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by Blue Sky
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Welded steel sculpture connecting two historic buildings in Columbia, SC - the Kress Building and the Sylvan Building.... more
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Welded steel sculpture connecting two historic buildings in Columbia, SC - the Kress Building and the Sylvan Building.
Integrated Chain Sculpture
Connecting the Sylvan Bros. Building & Kress Building
1500 Block Main Street
Length: 25 feet
Diameter: 5 feet
Installed 2000
Sky conceived and installed "NEVERBUST" in 2000, commissioning and funding the entire project himself. The chain is comprised of true welded steel, with the words "NEVERBUST" emblazoned across the center links. The idea was preceded by Sky's installed exhibit "Space Lace" at the Columbus Museum circa 1972. A chain ten feet in height, "Space Lace" ran vertically and appeared to hold the roof onto the building.
Fearing censorship by the city but with the approval of the owners of both buildings he surreptitiously installed "NEVERBUST" early on a Sunday morning. Because it chains two historic buildings together and hovers over city property, the city of Columbia's Landmarks Co...
Blue Sky Post-War American b.1938 as Warren Edward Johnson, legally changed name in 1974 signed paintings previously to 1974 as WAR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Studied at the Art Students League in New York 1965, & University of Mexico, Mexico City, 1961 Received Bachelors and Masters degrees from University of South Carolina, (1964 & 1970) Studied under Edmund Yaghjian - (Yaghjian was an Armenian immigrant and friend and student of Ash Can artists, Sloan and Henri) Received Order of the Palmetto -- the states highest civilian honor in 2000. GSA Commissioned federal mural, 1978 -- won Design Award, original rendition for mural...
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Kathy Krause
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Bill Cannon
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Barbara Chase
Your work is awesome, Blue Sky. A wonderful and powerful juxtaposition of incongruity...which I find endlessly fascinating. F/L