sculpture

Object NameSculpture

Artist Paul Seide (American, b. 1949)

Made FromSoda-lime glass, neon vapor, mercury vapor, copper, lead wire, radio transmitter

Date1986

Place MadeUnited States, NY, New York City

Techniqueblown and hot-worked, cased, ground

SizeOverall H: 48.4 cm, W: 53.5 cm, D: 30 cm

Accession Number87.4.41

Credit LineGift in part of Mike Belkin

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Curiosities of Glassmaking

Not On View

Physical DescriptionStriated shades of transparent purple and orange cased in colorless soda-lime glass, neon, mercury vapor, radio transmitter; glass is blown and cased, hot-worked. Interlocking looped spirals; large and small 1 1/2 turn spirals that interlock and rest vertically with ends curling upward; ends taper from thin to thick which has been ground flat; sections sit on radio field transmitter that activates enclosed gases; inscribed on broad flat ends of both sections: "Seide".
Provenance

Source Mike Belkin - 1987-04-18

Source Heller Gallery - 1987-04-18