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artist: Larry Akers
series: Refractories
title: Blue Green Refractory
portfolio: http://www.eyeplaystudio.net
Larry Akers has been doing constructed sculpture in Austin since 2011. Raised in Pampa, Texas, he escaped to Austin by 1973 and over the next 21 years acquired a stack of mathematics and computer science degrees at UT. On the way to becoming an artist, he spent 40 years as an applied computing research scientist, acquiring an affinity for pattern that infuses almost all his artwork. He is a prominent parks advocate in Austin. He loves his wife of 29 years and his son of almost that age, most of the people he knows, dogs, music, water, and fruit.
The refractories are constructed sculptures utilizing refractive material and collage. Inspired by the works of Carlos Cruz-Diez, the refractories shuffle colors from various palettes into each other and are subtly interactive in physical presence, shifting geometrically with the viewer's movements.
Blue Green Refractory -- a refractory from a blue and green dominated palette
Blue Green Refractory is a fully analog, layered piece constructed from a paper collage back panel and a front curtain consisting of a tight array of acrylic rods, all mounted in a wood-framed box with translucent colored acrylic sides and top to admit light. The back panel is in a tessellation pattern tiled with acute quadrilaterals and refracted by the rods to create a jagged blending of the contrasting colors.
This work was exhibited in the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art's This Show is Curated by a Machine 🤖, which took place from September 23, 2021 through January 31, 2022. The show is curated by an artificial intelligence which learned to curate by looking at artworks from the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the 2021 Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art Biennial, and other sources. The show has been added to mowna's collection, which is available for viewing online at https://www.mowna.org.
The winner of this auction will receive a 1/1 limited edition NFT, minted by the museum. 70% of the sale will pay the artist of the NFT for their work, with the remaining 30% paying for the creation of the museum platform. The winner will also unlock a free one month membership code for the museum.
"This Show is Curated by a Machine 🤖" is mowna's third exhibition of the 2021 year. It directly answers the Whitney Museum of American Art's curatorial question, "The Next Biennial Should Be Curated by a Machine." The show is curated by artificial intelligence. Featuring work from L Akers, B V V Alvarez, A Amaducci, J Belotserkovsky, A Berman, M Bilbao·Herrera, F Brunet, H Brunieri, R Chowdhary, B Coron, N Crank, T David, B DeFranco, S Deumier, Duda, C Eagleeye-Wilson, ebeck, D Figurski, J Florens, P Gervois, A Goldfarb, Dr K Hamilton, Ilona Design Art, B Irizarry, T L Jones, M Kobakhidze, M Lâm, V Laminarca, Y Li, A Lincoln, D Lojek, S Mandsaurwalla, B G Maris, S Mauldin, A El Mokri, L Nazarova, L Oates, D Onzin, A A Pace, L Pelli, C Pettigrew, k pinter, a prum, B Quetzali, S T Rosenthal, N Rusinova, S Ryabchenko, S K Saha, A Salmanpour, J Schwartz, H Shafie, V Sharko, O Synooka, A Taskin, K Tkachenko, D Tomashevych, C Ungersbäck, B A White, J Wolf, S Yuliya
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By mownamuseum
By mownamuseum
artist: Larry Akers
series: Refractories
title: Blue Green Refractory
portfolio: http://www.eyeplaystudio.net
Larry Akers has been doing constructed sculpture in Austin since 2011. Raised in Pampa, Texas, he escaped to Austin by 1973 and over the next 21 years acquired a stack of mathematics and computer science degrees at UT. On the way to becoming an artist, he spent 40 years as an applied computing research scientist, acquiring an affinity for pattern that infuses almost all his artwork. He is a prominent parks advocate in Austin. He loves his wife of 29 years and his son of almost that age, most of the people he knows, dogs, music, water, and fruit.
The refractories are constructed sculptures utilizing refractive material and collage. Inspired by the works of Carlos Cruz-Diez, the refractories shuffle colors from various palettes into each other and are subtly interactive in physical presence, shifting geometrically with the viewer's movements.
Blue Green Refractory -- a refractory from a blue and green dominated palette
Blue Green Refractory is a fully analog, layered piece constructed from a paper collage back panel and a front curtain consisting of a tight array of acrylic rods, all mounted in a wood-framed box with translucent colored acrylic sides and top to admit light. The back panel is in a tessellation pattern tiled with acute quadrilaterals and refracted by the rods to create a jagged blending of the contrasting colors.
This work was exhibited in the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art's This Show is Curated by a Machine 🤖, which took place from September 23, 2021 through January 31, 2022. The show is curated by an artificial intelligence which learned to curate by looking at artworks from the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the 2021 Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art Biennial, and other sources. The show has been added to mowna's collection, which is available for viewing online at https://www.mowna.org.
The winner of this auction will receive a 1/1 limited edition NFT, minted by the museum. 70% of the sale will pay the artist of the NFT for their work, with the remaining 30% paying for the creation of the museum platform. The winner will also unlock a free one month membership code for the museum.
"This Show is Curated by a Machine 🤖" is mowna's third exhibition of the 2021 year. It directly answers the Whitney Museum of American Art's curatorial question, "The Next Biennial Should Be Curated by a Machine." The show is curated by artificial intelligence. Featuring work from L Akers, B V V Alvarez, A Amaducci, J Belotserkovsky, A Berman, M Bilbao·Herrera, F Brunet, H Brunieri, R Chowdhary, B Coron, N Crank, T David, B DeFranco, S Deumier, Duda, C Eagleeye-Wilson, ebeck, D Figurski, J Florens, P Gervois, A Goldfarb, Dr K Hamilton, Ilona Design Art, B Irizarry, T L Jones, M Kobakhidze, M Lâm, V Laminarca, Y Li, A Lincoln, D Lojek, S Mandsaurwalla, B G Maris, S Mauldin, A El Mokri, L Nazarova, L Oates, D Onzin, A A Pace, L Pelli, C Pettigrew, k pinter, a prum, B Quetzali, S T Rosenthal, N Rusinova, S Ryabchenko, S K Saha, A Salmanpour, J Schwartz, H Shafie, V Sharko, O Synooka, A Taskin, K Tkachenko, D Tomashevych, C Ungersbäck, B A White, J Wolf, S Yuliya
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