GEORGE RICKEY | HORIZONTAL COLUMN OF TEN SQUARES

Zabriskie Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Zurich, Gimpel & Hannover Galerie and Andre Emmerich Galerie, George Rickey: Mobile Skulpturen, April - June 1981

Glasgow, Scottish Sculpture Trust, George Rickey: Kinetic Sculpture on Clydeside, June - August 1982

Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, George Rickey, September - November 1982

Amsterdam, Galerie De Sluis, George Rickey, January - March 1983

Mannheim, Galerie Lauter, George Rickey, September - October 1983

Düsseldorf, Galerie Schoeller, George Rickey: Skulpturen, October 1983 - February 1984

New York, Zabriskie Gallery, George Rickey, October - November 1986, p. 8, illustrated (exhibition catalogue)

"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)