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| Robert Perless |
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1938
New York City
I grew up across the street from the water, and the wind and the sea play an important role in my life and my art. We lived on our sailboat for two years in the seventies, traveling from the Canadian Maritimes to the Caribbean, after which I began working with wind-interactive sculpture. I am passionate about fly-fishing, and I train my Doberman Pinscher in the sport of agility.
The maquette that I am holding in this picture is called Ghost Towers and is a 9/11 memorial designed to be built in titanium 45 feet high and sited in the waters of Long Island Sound off Greenwich, Connecticut, where the towers were visible against the New York skyline. The project is in memory of the residents of the town who were lost on that tragic day. It was included in my show in Greenwich.
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| 关于此艺术家 |
Throughout my career, the motivating factor of my sculpture has been to make the viewer aware of the potential energy that surrounds them.
Being aware of this unseen energy brings the viewer closer to the mysteries of the natural world.
This awakening empowers us to live in closer harmony with nature.
I am a passionate advocate of respect for the planet and its natural systems that enable us to exist.
I employ two vocabularies to articulate these energy fields: light, and its transformations, and motion.
I manipulate light by breaking it down into the spectrum and projecting it throughout the environment. When light strikes the prisms which form the structural members of my work, they refract brilliant moving rainbows. I also employ a holographic material which is aluminum that has been photoengraved with 125,000 lines per inch. This treatment enables it to take white light and break it down it into the spectrum.
Many of my outdoor works function as monolithic wind vanes, constantly hunting upwind, like a sailboat riding at anchor. Despite their massive size, these works are so aerodynamically sensitive that they respond to the slightest breeze.
In my atrium works, prisms are joined by hanging airfoils, which derive their movement from the air currents created by the building's internal environment.
Works such as Sun Dagger function as celestial observatories and amplifiy the union and synergy of man and nature. Sun Dagger works as a noon transit sundial, and as a seasonal calendar, celebrating the winter and summer solstices and the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. The prisms on the end of the gnomon project rainbows from the prism array onto the sunline, crossing it, making the sculpture a seasonal calendar as well as a way to tell time.
This work is pure Constructivism, using sophisticated industrial materials and techniques, like architectural stainless steel and silicon bronze and polymer prisms. It is highly complex to construct, and it is only an illusion that it is �untouched by human hands.�
While it refers also to the Minimalists in terms of its design, unlike the Minimalists, I do not distance myself from the work by having it fabricated, but create it in my own studio, usually working with only one assistant.
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Sun Dagger
2004 Silicon bronze, polymer prisms 685 L, 419 H, 1092 by 1554 wide |
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Utah Public Arts Program, Utah Arts Council,
Utah Valley State College Wasatch Campus, Heber City, Utah.
Celestial observatory which works as a noon transit sundial, and as a seasonal
calendar, celebrating the winter and summer solstices and the vernal and
autumnal equinoxes with rainbows crossing the sunline.
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Sun Dagger (Detail)
2004 Silicon bronze, polymer prisms 685 L, 419 H, 1092 by 1554 wide |
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Utah Public Arts Program, Utah Arts Council,
Utah Valley State College Wasatch Campus, Heber City, Utah.
Detail of noon transit on the autumnal equinox. |
Orion's Belt
2002 Stainless steel, wind interactive 3 sculptures 1675 L, 823 H, 426 W, plus 14 pavers 40.64 round |
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Arts Council, City of Corpus Christi, Texas.
Orion's Belt is the gateway sculpture for the city of Corpus Christi, Texas. It is based on the geometry of the constellation Orion, which is frequently used in celestial navigation, and celebrates the city�s identity as a seafaring and aviation community.
The three stars that comprise Orion�s Belt are represented by three stainless steel wind vanes placed on the entryway between the city of Corpus Christi and Corpus Christi Bay.
Stainless steel discs with the glyph of Orion set into the pavement throughout the city identify the secondary stars in the constellation.
The constellation and the sculpture cover the entire city. |
Solar Wind
2000 Stainless steel and polymer prisms, wind and light interactive 1981 L, 853 H, 457 W |
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Utah Public Arts Program, Utah Arts Council
Salt Lake Community College.
Sited at the entrance to the High Tech Campus of the College.
My goal for this sculpture was to create an icon that leads the viewer to visualize their relationship with nature by forming a link between technology and the natural world. Utilizing the energies of the natural world as a power source, Solar Wind calls the viewer�s attention to the mysteries that surround us, but go unseen.
Sited on the north end of the Pathway of Knowledge that bisects the campus, Solar Wind has become the visual terminus of the journey through the campus. This journey brings the traveller to a higher plane of awareness when they experience the invisible that surrounds them in their daily lives, made real by Solar Wind in front of the new Technology building.
Solar Wind interacts with both light and wind energies. It interacts with ambient wind energy by facing upwind to seek the wind at its source, indicating its direction. The prisms which form its wind catching surfaces gather white light and transform it into rainbows, projecting them throughout the site. The materials of both the vane and the prisms gather light at night and are visible from all over the site.
The rainbow is a positive and nurturant symbol when encountered in nature. It is always regarded as a good omen. This sculpture celebrates the mating of light and wind, the synthesis of technology and nature, the dialogue between the academic community and the real world.
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Fields within Fields
1997 Mirror-polished stainless steel and polymer prisms 1005 L, 366 H, 366 W |
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Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield , Connecticut.
