Hull #16, Mark Roeyer

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Mark Roeyer
born 1943
Hull #16, 1986
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: fir; marline; redwood; oak wood
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 47 x 14 x 149.9 cm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 18 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 59 1/2 in
Credit line: Bequest of Richard M. Hollander
Accession number: 1991.0170
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Windmills to Workshops: Lawrence and the Visual Arts," Jul-2004, Kate Meyer Mark Roeyer has long been fascinated with sailboats and boat construction. After receiving the advice from installation artist Patrick Ireland (Brian O’Doherty) to produce these vessels as art, Roeyer began to create a series called Hulls. The Hulls respond to the figure with their soaring extensions and taught connections but also explore the physics of construction. When the first white settlers broke sod on the prairie they frequently compared the enormous undulating landscape to an inland sea. This analogy still seems apt for Roeyer, who compares Kansas at night to the ocean at night. The suspended sculptures are an outgrowth of this sensation and are experimentations with familiar forms in unexpected space.