Expanded Thought
Expanded Thought by Brose Partington, Nylon, Steel, Fan, Timer, 2013 Expanded Thought is a two-month temporary installation in the stairwell of the Illinois Fall Creek Building on Ivy Tech’s Central Indiana Campus. Expanded Thought is an inflatable sculpture shaped like a thought cloud that inflates and deflates every seven minutes or so. The sculpture is influenced by the hard-edged architecture of the stairwell, the railings, and the way the area seems to “contain†the object. The thought cloud, which is always in movement,...
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Dawnsong
“Dawnsong” is a kinetic sculpture that serves as an interactive bike rack. A steel obelisk with a hand-crank on it juts upwards with a birdhouse resting on the top. The aluminum bird house has multiple holes throughout its multiple “stories.” When the hand-crank is turned the house expands and contracts slightly. The sculpture is placed at the Efroymson Canoe Launch area along the White River near the Monon...
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Entangled © Copyright 2004 – Brose Partington Entangled is an abstract sculpture created by Indiana-based artist Brose Partington (American b. 1979). The sculpture is located on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus at the Herron School of Art and Design, 735 W. New York Street in Indianapolis, Indiana in the United States. It was given to Herron by the Honorable Ezra Freidlander and Linda H. Freidlander in 2005. Entangled is an abstract sculpture consisting of eight unique elements bolted together to create an enclosed form. The powder coated steel...
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Fishing for Instant Gratification
Fishing for Instant Gratification © Copyright 2006 – Brose...
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Sold
“Sold” 5′ x 5′, red dots, motor, wood © Copyright 2008 – Brose Partington Purpose: The systematic placement of a tiny red dot on sold artworks is a time honored tradition that gallerists have manipulated as a sales tool from day one. Under the guise that the desire for something unavailable breeds a more intense longing, even a frenzy, the practice of an art dealer placing red dots on unsold works is a sales tool used to set an urgent fire in the heart (and mind) of a...
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