Double Gamut, (sculpture).

Double Gamut, (sculpture).

DePalma, Linda, sculptor.

Burchenal, Ellen, sculptor.

Daniel, Paul, 1950- , sculptor.

Thomas, George, architect.

Ayers Saint Gross, architectural firm.

New Arts Foundry, founder.

Double Gamut, (sculpture).

1991. Installed 1992.

Aluminum and patinaed bronze.

Approx. 11 ft. x 14 ft. x 3 ft. 6 in.

(On the chair:) THE NEW ARTS FOUNDRY, BALTIMORE MD unsigned Founder's mark appears.

A screen of illusionistic squares resembling a game board with a bronze "Baltimore" chair placed in the center. At the lower left hand corner of the game board is a shiny red ball. On the seat of the chair is a gargoyle's face. The screen is mounted on an exterior Franklin street wall of a parking garage. A second screen, mirroring the one on Franklin Street but without the chair and ball, is on the rear of the garage on North Alley.

Abstract -- Geometric

Object -- Furniture -- Chair

Object -- Toy -- Ball

Outdoor Sculpture -- Maryland -- Baltimore

Architectural component

Administered by City of Baltimore, Department of Public Works, Bureau of Transportation, 417 East Fayette Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202

Located Franklin Street Parking Garage, Entrance facade, between Charles & Cathedral Streets, Baltimore, Maryland 21201

The sculpture was commissioned through the City of Baltimore's One Percent for Art program and took three years to complete. The artists worked closely with George Thomas of Ayers Saint Gross, the project architect. Daniel and DePalma designed and fabricated the metal portions, with fabrication assistance from artist Ellen Burchenal. The New Arts Foundry fabricated the chair. Other local businesses involved with the sculpture's fabrication included: C-S Metals Inc., Ray Watson Company, ISPA Company, Baltimore Body Shop, M & W Towing, and Columbia Steel Erectors. According to Linda DePalma, the sculpture can be seen as a metaphor for the riddles we face, a kind of challenge to solve the puzzle or find a center, including the act of finding a parking space in a garage or remembering where a car is parked. IAS files contain a newsclipping from The Sun (Baltimore, MD), Jan. 19, 1992; and a press release from DePalma. The entire project took three years to complete.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Maryland, Baltimore survey, 1993.

The Sun (Baltimore, MD), Jan. 19, 1992.

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