationships between polyhedra and art, see the Polyhedra and Art section of my online Encyclopedia of Polyhedra. I also make paper polyhedron models which are more at the mathematics end of the scale than the art end. Somewhere in between, I put my "geometric constructions," which blend math and art more evenly. Finally, you might also like to look at some of my 2D computer-generated images, which are concepts for sculptures too difficult to realize physically, or some of my early plotter drawings.
If you like this stuff, here are some links to some other geometric sculptors you may like: Brent Collins, Helaman Ferguson, Robinson Fredenthal, Bathsheba Grossman, Jean-Pierre Hébert, Chris Palmer, Charles O. Perry, John Robinson, Carlo Sequin, Arthur Silverman, Ken Snelson, Simon Thomas, Keizo Ushio, Koos Verhoeff. For more, see the Bridges Conferences and the International Society for Art, Math, and Architecture.