Pierced Geode #453
Pierced Geode #453
Robyn Horn
1992
Materials
Madrone burl, ebony, and zebrawood
Size
10 x 30 x 23 inches
Racine Art Museum, Gift of Ronald and Anita Wornick
About the artwork.
Pioneering in an area of contemporary craft that has historically been male-dominated, Robyn Horn manipulates wood into abstracted sculpture. After turning vessels for a time, Horn moved toward sculptural series that allow her to work with wood in expansive ways, including sculpting with a chainsaw. This work, Pierced Geode #453, is from an early series in which she activated the form of a geode by combining contrasting textures, colors, and angles.