Sun Dog, Rockne Krebs

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Rockne Krebs, Sun Dog
Rockne Krebs, Sun Dog
Rockne Krebs
Sun Dog
1976
Rockne Krebs
1938–2011
Sun Dog, 1976
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: screen print
Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 1016 x 812.8 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 40 x 32 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 40 x 32 in
Credit line: Gift of Philip M. Smith
Accession number: 2010.0230
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Rockne Krebs: Drawings for Sculpture You Can Walk Through," Aug-2013, Steve Goddard Sun Dog, a sculpture composed of sunlight and laser light in a geodesic dome, was commissioned by the National Endowment for the Humanities for the U.S. Bicentennial Exposition on Science and Technology at the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral. The title refers to the hotdog stand that Krebs had fabricated and placed in a small boat for the project. Writing for the Sarasota Journal, Marcia Corbino documented the project: The sun streams from above in columns of light which swirl through overhead mist and smoke. The sunlight is intersected by red and green shafts of laser light. Further illuminating the sun and laser light are 200 prisms which divide the light into spectra-rainbows that form across the walls and ceiling and are reflected by a thin film of water on the floor. “The rainbows are not static,” Krebs explains. “They move as the earth turns. I've based the mirror system on a computer printout of the sun's position as seen from this point on the planet at this time of the year.”

Exhibitions

Rockne Krebs: Drawings for Sculpture You Can Walk Through
Stephen Goddard, curator
2013

Citations

Earle, Susan et al., The Register, VIII, No. 3, Part 2 (Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, 2011): 208.