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Permanent Collection
Sculpture |
Southern
Alleghenies
Museum of Art
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James Owen Loney
(American, b. 1944)
Tangents of the Solar Eclipse,
1995
Yellow Plexiglas and red monofilament
line, 50" x 282" x 30"
Gift of the artist
(95.117)
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From the atom to the cosmos, the symbolic
circle recurs in Jim Loney's Conceptual sculpture as a powerful
context for conscious and subconscious worlds. His Tangents of
the Solar Eclipse (1995) is based upon studies of an eclipse
of the sun in May of 1994. Celestial cycles and seasonal ebb and
flow are captured in this site specific installation that directs
light through seven yellow Plexiglas panels suspended by strands
of red monofilament line. Born in
Champaign, Illinois, Loney received a B.S. in art from Indiana
State University and an M.F.A. from Temple University's Tyler
School of Art, where he taught from 1971 to 1974. He has also
taught and curated exhibitions at Southeast Arkansas Arts and
Science Center, Ball State University of Indiana, Pasadena's Arts
Center College of Design, and Pittsburgh's Society for
Contemporary Crafts and Children's Museum. Loney's Conceptual and
Minimal sculptures have been exhibited and acquired by museums and
art centers throughout the Mid-Atlantic region and Midwestern
states.
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Southern
Alleghenies Museum of Art
Saint Francis University Mall
P.O. Box 9,
Loretto,
Pennsylvania 15940
Phone: (814) 472-3920
sama-art.org
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