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12 - THE GALLERY July 10, 2009 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly
CHATTANOOGA, TENN. —
RoGallery.com announces the recent
sale of a large outdoor sculpture titled
“Arriving Home” by Dennis Oppenheim
to the Hunter Museum of American
Art in Chattanooga, Tenn. Oppenheim
created “Arriving Home” in 2007.
The sculpture has been installed at
Miller Plaza as a part of the Museum’s
Art in Public Places project. Oppen-
Hunter Museum Of American Art
Acquires Oppenheim Sculpture
heim’s sculpture won the public’s vote
by a large margin and the Hunter
Museum is pleased to own such an
important work by the artist.
“Arriving Home” encapsulates the circular
rhythms of traveling. Both departure
and arrival are crystallized in this
metallic spiral made of steel and acrylic.
The curators thought this sculpture representing
travel would fittingly refer-
Dennis Oppenheim, “Arriving Home,” 2007, steel, Lexan, perforated metal, rainbow
acrylic, 12 feet high by 12 feet wide by 5 feet deep.
ence its new location, Miller Plaza,
which serves as a popular spot between
home and work for many Chattanoogans
— be it during a lunch hour
or summer’s Nightfall Concert series.
The plaza is located on the corner along
the city’s busiest thoroughfares, Market
Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Dennis Oppenheim (b 1938, Electric
City, Wash.) has delved into many artistic
movements during his 50-year
career, including conceptual art, earth
art and performance art. These varied
interests have seeped into the large-scale
sculptures the artist has been constructing
since the 1990s. His public sculptures
often incorporate architectural
structures and reference one’s tether to
home and family, as seen in such works
as “Engagement,” a giant solitaire ring
topped with a dwelling instead of a diamond.
“Rising and Setting Neighborhood”
references the daily commute of
most Americans by depicting the light
and shadow cast across a row of houses
between sunrise and sunset. Coated in
primary colors and frequently infused
with electric lights, Oppenheim’s sculptures
are part fun house, part subversive
allusion to human relationships and
societal constructs.
RoGallery is one of the representatives
for Dennis Oppenheim and holds many
of his graphics within its collection. The
gallery is located in Long Island City,
N.Y., and has important holdings of
many modern and contemporary artworks
including, countless paintings,
prints, photographs and sculpture, and
also represents the Picasso estate collec-
Granville Perkins (1830–1895) Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, signed Granville Perkins and dated 1880, lower left, oil on canvas, 12 20 in.
Dennis Oppenheim, “Ghost Trip,”
1978, lithograph, signed and numbered
in pencil, edition of 100, paper
size 39 by 27 inches.
tion of lithographs from Marina Picasso.
The gallery’s website, www.rogallery.com,
features more than 5,000 artists.
The gallery is always interested in
acquiring new artworks from estates or
other collections. This fall, the gallery
will launch a new online auction platform
featuring a new, fast and simple
method for buying art online.
For more information, call 718-937-
0901 or email art@rogallery.com.
Barnegat Bay, New Jersey
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