GEORGE RICKEY | HORIZONTAL COLUMN OF TEN SQUARES

Zabriskie Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

"Time is an undeniable component in all kinectic art: motion can occur only during a span of time. Rickey's works can gently heighten viewer's awareness of time actually passing and, in a marvelously indirect way, persuade them to recognize the beauty of pure abstraction... We observe the seemingly random movements and note that fluctuating air currents cause different actions. Some appear to defy logic and the laws of physics, even as they operate within those laws... With patience we discern some patterns, but also realize that they are not consistently predictable; patterns evolve in an open-ended process." 

(Valerie Fletcher "George Rickey, Poetry in Motion," George Rickey, Kinetic Sculpture: A Retrospective, p. 26)