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Outdoor Sculpture

Email: llord@indyarts.org

 (317) 631-3301 ext. 214

 Mass Ave and New York St, Indianapolis, IN, 46204

Artist Eric Nordgulen created these three figural forms in 1996. Serving as visual links between downtown’s buildings and pedestrians, the figures contain both clear glass that makes them transparent, and lenses that reflect images of the surrounding architecture and passing foot traffic. The lenses (“fresnel” type) are the same that are used for theatre lighting and also for page magnification:  if you get close to the sculpture, you will see an inverted image of yourself in several of the lenses.  In this way, the viewer becomes part of the sculpture.

As with most of Nordgulen’s work, the questions raised by the sculpture have to do with self-awareness and how we understand the world.  Do we see it as it is, or how we interpret it to be?  Are we part of the urban landscape, or is the urban landscape part of us?

Medium type: Aluminum - Glass - Metal

Date created: 1996

Location Info

Mass Ave and New York St

Mass Ave and New York St, Indianapolis, IN, 46204