Sunshine in Your Smile I
Completed
2024
Medium
Powder coated steel, epoxy, stone, hardware
Dimensions
68 x 66 x 56"
Cost
$14,000
Description
Sunshine In Your Smile is inspired by the way we shape nature, and are shaped by it in return. The main elements of the sculpture – the blue steel frame, and the cast sculpted tulips, reference diamonds and flowers, two natural elements the we frequently shape and hone from their “natural” or raw forms in order to give them more value in our culture. Both diamonds and flowers are also gifts frequently given to convey a specific message – romantic love, a promise to marry, well wishes, condolences. The cut, color, and setting of a diamond changes what we read into that gem, and the message we get from flowers varies by the type of flower and color. In the Victorian era, an intricate symbolic language of flowers developed, and learning this symbolic language was a popular pastime. How flowers were presented, in what condition, and by whom all were important in decoding the language. Sunshine In Your Smile is the meaning often assigned to yellow tulips in Victorian times. The elements shift in scale from molecular to actual size. The blue steel frame references the “crystal lattice” molecular structure of a diamond, and is supported on one side by a rock in its natural form. Suspended within the framework are larger-than-life-size sculpted tulips, the colors and shape of which shift in a gradient from closed and yellow at top to open orange near the bottom.
About this Artist
Carin Mincemoyer
Carin Mincemoyer’s work has been recognized with grants and awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the International Sculpture Center, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She has been awarded public commissions in Pittsburgh, New York City, and Philadelphia. Carin’s work has been exhibited at various venues including the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, PA, Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NY, and SPACES in Cleveland, OH. She has been an Artist in Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE and the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. She holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA from the University at Buffalo. Based in Pittsburgh, PA, she is on the faculty of Point Park University. Carin Mincemoyer’s work ponders the ways in which humans try to embrace, struggle to control, yearn for, reject, and alter the natural environment. Her creative practice encompasses…
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