Big Edge
Rubins, Nancy
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Date
2009Description
Context view from W. Harmon Avenue; "Big Edge" sits in the middle of the traffic circle outside the front entrance of Vdara Hotel. It is a colorful collection of about 200 rowboats, kayaks, canoes, surfboards, paddle boats and catamarans wrapped together with stainless steel wire cable forming a web-like structure that is designed to "evoke a blooming flower." Nancy Rubins is an American sculptor famous for "gravity-defying" works created from salvaged industrial consumer goods like airplane parts, electrical appliances, mattresses and boats. "Big Edge" is 57-by-75-feet and took about six weeks to build.
Type of Work
sculpture (visual work)Subject
abstraction, contemporary (1960 to present), Boats and boating, found art, adaptive re-use, Twenty-first century
Rights
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