"Spreading Your Wings" 12" Motorized Polage 5/12


Item Number: 14-15

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $2,450

Online Close: Mar 7, 2009 1:00 PM PST

Bid History: 1 bid - Item Sold!


Description

This "Polage" or "polarized light collage", titled "Spreading Your Wings" is a kinetically changing original artwork created by internationally known artist Austine Wood Comarow.  The work depicts a Monarch butterfly alighting on three Black-eyed Susans and appearing to slowly flap her wings.  This piece was created by cutting hundreds of tiny pieces of clear, colorless cellulose and laminating them onto polarizing filters.  Like a prism, the colors come from refraction of white light, breaking it into its component colors.  A rotating filter behind the art, inside the light box, causes the colors to change continually.  A book about Austine written by former Las Vegas Art Museum curator Dr. James Mann is also included.

Special Instructions

A retrospective showing of Austine's lifetime work in this original art form will be held at Smithsonian Institution affiliate Lakeview museum of Arts & Sciences in Peoria, Illinois March 27 through June 7.


 


Item must be picked up in person, no exceptions!

Donated by

Austine Wood Comarow