Category South Campus Sculptures (Pg 1)
Sculture: Normanno Wedge (1980) Artist: Beverly Pepper Group Members: Eythan Frost, Alex Barber, and Justin Edwards Artist Statement: We created this video to inform viewers about the history and background of the Normanno Wedge. Our video showcases how this… Continue Reading →
About the Artist Alice Aycock was born in Pennsylvania in1946. She was mentored in the 1960s by Robert Morris, a minimalist sculptor. Aycock is a sculptor and installation artist. In her earlier works she explored land art and her relationship… Continue Reading →
About: Tom Otterness Tom Otterness was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1952. He moved to New York in 1970 to begin studying art, and soon after began an independent study program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1977… Continue Reading →
Group 15’s assigned piece was the Normanno Column by Beverly Pepper. The video below is their response. An Artist Statement: Walking across campus one might not notice the extent of depth to which artists have placed in their pieces across… Continue Reading →
This stone enclosure sculpture located on the southeast corner of the Western Washington University campus is a piece by the architectural visual artist Nancy Holt. Holt was an artist who specialized in earth works and land art. However, what made… Continue Reading →
About Richard Serra Richard Serra, born in 1939 in San Francisco, California, is a minimalist sculptor, known worldwide for his large-scale steel work installations. Serra has now been married to Clara Weyergrat for almost 40 years. He was raised by… Continue Reading →
The sculpture we were assigned to react to was John Keppelman’s 1978 “Garapata”. The sculpture is three aluminum sheets welded together and painted white. He came to the decision of this shape after working with origami paper, forming shapes both consciously… Continue Reading →
“This sculpture always brightens my day. I pass it every morning on my way to class and it always manages to put me in a good mood” –WWU Sophomore About the Artist The renowned sculpture artist, Tom Otterness, was… Continue Reading →
Bruce Nauman, the creator of Western Washington University’s stadium piece, is an American artist from Indiana with a background in performance art, photography, video, sculpture, and many other mediums. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Nauman is a major figure in… Continue Reading →
Nancy Holt created Rock Rings as an interactive piece of art that aligned with the north star, Polaris. The archways face north and south, and the holes in the piece represent east, west, northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest, corresponding with… Continue Reading →