Blue and Violet Ceiling Structure

Rockne Krebs

1938–2011

Blue and Violet Ceiling Structure, 1965

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: drawing pencil; colored pencil

Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 34.3 x 41.9 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 13 1/2 x 16 1/2 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 25 in

Credit line: Gift of Philip M. Smith

Accession number: 2010.0216

Not on display

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Exhibition Label: "Rockne Krebs: Drawings for Sculpture You Can Walk Through," Aug-2013, Steve Goddard Having completed his military service in 1965, four years after receiving his MFA in sculpture at KU, Krebs focused his attention on his sculptural practice. Around this time he began experimenting with Plexiglas, a medium that allowed him to explore his fascination with the articulation of space through line, light, and transparency. The phrases in the title of his early drawings exhibited here (“floor structure,” for example, and “ceiling structure”) indicate that he was also thinking in terms of installations in space. Soon the colored lines that appeared in his drawings would find expression in neon tubes and laser light.