Geometric Sculpture

As a sculptor of constructive geometric forms, my work deals with patterns and relationships derived from classical ideals of balance and symmetry.  Mathematical yet organic, these abstract forms invite the viewer to partake of the geometric aesthetic.  I use a variety of media, including paper, wood, plastic, metal, and assemblages of common household objects.

Classical forms are pushed in new directions, so viewers can take pleasure in their Platonic beauty yet recognize how they are updated for our complex high-tech times.  I share with many artists the idea that a pure form is a worthy object, and select for each piece the materials that best carry that form. In one series of pieces, familiar objects are arranged in engaging configurations, displaying an essential tension between mundane individual components and the strikingly original totality.

Because my works invite contemplation, slowly revealing their content, some viewers see them as meditation objects.  A lively dancing energy moves within each piece and flows out to the viewer.  The integral wholeness of each self-contained sculpture presents a crystalline purity, a conundrum of complexity, and a stark simplicity.
 
 

	Ceci n'est pas une lampe wood, stained 12 inches (model)
	Eddy wood, stained 50 inches
	Arizona wood, stained, 36 inches
	SNO-Ball wood, brass 59 inches
	Erubescence wood, stained 72 inches
	Florality wood, stained 9 inches
	The Sculpture Formerly Known as Swirly wood, stained 8 inches
	Cagework wood, stained 7 inches
	Champy wood, stained 4 foot
	Clouds aluminum two orbs, each 60 inches
	Anemone wood, stained 40 inches
	Frabjic wood, stained blue 24 inches
	D-Flat wood, stained 24 inches
	Solar Flair stainless steel 5 foot diameter
	Solar Flair - wood model wood, stained blue 30 inches
	Solar Flair - wood model wood 5 inches
	Knot Structured wood 14 inches
	Ambagesque   wood 60 inches
	Alpha Centauri wood 7 inches
	Alpha Centauri wood 60 inches
	Dodecahedron wood 50 inches
	Dodecahedron wood 11 inches
	Oxalis wood 30 inches
	Volcanoes wood 33 inches
	Sword Dancing wood two orbs, each 2 meters
	Blorb   3D printed 5 inches
	Sydney wood two orbs, each 1 meter
	STEAM wood 30 inches
	Seals wood 28 inches
	Thorny Dragonflies 3D printed 6 inches
	Thorny Frabjous wood 7 inches
	Elephants wood two orbs, each 45 inches
	Dragons wood 30 inches
	One More Thing to Climb wood 30 inches
	Whimsy wood 30 inches
	Whimsy wood 10 inches
	Celebration of Mind wood 30 inches
	Geometry Ascending a Staircase aluminum four orbs, 4, 5, 6, and 7 feet
	Aalto wood two orbs, each 2 meters
	Pentagrams mirror-acrylic 7 inches
	SuperFrabjous wood 12 inches
	Centerpieces Series 3D printed 8 inch diameter
	Gyrangle painted steel 42 inches
	Wormhole stainless steel 27 inches
	Skinks acrylic 9 inches
	Ball and Chain nylon, SLS 6 inches
	Amazing Acrobats plastic 3 feet
	Creatures nylon, SLS 3.5 inches
	Four Sierpinskis Nylon, SLS 3 inches
	Dragonflies wood 7.5 inches
	Egg Heads walnut 12 inches
	Comet! aluminum 100 feet
	Snarl nylon, SLS, dyed 2 inches
	Snarl wood 12 inches
	Bathysphere aluminum 12 inches
	John Deere paper 11 inches
	Compass Points aluminum 52 inches
	Sand Dollars nylon, SLS 6 inches
	Echinodermania I nylon, SLS, dyed 3 inches
	Echinodermania II nylon, SLS, dyed 4 inches
	Echinodermania III nylon, SLS,dyed 4 inches
	Eights paper 6 inches
	Mutual Support steel, powder coated 7 inches
	Mermaid's Delight nylon, SLS, dyed 4 inches
	Paradise stainless steel 9 inches
	Monsters paper 6 inches
	Snakes stainless steel 7 inches
	Bramble nylon, SLS, dyed 4 inches
	Asterisks stainless steel 8 inches
	Tumbleweed steel 7 inches
	Cagework 1 acrylic 7 inches
	Spaghetti Code aluminum 2 meters
	Spaghetti Code wood 1 meter
	Aardvarks wood 12 inches
	Star Corona acrylic 8 inches
	Gem wood 12 inches
	Salamanders acrylic 7 inches
	Nessie wood 7 inches
	Salamanders wood 30 inches
	The Triangles Which Aren't There acrylic plastic 12 inches
	Compass Points wood 14 inches
	Compass Points (larger version) wood 46 inches
	Knot Structured wood 7 inches
	Frabjous wood 11 inches
	This End Up acrylic plastic 9 inch
	Deep Sea Tango acrylic plastic 13 cm
	Quintessence of Hedgehog acrylic plastic 13 cm
	Bouquet acrylic plastic 9 inch
	Tangled Reindeer nylon, SLS 3 inch
	Twisted Rivers, Knotted Sea steel 4 foot diameter
	Deep Structure 3D printing 4"
	Just Two Cavities 180 toothbrushes 20"
	Five-Legged-Bee Hive 3D printing 3"
	Millennium Bookball wood and bronze,  5 foot diameter Commission for Northport Public Library  Northport, NY. Community Assembly Event
	Gonads of the Rich and Famous 3D printing two balls, 3" each
	Rainbow Bits 642 CDROMs  77 inch diameter  U.C. Berkeley, Dept. Computer Science Rainbow Bits Construction
	Loopy painted aluminum  8 foot
	Septvaginta Duarus Planus Vacuus cherry 16"
	The Susurrus of the Sea transparent blue acrylic plastic  16"
	Leonardo Project cherry reconstructions of Leonardo da Vinci's models
	Propello-octahedron 150 CDs  26"  Princeton University Dept. Mathematics
	Roads Untaken exotic hardwoods (yellowheart, paela, and padauk) with walnut "grout,"  17 inch diameter
	Labia 360 CDs  33 inch diameter
	Whoville aluminum  35 inches
	Chronosynclastic Infundibulum 150 CDs  34 inches  Long Island Museum of Science and Technology
	Fat and Skinny walnut, maple, and brass  23 inches
	Stretto 204 CDs  26 inches
	Rorschachohedron wood covered in synthetic fur, base of  epoxy composite over steel, painted with pink enamel.  16 inches
	The Plastic Tableware of Damocles 180 plastic knives  26 inches
	Music of the Sphere steel  10 inches diameter, 36 tall
	Chiral Quartet installation at 2000 A.D. at the Vanderbilt museum, Centerport, NY, November 1997 - January 1998
	Gazmogenesis copper  12 inches
	72 pencils 72 pencils  8 inches
	The Color-Matched Dissection of the Rhombic Enneacontahedron acrylic plastic shell, acid-free card stock  20 inches
	Disk Combobulation 3.5 inch floppy diskettes  12 inches  at Goudreau Museum, New Hyde Park, NY
	Yin and Yang walnut and basswood  7" diameter
	No Picnic  spoons, knives, forks  variable dimensions, up to 16 feet in length  destroyed at Hofstra University, student center
	Battered Moonlight paper mache over steel  21 inches
	I'd like to make one thing perfectly clear acrylic plastic  18"
	Fire and Ice oak and brass  18"
	Thirty Pieces of Copper copper 7 inches

