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Cell Cube with Purple Manipulation

Cell Cube with Purple Manipulation

 
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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Cell Cube with Purple Manipulation
Department
Modern
Place Made: 
United States, Carbondale, IL
Date: 
2012
Color
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yellow
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brown
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green
Technique
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casting
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cutting
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laminating
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carving
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 22.6 cm, W: 21.8 cm, D: 20.5 cm
Accession Number: 
2012.4.4
Credit Line: 
Purchased with funds from Corning Incorporated in honor of Chairman Kun-hee Lee of Samsung
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Shades of transparent yellow glass with slight brown and green tints; cast, cut, laminated, carved. Solid glass cube with triangular section missing from one half of one edge. Cube consists of several laminated pieces of glass of varying sizes and shapes.
Label Text
Lee’s subtle but complex forms are geometric in shape and organic in approach. His sculpture is inspired by images of microscopic embryos and cells that he has gathered from a variety of sources, ranging from contemporary biology textbooks to early 20th-century illustrations by the German naturalist Ernst Haeckel. Lee says that his “cells” are based on his “fascination with cell division and the journey of evolution that starts from a single cell, goes through a million divisions, and then becomes life.”
Inscription
JINYONG LEE 2012 Engraved on one wall near base
Provenance
Duane Reed Gallery, Source to 2012-02-13

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