The Public Art League is proud to announce the installation of
Sunder Planet, a sculpture by Stephen Luecking of Chicago. The sculpture was installed in the planter bed in the Orpheum Children’s Museum's parking plaza in downtown Champaign. Sunder Planet represents the 33rd sculpture the Public Art League has brought to the community, and its installation is
possible thanks to the generous support of The Robeson Family Benefit Fund.
Stephen Luecking, the sculptor behind Sunder Planet, is a
Professor at DePaul University’s School of Computing and spent 25 years in
DePaul’s Department of Art and Art History.
During that time, he participated in nearly 150 exhibits, 20 of which
were one-person shows. He is the author
of several articles, essays, and reviews which have appeared in national and
international art journals, as well as the book Principles of Three-Dimensional
Design: Objects, Space and Meaning.
With Sunder Planet, Luecking demonstrates “mathematical
art”. Instead of using the elegant
symmetries of spherical polyhedrons to create a closed surface, he has made
simple adjustments in the proportions of the polyhedrons to create a piece that
breaks the symmetry and creates interacting masses and voids. Yet at the same time, the piece retains much
of the symmetry’s original appeal.
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