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Two Conical Segments: Gyratory Gyratory
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George RickeySculpture (EXTERIOR)
University of Central Florida
About the Artwork
A kinetic sculpture responsive to the slightest change in its surroundings. A slender stem branches out two separate fans that flutter as is ready to take-off.
About the Artist
George Rickey
During World War II, George Rickey worked with engineers to improve aircraft weaponry, an experience that rekindled his interest in science and technology. Beginning in the early 1950s, Rickey shifted his focus from painting to sculpture and began creating kinetic sculpture. In his own work, Rickey combined his love of engineering and mechanics, graceful yet solid cubic forms. Rickey was able to design sculptures whose metal parts moved in response to the slightest air currents. Each work gives physical form to the invisible force of the wind. These parts were often very large, sometimes weighing hundreds of pounds.
Did you know?
A stained glass window which won a fine arts prize at the 1876 Centinial Exhibition in Philadelphia was dismantled and stored under a bed in an Orange County home for years before being reassembled and placed in Reeves Memorial Methodist Church over 100 years after it was created.
Discover Art in Central Florida!
For those who have eyes to see, there are hundreds of works of art around them.
This web site provides some information on many of those works of art that can
be regularly viewed in Orange County by any member of the public without an
admission fee. They are outside in public view, or located in an interior area
that is normally open to the public.
Look around this web site and find something that interests you. Then go see it
in person. The information you find here will add to the pleasure of exploring
public art in Central Florida.
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is not listed here, please let us know so we can add it. If you are aware of
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