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Changing Faces, (sculpture). Artist:  D., Matta, sculptor. Title:  Changing Faces, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Double Profiles, (sculpture). Dates:  1974. Relocated ca. 1984. Medium:  Aluminum. Dimensions:  Approx. 12 ft. x 4 ft. x 10 in. Description:  An abstract sculpture of polished aluminum depicting on one side a silhouette of a nose and mouth and on the other side, the negative image of a nose and mouth. Subject:  Allegory -- Place -- Erie Allegory -- Time -- Past Allegory -- Time -- Future Figure -- Fragment -- Face Abstract -- Geometric Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Erie Sculpture Owner:  Administered by City of Erie, 626 State Street, Municipal Building, Room 309, Erie, Pennsylvania 16501 Located Louis J. Tullio Convention Center, 8th & French Streets, Erie, Pennsylvania Provenance:  Formerly located Erie Art Center, West Sixth Street, Erie, Pennsylvania until Nov. 1983. Formerly located Marine Bank, 9th & State Streets, Erie, Pennsylvania Remarks:  The sculpture was created in 1974 as part of the Erie Summer Festival of the Arts, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, and the Erie Flexlume Co., Inc. According to the artist, the sculpture was inspired by the Erie downtown redevelopment and symbolizes the past and future faces of Erie, Pennsylvania. It was exhibited at the Marine Bank's main office in Erie in 1974 while the Erie Transitway Mall was being completed. It was then loaned to the Erie Art Center until the Center moved and became the Erie Art Museum in 1983. In 1984, it was installed at its current site. IAS files contain the artist's flyer for the sculpture which includes the artist's statement. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania survey, 1995. Illustration:  Image on file. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS PA001009   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture PA001009 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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