Images(2)

Untitled Triple Loop

Object Name4-part Sculpture

Maker Paul Seide (American, b. 1949)

Made FromNon-lead glass

Date1981

Place MadeUnited States

TechniqueBlown glass filled with neon gas, sealed while hot

Size(a) Base H: 14.2 cm, W: 33.7 cm, D: 27.5 cm; (b) Blue Sculpture Part H: 31.3 cm, W: 32.3 cm, D: 8 cm; (c) Amethyst Sculpture Part H: 37.2 cm, W: 21.4 cm, D: 7.5 cm; (d) Orange Sculpture Part H: 31 cm, W: 19.8 cm, D: 7.9 cm

Accession Number91.4.61

Credit LineGift of Harry Horvitz

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Bending Light: Neon Art 1965 to Now

On ViewContemporary Art + Design, Porch

Physical Description4-part Sculpture, "Untitled Triple Loop". Colorless non-lead glass almost completely overlaid with: transparent cobalt blue, orange striated with yellow/amber, amethyst/red; black Plexiglas base; blown glass filled with gases, sealed while hot with electrodes. Three blown glass semi-inflated tubes bent in half to varying degrees and at contrasting angles to form non-identical loops, each tube has section of greatest swelling near center; amethyst section is tallest and bent at sharpest angle, placed between orange/amber and cobalt which has widest separation between ends and is bent at lowest angle towards base; tubes are filled with gases then sealed on each end with colorless glass and electrodes; electrode ends fit into holes of asymmetrical trapezium base enclosing electrical transformer that activates glasses when plugged into standard electrical outlet; inscribed in script on lower edge of short side of base: "© Paul Seide 1981".
Provenance

Source Harry Horvitz - 1991-09-03