Ralph Helmick
| Ralph Helmick | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 8, 1952 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
University of Michigan School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| Known for | Sculpture, Public art |
| Website | www |
Ralph Helmick (born 1952) is an American sculptor and public artist.
Helmick received a BA at the University of Michigan. He studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and then earned an MFA in sculpture from a joint program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University.
Helmick has worked in various materials (metal, stained glass, cast resin, found objects) to create large-scale public sculptures in parks, airports, schools, hospitals, museums, and other civic spaces across the US. His works play on human perception, and often employ anamorphosis, an optical phenomenon where images are resolved from a precise perspective.
Helmick's award-winning works include the Arthur Fiedler Memorial on the Charles River Esplanade; the Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial at Austin's Auditorium Shores; Rabble at the North Carolina Museum of Art; Landing at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport; Heart and Mind at the Oregon Institute of Technology.
In 2014, Ralph Helmick juried the Public Art Network Year in Review. His own commissions had been awarded the PAN YiR on eight previous occasions.
Helmick Sculpture is based in Newton, Massachusetts. The studio is currently working on its first international projects.
Biorenewables Complex, Iowa State University / Ames, Iowa
This is a three-story suspended sculpture made using eight laser-cut steel panels showing the horizon of a changing landscape, said to depict the evolution of agriculture from the nineteenth-century to the modern day. They are interspersed with abstract perforated "mist" panels, and framed above by a "sun" sequence.
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