Convergence
Artist: Brian Corr (American, born 1976)
Date: 2012
Dimensions:
H: 35/14 in. (89.5 cm); W: 35 13/16 in. (91 cm); Depth: 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)
Medium: Kiln formed, water-jet cut, constructed and cold-worked translucent white glass
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from Helen Brooks in memory of Mayme and Rudolph Luedtke
Object number: 2014.16
Label Text:A Colorado native currently working in Australia, Brian Corr uses the manipulation of light and shadow on a large scale to invoke a sense of profound wonder at the world and our existence within it.
Here, he has bent two sheets of translucent white kiln-formed glass into a curved shape, allowing light to enter the top of the sculpture and illuminate the two semi-circular forms that are ground into the interior surface of each panel. When viewed from the front, these converge as two bisecting circles seemingly aglow with inner radiance. Corr likens this process of kiln-forming, cutting, grinding, and constructing to “glass carpentry.”
Through its simple elegance, Convergence conveys transcendence.
Here, he has bent two sheets of translucent white kiln-formed glass into a curved shape, allowing light to enter the top of the sculpture and illuminate the two semi-circular forms that are ground into the interior surface of each panel. When viewed from the front, these converge as two bisecting circles seemingly aglow with inner radiance. Corr likens this process of kiln-forming, cutting, grinding, and constructing to “glass carpentry.”
Through its simple elegance, Convergence conveys transcendence.
DescriptionTwo square sheets of translucent kiln-formed glass are bent on their vertical axis into a curved shape and adhered at their vertical edges to form a narrow standing sculpture with lenticular cross-section. Off-set semi-circular areas of denser opacity, due to surface grinding each panel, form two bisecting circles when viewed frontally.
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