Public and Corporate Artworks

• University of London (2006)
  
• Massachusettes Institute of Technology (2003)
  
• Stony Brook University
  
• Northport Public Library (1999)
• Long Island Museum of Science and Technology (1999)
• U.C. Berkeley, Dept. Computer Science, Soda Hall (1999)
• Princeton University, Mathematics Dept. common room (1998)
• Goudreau Museum of Mathematics in Art and Science, New Hyde Park, NY  (1998)

More

For background on the historical relationships between polyhedra and art, see the Polyhedra and Art section of my online Encyclopedia of Polyhedra. I also make paper polyhedron models which are more at the mathematics end of the scale than the art end. Somewhere in between, I put my "geometric constructions," which blend math and art more evenly. Finally, you might also like to look at some of my 2D computer-generated images, which are concepts for sculptures too difficult to realize physically, or some of my early plotter drawings.

If you like this stuff, here are some links to some other geometric sculptors you may like: Brent Collins, Helaman Ferguson, Robinson Fredenthal, Bathsheba Grossman, Jean-Pierre Hébert, Chris Palmer, Charles O. Perry, John Robinson, Carlo Sequin, Arthur Silverman, Ken Snelson, Simon Thomas, Keizo Ushio, Koos Verhoeff.  For more, see the Bridges Conferences and the International Society for Art, Math, and Architecture.