Braced Spine
- Title
- Braced Spine
- LC Subject
- Sculpture Public sculpture Public art Metal sculpture Steel sculpture Glass art Glass artists Glass construction Glass craft Glass sculpture sculpture (visual work) public sculpture glass (material) steelwork (visual works)
- Creator
- Mee, Nancy
- Description
- A tall sculpture with two layers of black steel platform holding up two steel rods that twist as they go upwards. In the middle is a blue glass rod with a glass shape with flat planes at the very top. Braced Spine; 1992; (90 x 20 x 14 inches) Nancy Mee was born in Oakland, California, eventually moving to Seattle where she received a B.F.A. from the University of Washington. In 1984 she was a resident at Pilchuck School and in 1988 won the Betty Bowen Memorial Award. Mee's unique sculpture is fabricated out of fused and slumped glass and incorporates forged and cut metals. Exhibitions include the Seattle Art Museum, Bellevue Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, and the Centre International d'Art Contemporain in Chateau Beychevelle, France. Collections include Safeco, Microsoft, the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Musee des Arts Decoratives in Lausanne, Switzerland. The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
- View
- front
- Location
- The Valley Library >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 121 The Valley Library, Corvallis Oregon
- Date
- 1975/2012
- Identifier
- 1995_osu_valley-library_41_a01
- Accession Number
- 1995_osu_valley-library_41_a01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Mee, Nancy
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 90 x 20 x 14 inches
- Material
- Sculpture; glass; steel
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1995 - 1997 Biiennium Valley Library Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon 1995_osu_valley-library
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Note
- To view a map of the artwork location in context to Oregon State University, see http://oregonstate.edu/cw_tools/campusmap/locations.php
- Color Space
- RGB
