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Tick Tock Kick Clock
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Wendell CastleSculpture (INTERIOR)
Bank of America Center
About the Artwork
Four bottle green/turquoise columns supporting a brushed stainless-colored slab with an inverted pyramid-shaped wood piece done in maple with a round maple base above the stainless slab; the maple base supports two black legs, one of which “kicks” a second-hand ball around the maple base; atop the black legs is a circular clock face in bottle green/turquoise with black hands; theree black knobs are located on the clock at the 12:00, 3:00 and 9:00 positions.
The stylized “human” clock rotates a quarter turn every quarter hour, returning to the starting point at the top of each hour. As chimes strike the hour, the clock’s articulated leg pulls back to kick the ball containing numbers - once for each hour. On the final kick, the ball drops off the turntable onto the base. It remains there for the first quarter hour and returns to the pedestal to be kicked again when the next hour chimes.
About the Artist
Wendell Castle
Wendell Castle was born in Emporia, Kansas in 1932. He received his BA and MFA at the University of Kansas. Now artist-in-residence at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Castle ran his own school in Scottsville, New York in the 1980s. He's a trustee of the American Craft Council and an Honorary Trustee of the Renwick Gallery.
In 1994, his one-man show "Wendell Castle: Coming to Grips" was seen at Wichita State University and at the Morgan Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1992, he appeared on "Style, with Elsa Klensch" on CNN, and he was the subject (along with Albert Paley) of an hourlong documentary called "Made In America" produced by WXXI, Rochester, New York. Also in 1994, he was named a "Visionary of the American Craft Movement" by the American Craft Museum.
Castle created the case for the 500,000th Steinway Piano, which has toured the country since 1989.
Did you know?
Two Winter Park art organizations have outdoor sculpture gardens, the Albin Polasek museum and the Crealde School of Art
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