Description of Work:
The stainless steel form stands eleven feet tall and four feet wide. It has three seven foot legs that support a horizontal half-circle surface attached to a vertical half-circle. These two shapes have a series of eleven archways projecting between them, creating an architectural effect. The inside portion of the innermost arch is solid and mirror-finished, and is set at an angle of about 15 degrees facing downwards so the viewer can see themselves framed in the artwork.
Artist Statement:
The genesis for the Gateway idea came from the notion of physicalizing the shape a spotlight creates on a surface, in the form of a folded circle (as the light would appear hitting a stage wall). I was looking for an economical form, that is, a shape employing a simple means to suggest complexity, in the same way that a simple stage set can evoke an entire environment.
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