Fields Within Fields was built for a show in 1997 at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut. It is one of a series of Bridges and Passages based on the vocabulary of architectural minimalism. The world inside the Passage is transformed by the bands of rainbow light refracted by the prisms that form the piece�s structure.
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Luminae
1996 Welded aluminum coated with diffraction grating 609 H, 1219 W |
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Commissioned by Bristol Myers Squibb, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
The surface is clad with a holographic material that is aluminum that has been photoengraved with 125,000 lines per inch. This treatment enables it to take white light and break it down it into the spectrum. In scientific terms, it forms a diffraction grating.
Light is the catalyst that unlocks the potential of this artwork. It reacts to the movement of the sun as well as to a viewer walking through the space, causing the planes of the sculpture to shift their color. This gives it the ability to reflect and project rainbows from its surface.
In all cultures, the rainbow is a symbol of well-being, benevolence and good luck.
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Mobius Solaris
1995 Mirror-polished stainless steel and polymer prisms, heliostat sun tracking mechanism 853 H, 518 W |
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Commissioned by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.
Castleman Engineering Building, University of Connecticut, Storrs.
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Stargon
1987 Welded and polished stainless steel, wind interactive 2438 L, 1524 H |
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Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
This sculpture weighs ten tons, yet it will move in the lightest breeze. It continually faces upwind, like a sailboat at anchor. Originally sited in front of Bard's Curatorial Studies Center, it was recently relocated near the Performing Arts Center designed by Frank Gehry. |
Dream Weaver
2008 Welded aluminum, holographic material Exterior and Atrium each: 2286 cm L, 914 cm W, 609 cm H |
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Dream Weaver takes white light and breaks it down it into the spectrum; light is the catalyst that unlocks its potential. The movement of the sun or of a viewer walking through the space causes a color shift in its planes.
The sculpture is my interpretation of string theory, calling our attention to unseen dimensions. Stretching to the common outside wall of the building and appearing to penetrate it, it is a dance of light and space that is synergistic with the visual movement of the canopy through the walls of the building.
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Dream Weaver
2008 Welded aluminum, holohraphic material Exterior and Atrium each: 2286 cm L, 914 cm W, 609 cm H |
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Dream Weaver takes white light and breaks it down it into the spectrum; light is the catalyst that unlocks its potential. The movement of the sun or of a viewer walking through the space causes a color shift in its planes.
The sculpture is my interpretation of string theory, calling our attention to unseen dimensions. Stretching to the common outside wall of the building and appearing to penetrate it, it is a dance of light and space that is synergistic with the visual movement of the canopy through the walls of the building.
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
EDUCATION: Cheshire Academy, Cheshire, CT
University of Miami, Miami, Florida
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2008 “In-Site”Governor’s Island, NY
2006 “Robert Perless: Public Visions”One-Man Show, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2006 Sculpture in the Park, White Plains, NY
2004 Art Omi International Arts Center, Omi, New York
2003 Sculpture Now, Stockbridge , MS.
2000-2001 Space 2001, Bruce Museum , Greenwich, CT
2000 12X12X12, Greenwich Art Society
1997, 1987 Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1995 Environmental Sculptures, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
1991 -1996 Andre Emmerich's Top Gallant Farm Sculpture Garden, Quaker Hill, NY
1994 30 Years - Art in the Present Tense Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1991, 1992 Paris-New York-Kent Gallery, Kent, CT
1989 Connecticut Biennial Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
1988 Stamford Museum of Art, Stamford, CT
1980 Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
1978 Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1976 Bonino Gallery, New York, NY
1975 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1972 Bernard Danenberg Gallery, New York, NY
1970 Light, Motion, & Sound, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1970 Eclectra '70, Pepsico, New York, NY
1970 Whitney Museum, New York, NY
1969 Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
1968 Bodley Gallery, New York, NY
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Stamford Museum, Stamford, Connecticut
William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Bucknell University, Weis Center for the Performing Arts, Lewisburgh, Pennsylvania
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
City of Palm Desert, Civic Center, Palm Desert, California
City of Stamford, K.T. Murphy Media Center, Stamford, Connecticut
City of Syracuse, Syracuse Hancock International Airport, Syracuse, New York
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, N.Y.U. Medical Center
Town of Port Chester, Public Park, Port Chester, New York
University of Connecticut, Castleman Engineering Building, Storrs, Connecticut
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa
Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City Community College, Salt Lake City, Utah
Utah Arts Council, Utah Valley State College, Wasatch Campus, Heber City, Utah
CORPORATE COMMISSIONS
Avon Corporation, New York, New York
Boone County National Bank, Columbia, Missouri
Bristol-Myers Squibb, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
Coates Building, 555 Madison Avenue, New York
Dart Industries, Los Angeles, California
Deloitte & Touche, Wilton, Connecticut
Eastern Airlines, Boston, Massachusetts
First Federal Savings & Loan, Fort Meyers, Florida
Fuji Film Building, Elmsford, New York
Guggenheim International
Lake Forest Mall, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Mobil Oil, Fairfax, Virginia
National Chemsearch, Irving, Texas
One Exchange Plaza, New York City
Ottawa Silica Company, Public Park, Ottawa, Illinois
Space Center Tysons, Tysons Corners, Virginia
Stamford Town Center, Stamford, Connecticut
Xerox International Center, Washington, D.C.
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