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During the past 40 years he has primarily focused upon creating "wind sculptures" which are handmade kinetic art that responds to the changing currents of the wind. His compositions vary from single, 5 foot (1.5 m) tall pieces to "Wind Forests" consisting of groups of sculptures standing up to 35 foot (11 m) tall.
The festival was renamed in 2016 to the North Carolina Whirligig Festival, [16] and is usually held the first full weekend of November. [17] The Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park was created in Wilson to document, conserve, and display the large sculptures from Simpson's land in Lucama. [18] The park had its grand opening on November 2, 2017. [19]
Jim Pallas (born 1941) is an American sculptor known for his electro-kinetic sculptures. [1] [2] “Zany, surrealistic, and ingenious in their construction, Mr. Pallas' work ushers us into the gaudy baroque phrase of kinetic art, as emanations of Paul Klee's Twittering Machines come back to haunt us in the language of our bizarre technology.” [3] Pallas is one of the pioneers in electronic ...
U-Ram Choe (born 1970) is an artist based in Seoul, South Korea.. Integrating both mechanical and computerized movements within his sculptures ever since the late 1990s, Choe's works push the genre of moving kinetic art toward its newer-generation iterations, such as robotic art. [1]
Solo is a spring-driven kinetic sculpture designed in 2014. The motion of flight has been a recurring theme in his work first appearing in 1988 in a sculpture called Flight . Variation II Sun is a spring-driven kinetic sculpture designed in 2014.
In 1976, he was awarded a BFA degree by the Hartford Art School. [3] In the 1970s, he was interested in the art of movement, as practiced by theatrical groups such as Mummenschanz, Pilobolus, and the Celebration Mime Theatre. [1] [2] He developed a theatrical performance animated by humans manipulating large animated props, sculptures, and ...
Phil Price (born 1965) is a New Zealand artist best known for his large-scale kinetic sculptures. Price's work incorporates engineering and design in works inspired by the natural world. [2] Price received a BFA degree in sculpture from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts. [3]
George Rhoads (January 27, 1926 – July 9, 2021) was a contemporary American painter, sculptor and origami master. He was best known for his whimsical audiokinetic sculptures in airports, science museums, shopping malls, children's hospitals, and other public places throughout the world.