artist working in neon art & neon sculpture EHLENBERGER Standard 612302

16” x 14” x 8” aluminum, marble, glass lens, neon

A very early sculpture (the sixth sculpture Ehlenberger ever made), this work incorporates found objects from the artist's frequent forays into the scrap metal yards of New Orleans. It was in these industrial graveyards that Ehlenberger found many of the sculptural elements that characterize his early work. "Standard 612302" consists of multiple independently found components serendipitously fitting together as if they were made for co-assembly. In the center of the glass lens is a focal convexity that magnifies a blue bubble blown into the otherwise all green neon tube creating the focal point (figuratively and literally!) of the sculpture.     home page