id: 168324 accession number: 2010.156 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.156 updated: 2019-11-18 12:33:30.195000 Matrix Series: Catenary Ellipsoid...Bi, 2010. Brent Kee Young (American, b. 1946). Lampwork glass; overall: 88.9 x 55.9 x 28 cm (35 x 22 x 11 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Linda Burwasser Schneider 2010.156 title: Matrix Series: Catenary Ellipsoid...Bi title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2010 creation date earliest: 2010 creation date latest: 2010 current location: 228A Cleveland Artists creditline: Gift of Linda Burwasser Schneider copyright: --- culture: America, 21st century technique: lampwork glass department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Sculpture type: Glass find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Brent Kee Young (American, b. 1946) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 88.9 x 55.9 x 28 cm (35 x 22 x 11 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: In Honor of The Cleveland Arts Prize opening date: 2010-06-13T00:00:00 In Honor of The Cleveland Arts Prize. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 13, 2010-March 13, 2011). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Cleveland Museum of Art (06/13/2010 - 03/13/2011): "In Honor of the Cleveland Arts Prize" --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: The artist defined form using only light and line in this sculpture. digital description: Walk around this sculpture and look closely at the play of light and shadow that creates a variety of shapes and textures. This sculpture presents a juxtaposition of airy lightness that occupies space with a suggestion of volume. wall description: Young's latest work consists of thin rods of Pyrex glass that are heated and assembled with great facility into web-like sculptures that, in his words, address the question, "Can form be defined using only light and line?"Many of the resulting pieces reveal the artist's keen interests in calculus and geometry. In this example, two catenary curves have been "rotated" into a three-dimensional form that is suspended amid a rectilinear compositional base, which, in turn, is bisected down its middle. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES