Orbit
Artist: Daniel Owen Dailey (American, born 1947)
Date: 1987
Dimensions:
H: 8 ft.; L: 16 ft.
Medium: Glass, sand-cast in iron form, sand-blasted, acid-polished; paint on theater cloth, stretched over board
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Tishman Speyer Properties
Object number: 2015.35
DescriptionThe mural consists of 105 square cast glass panels depicting an imaginary vision of outer space in relief. Icons of art history such as the Venus of Willendorf and a Picasso bull sculpture are floating through space together with an astronaut, space ships, shooting stars, and various planets. In the original installation, the glass sections were mounted into a steel grid, backed by a hand-painted proscenium on board, and back-lit with computerized colored lights that could be adjusted to preference of color, brightness, and sequence.
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