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Twilight Powered by Electricity Makes for a Brilliant New Horizon

Artist Andrew Erdos (American, b. 1985)

Date2012

DimensionsOverall: H: 27 in. (68.6 cm); W: 32 in. (81.3 cm); Depth: 22 in. (55.9 cm).

MediumBlown and mirrored glass, a box constructed of two-way mirrors, and computer programmed, colored LEDs.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of The Georgia Welles Apollo Society

Object number

2012.10A-E

Not on View

DescriptionBlown and mirrored glass, encased in a box constructed of two-way mirrors, with computer programmed colored LEDs. The sculpture consists of a fantastic four-legged blown glass and mirrored fantastic creature with a trunk-like snout and a back resembling the shell of a hermit crab. It is accompanied by a smaller orb-like creature with stylized features and no legs. The two creatures are encased in a box constructed of two-way mirrors, its base lit up by computer-programmed colored LEDs. The whole is mounted on a painted plywood gallery pedestal. The sculpture consists of a fantastic four-legged blown glass and mirrored fantastic creature with a trunk-like snout and a back resembling the shell of a hermit crab. It is accompanied by a smaller orb-like creature with stylized features and no legs. The two creatures are encased in a box constructed of two-way mirrors, its base lit up by computer-programmed colored LEDs. The whole is mounted on a painted plywood gallery pedestal.

Published ReferencesPage, Jutta-Annette, Peter Morrin, and Robert Bell, Color Ignited: Glass 1962-2012, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2012, p. 80, repr. (col.) p. 78-79, 188, pl. 44.

"Jurors' Choice", New Glass Review, 34, 2013, p. 72, repr. (col.) p. 92.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Color Ignited: Glass 1962 – 2012, June 14 – September 9, 2012.