For the Scientists

Title: For the Scientists
LC Subject: Glass construction Glass artists Glass craft Glass painting and staining Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (R) concept scheme glass (material) stained glass (visual works)
Creator: Marquis, Jane;
Description: This stained glass piece spans the entire perimeter of the underground atrium in the Science Library. Variously colored panels present a collection of quotes that pertain to or inform the sciences. A handwritten list of each quote used by the artist can be viewed in the documentation for this piece. The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Lane Arts. You may view their website at http://www.lanearts.org/
Location: Lokey Science Complex >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States Lane County >> Oregon >> United States
Street Address: Klamath Hall, 1370 Franklin Blvd., Eugene Oregon
Award Date: 1989
Identifier: 1989_uo_sci-complex_15_a01
Accession Number: 1989_uo_sci-complex_15_a01
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Marquis, Jane;
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: 6 x 60 inches (44 panels)
Material: Glass handblown stained glass, window glass, copper foil, and zinc framing set in wooden frames
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: 1989 UO Science Complex 1989_uo_sci-complex
Institution: Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
Note: This project included the construction of a complex of four major science buildings, the construction of a new Museum of Natural History and two smaller architecture studio buildings to replace dislocated facilities, and a remodel of a former science building for Architecture and Allied Arts, which lost about 15,000 net square feet of programmatic space to construction of the new science buildings. The project was completed from 1989-1991. An interactive campus map of the University of Oregon may be viewed at: http://map.uoregon.edu/ Sciene Library, perimeter of glassed-in courtyard
Color Space: RGB
Biographical Information: When it became clear that the new science library could not be built, it was suggested that I do stained glass for the existing science library. This site, with over 1600 sq. feet of window looking out to an underground atrium, obviously called for a radically different design than the one intended for the now-not-to-be-built library. My concern was to achieve some kind of architectural unity with relatively small panels set against the larger windows. I placed a panel in each of the 44 windows set mullion to mullion to create a continuous "reading" all the way around the inside of the "glass square." The panels are essentially equal in size and placement but each is unique in color and content. I collected, over the months, quotations directly and indirectly related to the sciences. The lettering is not mechanical (as in type-face) or fastidious (as in fine calligraphy). I've tried for a kind of patterning that fits itself into the six inch by five foot space- taking the letters to the edge of destruction but still readable. The medium itself sustains this ambivalence. Stained-glass changes every hour, every season, every moment in its environment and so I hoped that these wise or wry or provocative statements would merge thru the mixture of light and shadow- sometimes there- sometimes not quite- provoking curiosity and closer attention. I wanted them to be difficult to read- so that it would take time to know what they are saying. It is hoped that in a library there is that time and time also for thinking about them after one has deciphered them (Marquis, 1991).