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Artist |
Rainey, Clifford |
Title |
Maquette for Clear Torso |
Medium |
cast glass, steel, wood, stone, and paint |
Date |
2000 |
Description |
Clifford Rainey (Whitehead, County Antrim, Northern Ireland 1948; lives and works in Oakland, California) Maquette for Clear Torso, 2000 Cast glass, steel, wood, stone, and paint 24 x 8 x 8 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 2016 gift of June and Rob Heller Rainey is a California-based British sculptor best known for his expressive cast glass sculptures that reference ancient civilizations, the fragility of life, and the power of nature. Fragmented torsos appear frequently in his work, and reflect his love of classical sculpture, and his continuing interest in the body as a vulnerable shell containing an eternal soul. His inclusion of a river stone within the legs of the torso's support base has a dual purpose: to represent a counterweight used by artists to stabilize sculptures in the studio, and to represent the vastness of geologic time compared to the fleeting nature of human existence. |
Catalog Number |
2016.15.02 |
Search Terms |
Glass Metals Wood Paint Sculpture |
Credit line |
gift of June and Rob Heller |