SYLVIA STONE

Cortona, 1984-85painted aluminum36h x 54w x 7d in 91.44h x 137.16w x 17.78d cm

Cortona, 1984-85

painted aluminum

36h x 54w x 7d in
91.44h x 137.16w x 17.78d cm

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Constructivist sculptor Sylvia Stone was born in 1928 in Toronto, Canada and is known for her large-scale sculpture with environmental themes. Her preferred mediums are transparent plexiglas and opaque acrylic sheets, sometimes as long as 30 feet. She began this type of work in sculpture as a transition in the 1960s from working with shaped paintings on plastic. Her motive, a reaction from an unhappy childhood, was to "create a poetic, aesthetic environment as an alternative to the real world and present the spectator with the illusion of a fantastic architecture, which can be entered." (Rubinstein, 366).

Hilltown, c. 1985painted aluminum38h x 60w x 10d in 96.52h x 152.40w x 25.40d cm

Hilltown, c. 1985

painted aluminum

38h x 60w x 10d in
96.52h x 152.40w x 25.40d cm