Campond, Beverly Pepper

Campond, 1969-70

Beverly Pepper (1924- )

Can be found in the NYS plaza 

1) High Relief

2) Chrome-plated Steel 

3) The folding of the steel gives this sculpture a lot of volume.

4) Many straight smooth lines are formed together to form this sculpture. 

5) Empty space is given over the top of the left side of the sculpture. There is also a lot of space in the middle of the two pieces of folding steel. 

6) No additional color is adding to this sculpture. But personally I think the silver makes this look the best and adds a mirror look to it. 

7) No additional light has been added. 

8) The chrome-plated steel has been melted together to form this sculpture.  

The Empty Room, Seymour Lipton

The Empty Room, 1964

Seymour Lipton (1903- )

Can be found in the NYS Plaza 

1) High Relief 

2) Nickel-Silver on Monel Metal

3) This sculpture has an interesting volume. The round pieces at the top give it an unique form. 

4) There are some rough lines in this sculpture. The Nickel-Silver doesn't form straight ruts but the artist does try to file down the material to make it as smooth as possible. There aren't many geometric forms.  

5) Not much space is added to this sculpture. Some space is in between the top structure and the main body part. 

6) No additional color is added. The brownish color is form the Nickel-Silver. 

7) The plaza does show one light added to make this piece of work stand out more. I personally think that the light makes this piece look more powerful. 

8) The Nickel-Silver on Monel Metal must have been melted and smoothed out to form this sculpture. Lipton had to use many specific tools to make this smooth. 

West End, David Von Schlegell

West End, 1966 

Donald Von Schlegell (1920-1992)

Can be found in the NYS Plaza

1) High Relief

2) Aluminum

3) Two long rectangle pieces of aluminum are formed together with one geometric piece of aluminum. All the pieces remain smooth and organic. 

4) The lines allow the defined geometric shapes.

5) The two rectangle pieces allows space to be in the middle of the sculpture. 

6) There is no additional color added to this sculpture. It gets its originally silver color from the aluminum.  

7) No additional light has been added. 

8) The aluminum was melted and conjoined together to form this sculpture. 

Z, Mary Callery

Z, 1963

Mary Callery (1903-1977)

Can be found in the NYS Plaza

1) High Relief

2) Brass

3) This sculpture is put together with geometric long rectangles to give it the long stringy look. This reminds me of a animal with legs.

4) Many lines are added to the bottom of the sculpture to give it more volume. 

5) The space between the two parts of the sculpture make the whole piece more interesting and allows the artist to add more details. 

6) No additional color is added to this sculpture. The brown comes right from the brass itself. 

7) No additional light has been added. 

8) The brass has been melted, cut and formed back together to make this sculpture. 

Untitled, Donald Judd

Donald Judd (1928-1994)

Untitled, 1968

On loan from the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection

Can be found in the NYS Museum 

1) High Relief
2) This sculpture was made out of stainless steel and Amber Plexiglas.
3) This uses geometric rectangles to give the sculpture a 3-D look.
4) Lines help form the rectangles in the sculpture to make it pop out of the wall.
5) The empty space between the rectangles gives the sculpture a completely different look and allows the artist to add color.
6) Orange lights were added to this sculpture.
7) Light allows color reflections to go onto the wall giving it a different kind of look.
8) The steel was probably melting into the shape of a rectangle and the Amber Plexiglas allows the orange color to come through.