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Kenneth Snelson

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Kenneth Duane Snelson (June 29, 1927 – December 22, 2016) was an American contemporary sculptor and photographer. His sculptural works, exemplified by Needle Tower, are composed of flexible and rigid components arranged according to the idea of 'tensegrity'. Snelson preferred the descriptive term floating compression.

Snelson said his former professor Buckminster Fuller took credit for Snelson's discovery of the concept that Fuller named tensegrity.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Fuller gave the idea its name, combining 'tension' and 'structural integrity.' Kārlis Johansons had exhibited tensegrity sculptures several years before Snelson was even born. The height and strength of Snelson's sculptures, which are often delicate in appearance, depend on the tension between rigid pipes and flexible cables.

BiographyEdit

Snelson was born in Pendleton, Oregon, in 1927. He studied at the University of Oregon in Eugene, at the Black Mountain College,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and with Fernand Léger in Paris. His sculpture and photography have been exhibited at over 25 one-man shows in galleries around the world including the structurally seminal Park Place Gallery in New York in the 1960s. Snelson also did research on the shape of the atom. Snelson continued to work in his SoHo studio, occasionally collaborating with animator Jonathan Monaghan.<ref>38th Rotterdam Film Festival Shorts Program</ref> He lived in New York City with his wife, Katherine.

He held five United States patents: #3,169,611: Discontinuous Compression Structures, February 1965; #3,276,148: Model for Atomic Forms, October 1966; #4,099,339: Model for Atomic Forms, July 1978; and #6,017,220: Magnetic Geometric Building System; and most recently, #6,739,937: Space Frame Structure Made by 3-D Weaving of Rod Members, May 25, 2004.

Snelson was a founding member of ConStruct, the artist-owned gallery that promoted and organized large-scale sculpture exhibitions throughout the United States. Other founding members include Mark di Suvero, John Raymond Henry, Lyman Kipp and Charles Ginnever. Snelson was also a pioneer of digital art, using a Silicon Graphics machine to produce artistic images in the 1980s.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

After suffering from prostate cancer, Snelson died on December 22, 2016, at the age of 89.<ref>Kenneth Snelson, Sculptor Who Fused Art, Science and Engineering, Dies at 89</ref>

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Honours and awardsEdit

  • (1999) Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, International Sculpture Center.

Sculptures in public collections and public spacesEdit

United StatesEdit

AlabamaEdit

CaliforniaEdit

  • City Boots, 1968, J. Patrick Lannon Foundation, Los Angeles
  • Mozart I, 1982, Stanford University, Palo Alto

District of ColumbiaEdit

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FloridaEdit

  • Newport, 1968, M. Margulies, Coconut Grove
  • Double City Boots, 1967, MDC Wolfson Campus, Miami
  • X-Planar Tower, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

IowaEdit

  • Four Module Piece, 1968, Riverfront Crossings Park, Iowa City

LouisianaEdit

  • Virlane Tower, 1981, Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at NOMA, New Orleans

MarylandEdit

MassachusettsEdit

  • Mozart III, 2008, Science Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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MichiganEdit

  • Indexer II, 2001, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • B-Tree II, 2005, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids

MissouriEdit

  • Triple Crown, 1991, Hallmark, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri, just north of 27th Street between Main Street and Grand Blvd, at the South end of the Crown Center complex. The sculpture consists of 30–40 aluminum tubes held together and apart by steel cables. The entire assembly is roughly 23 meters on each of three sides and roughly that tall, with the low point being roughly 5 meters above the ground.<ref>This description was judged by eye from the image in Google Earth. It could be improved by closer inspection. Freedom of panorama in the United States does not extend to art work. Thus, including photos of this in Wikimedia Commons would require the permission of the owner, Crown Center. Template:Cite Q</ref>

NebraskaEdit

New YorkEdit

New JerseyEdit

  • Northwood II, 1970, Compton Quad, Graduate College, Princeton, Mercer

North CarolinaEdit

PennsylvaniaEdit

OhioEdit

OklahomaEdit

TennesseeEdit

TexasEdit

  • Northwood, 1969, Northwood Institute, Cedar Hills

VermontEdit

  • "Hard Wired", Bennington (College)

WisconsinEdit

InternationalEdit

GermanyEdit

  • Soft Landing, 1975–77, Berlin Nationalgalerie, Berlin
  • Avenue K, 1968, City of Hannover

The NetherlandsEdit

  • Easy-K, 1970, Sonsbeek ‘70, Arnhem
  • Needle Tower II, 1969, Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo

JapanEdit

  • Osaka, 1970, Japan Iron & Steel Federation, Kobe
  • Needle Tower II, 1989, Shiga Prefecture Museum, Shiga
  • T-Zone Flight, 1995, JT Building, Toranomon, Tokyo
  • Landing, 1970, Wakayama Prefecture Museum, Wakayama

Location unknownEdit

  • Audrey I, 1966, Private Collection
  • Audrey II, 1966, Private Collection
  • Equilateral Quivering Tower, 1973–92
  • Tri-Core Column, 1974
  • Wing I, 1992; Ed. 4, Private collection : University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez
  • Rainbow Arch, 2001, Private collection displayed at Seltzer Sculpture Garden, Cleveland, OH
  • Dragon, 2000–03

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