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Featured Work
Composition II
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Albert PaleySculpture (EXTERIOR)
University of Central Florida
About the Artwork
A large outdoor sculpture with two rectangular steel forms standing adjacent. Only one side, closest to the second form, is wavy adding a softness. The sculpture is uniform in and obsidian color. Smaller ornamentation like a protruding block, a cylinder, slender long stems, are featured in the artwork.
About the Artist
Albert Paley
Paley is the first metal sculptor to receive the coveted Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Architects, the AIA's highest award to a non-architect. In 1996 a monograph entitled The Art of Albert Paley: Iron, Bronze, Steel was published, and in 2001 a documentary chronicling Paley's construction of the 70 foot high, 40 ton sculpture for Bausch and Lomb's corporate headquarters in Rochester, NY was aired by PBS. The work of forged metal sculptor Albert Paley is celebrated around the globe. He has been heralded for his inventive approach to form development and metal technique, and has received numerous corporate and civic commissions. His monumental metal sculptures are featured in such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art.
Did you know?
Hughlette "Tex" Wheeler left Christmas, FL to became one of the most renowned equine sculptors in the early 20th Century with public sculptures of Sea Buisquit and of Will Roger's Horse. He died back in Christmas, FL.
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For those who have eyes to see, there are hundreds of works of art around them.
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admission fee. They are outside in public view, or located in an interior area
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