Kennett

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Object Name: 
2-part Sculpture
Title: 
Kennett
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
86.4.31
Dimensions: 
(a&b) H: 71.4 cm; (a) W: 21.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1985
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass, yellow washed oak body; sand cut glass (nose), carved oak, cast concrete. Vertical four-legged animal atop stepped platform; sand cast thick triangular "head" attached to carved and painted (oil) oak body with epoxy and silicone; body consists of rectangularly shaped torso and four long, irregular, tapered legs; figure sits atop cast concrete tall "Ziggurat"; base stepped on two short sides in three shallow steps; inscribed on lower edge of glass: "Kabasz/1985".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Kobasz, Mark (b. 1957), Source
1986-04-21
Color: 
Colorless, yellow washed oak
colorless
Technique: 
sand cast glass (nose), curved oak, cast concrete
Inscription: 
Kobasz/1985
signature
Copyright: 
© Mark Kobasz

Exhibitions (1)

The Figure in Glass
Venue(s)
New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art 1985 through 1985

Publications (3)

Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 243; BIB# 32803
New Glass Review, 7 (1986) illustrated, p. 18, pl. 44;
Recent Acquisitions: Corning (New Work) (1986) p. 38; BIB# AI16861