Thursday, October 14, 2010

Wacky IVC sculpture is honored by OC Weekly

They like it; they really like it!

     The OC Weekly’s “Best of OC” issue is out—and guess what? One of those wacky sculptures that sprouted on campus (Irvine Valley College) a year or so ago has won in this category:

Best Public Art – 2010:

     Up Up Up to Where Even George W. Bush Has Got Soul (After Neil Young)
     Jason Butler's 2008 fabricated and forged steel sculpture at Irvine Valley College is a triumph of the living, the breathing and the thinking as curled tendrils spring from concrete and extend toward the sky, attaching and wrapping themselves around a rigid iron beam, a fencepost, changing their color from industrial gray and iodized red to a bright-yellow enamel. The name of the sculpture is inspired by and revised from Neil Young's ode to Richard Nixon ("Campaigner").

I've heard a fair amount of grumbling about this particular piece.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I like it too - but wouldn't you know it - this is NOT the sculpture the IVC Foundation chose to buy. Too bad. They choose one with a little LESS content.

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