sculpture

Big Suit

This large, painted aluminum suit at Citygarden in downtown St. Louis caught my eye, but it wasn’t until much later that I learned that the artist, Erwin Wurm, is Austrian…maybe that’s why I like it so much!

Triton Tuesday–Changing Identities

This sculpture at the UMSL South Metrolink Station is beautiful!

“Untitled” Rocks

My other favorite piece at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden was an untitled set of rocks painted with a cool, shimmering, metallic paint in lovely shades:

Like most art, I can’t tell you exactly why I was drawn to it, only that I was.

Again I was grateful for the rain that had fallen which offered some interesting views reflecting off the puddles!

“Spoonbridge and Cherry”

As promised, here’s a closer look at my very favorite sculpture in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden…”Spoonbridge and Cherry.” Pretty self-explanatory, no?

I especially love that not only is the spoon sitting in the water, the stem of the cherry is also a water feature!

This was a really cool thing to get to see in person, with the city in the background and the cherry standing out against the grey sky!

Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

One of my favorite things about our trip to Minneapolis last month was getting to visit the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. It’s a beautiful place, with many interesting pieces of art. My two favorites (which I’ll be looking at in greater detail in the coming days) were “Spoonbridge and Cherry,” which I’m told is a favorite of locals, as well, and at set of shimmering “Untitled” rocks:

There were so many other cool sculptures, too:

We were fortunate to experience only a bit of light rain while we were there, but the rain that had fallen earlier made for some excellent puddle photography!

I love finding cool local places to visit when we travel!

Flight of Butterflies

You know how much I like a public art project, so when we stumbled across the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum’s “Flight of Butterflies” exhibition on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, I was really excited. My children were, I think, a little afraid that I was going to try to find all of the butterflies, but I was satisfied to see eight (and photograph seven) of the sculptures as we walked down the Magnificent Mile. I think that’s pretty good for an art exhibit I didn’t even know about until we arrived!