Iowa Art in State Buildings project for Black Engineering. In the Art on Campus Preparatory Studies and Maquette Collection, Christian Petersen Art Museum, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
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This model was created as part of the design proposal for the Black Engineering Building's Art in State Buildings Project and was submitted to the campus review committee in 1986. During that time, artist Tom Stancliffe was working in Bruce White’s studio helping to fabricate metal sculptures. This collaborative relationship between Stancliffe and University Museums continued to grow from this moment on.
An abstracted sculpture, Carom reflects the tensile strength and manipulations of metal, and the engineering's department's investigations of materials and their tensile strengths. Created from a rectangle sliced once from each direction vertically, the form is then twisted and pulled to construct an abstract, bending form.
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