Today's adventure takes us to the corner of SW Broadway & Montgomery, on the Portland State University campus, where we encounter Yankee Champion, a big stainless steel abstract sculpture next to the university's business school building. Gentle Readers may recall that I'm generally fond of this sort of thing. This one is a bit more... medical-looking than most, but hey. Or possibly dental. Or perhaps it's a very intricate and expensive German auto part.
I've been able to discover very little about it from the interwebs; here are the few morsels I've come across:
- Two photos on the artist's website. His site notes that he switched from abstract to figurative sculpture in 1988. I like the abstract stuff better, but that's really a general personal preference rather than a comment on any particular work.
- PSU's flickr stream has an artsy photo, and the UO Library has the same photo plus more info, and mentions that the artist is a prof at OSU.
- A Scientific Commons page (which appears to be broken right now) describes it as: "A large, outdoor, shiny metal sculpture uniting a conglomerate of shapes supported by three irregularly shaped legs." Cached page here.
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"Medical" or "dental" are good descriptions. I always thought it resembled something that might be used in executions, or perhaps some form of elaborate torture.
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