Lyman Whitaker
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Biography
Lyman Whitaker is an American sculptor working in southern Utah. Whitaker has been a working sculptor for more than 40 years and is known for his kinetic sculptures.
Early work
Whitaker's early work consisted of largely representational sculpture, varying from traditional bronzes to small mobiles to public fountains.
Recent work
Since the early 1980s, Whitaker has focused on kinetic art, creating "Wind Sculpturestm"--- artworks driven by the wind. His constructs are organic in nature and dependent upon their natural surroundings to provide their movement. They are also intended to make the observers think about those surroundings and of their own relation to nature.
His compositions can vary from single, 5 foot (1.5 m) tall pieces to "Wind ForestsTM" consisting of groups of sculptures standing up to 27 foot (8.2 m) tall.
Whitaker's work appears in fine art galleries around the country. In addition, public and private installations exist throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia, including:
- Worthington Gallery
- The Bennington Center for the Arts
- El Prado Gallery
- Envision Gallery
- Freed Gallery
- Grovewood Gallery
- Hogan Trading Co.
- Iron Horse Gallery
- Juniper Sky Fine Art Gallery
- Leopold Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO
- * Missouri Botanical Garden
- Maine Art Gallery
- The Torrey Gallery*
- The Vickers Collection (Beaver Creek, Vail Village Arts, Wood River Gallery)
- Wiford Gallery
- Steffich Fine Art and sister site Windsculptures.ca
- The Gardens at SUIe
- Marcus Ashley Gallery
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