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Harry Powers

Harry Powers — 1086935295

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Description: This bronze work, 50" H, was made during repeated listenings to Wagner's "Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla", hence its title "Rheingold". Its surface is gold leaf and acrylic paint, primarily pearlescent, evoking the elegant feeling of a god's finery.

Harry Powers

Harry Powers — 1086803019

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Description: This bronze work, 8' H, refers to Galileo's treatise that the planets revolve around the sun Drawings from his notebooks are in relief on the surface and orbs above are gold leafed. It is in the collection of the San Jose Museum of Art.

Harry Powers

Harry Powers — 1086803018

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Description: This bronze work, 53"H, was intended as a criticism of current intellectual approaches to creating sculpture which rely on logic rather than trusting intuition. It takes visual elements of one of histories most rigid logical societies - Roman - and liquifies them so they flow and meld together and seem about to dissolve. Hence the title "Collapse of Logic".

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Harry Powers — 1086803018

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Description: This bronze work, 27" H, abstracts a typical Australian termite hill shape, bands it like a fortified entrance and uses an approximation of a ceremonial flag. It refers to the Aboriginal dreamworld.

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Harry Powers — 1086800887

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Description: The lore and legend of the Southern Cross which for untold centuries has been a guide for people moving over the South Pacific water was the inspiration for this cast aluminum work, 50"H. It uses a flowing painterly anodizing technique for its color.

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Harry Powers — 1086800887

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Description: This bronze relief, 17" W, abstracts layered laminated aspects and orbital patterns of celestial bodies. The projecting circular shape is gold leafed.

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Harry Powers — 1086800886

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Description: Primal people, here Australian, often sense spirits emanating from waterholes and earth fissures which then become legendary and sacred. This sculpture is a visual equivalent of that concept.

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Harry Powers — 1086800885

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Description: This bronze relief, 25" H, was inspired by the Anazazi site at Chaco Canyon with its brown sand stone structures and desert surround. There, as in many other primal sites, a spiral is a constantly reocurring image. It is part of a series of works referential to many ways of seeing the earth and landscape - from radar images, thermal imaging, spiritual, and satellite photography to microwave scans.

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Harry Powers — 1086798287

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Description: This bronze work, 53" H, is an abstracted visual equivalent of a Galileo essay in which he confirms Copernicus' theory that planets revolve around the sun. The lower verticle part has a relief of many Galileo drawings. The ball shape has a gold leaf serface.

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Harry Powers — 1086798287

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Description: This bronze work, 32" H on walnut base, is referential to Galileo's many mathematical and geometric studies and drawings. some of his drawings are illustrated in relief on the lower part. The upper 3 dimensional drawings are patined with silver nitrate.

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Harry Powers — 1086798287

Posted by: Harry Powers

Description: This bronze work, 5' H, is one of a series of prints, sculpture, and paintings which have some Renaissance component but then also refer to the cosmos as we are able to see it today. One wonders if Galileo, whose primitive telescope saw the moons of Saturn as only black dots, had an inkling of the incredible beauty that existed beyond his reach. Hence the series title "Beyond Galileo xxxxx". The lower book-like portion is covered with his drawings in relief.and the uppermost part is covered with silver foil stained with acrylic washes. The sculpture is bolted to a polished stone base.

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Harry Powers — 1086798287

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Description: This bronze relief wall piece, 35" W, uses Renaissance symbolism and an accurate 3 dimensional rendering of Galileo's drawing of Orion. The projecting star shapes are gold leafed.

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Harry Powers — 1086795136

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Description: This work is in a courtyard of a branch of the San Jose Public Library used for story telling. The children relate it to whatever the current story is so sometimes it is seen as city lights,or a flight of birds, a group of people, or stars - hence its title "Fluent Galaxy". It is made of aluminum and enameled bronze.

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Harry Powers — 1086795135

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Description: According to Vasari, Uccello's wife would complain that he dreamed and talked in his sleep about perspective. This 12' work of bronze and stainless steel takes an image of a Renaissance pilaster, warps it and floats above it an academic 2 point dreamlike perspective structure. During its construction a close friend died, Richard Tansey - principle author of the last 10 editions of "Gardner's Art Through The Ages". His intials were placed in relief and the sculpture is dedicated to his memory. Designed to stand in a courtyard it is in the collection of the San Jose Museum of Art.

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Harry Powers — 1086795135

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Description: This 8' steel work, on 3' concrete base, was commissioned for Park Center Plaza in San Jose, CA. It is abstracted from shapes of eroded castles The steel surface is actively ground and incised and covered with translucent red lacquer which produces a rich glimmer as sun and viewer move. It adds a warm welcoming quality to its concrete architectural surround and is titled "Salute"

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Harry Powers — 1086784455

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Description: This concrete work was designed during a summer in Florence. it was commissioned by Bank of the West for their Santa Cruz, CA branch. Vasari tells how Renaissance bankers and merchants commissioned so many works. It seemed fitting to allude to Vasari in this work which stands in front of a bank. So the design is like a manuscript fragment with a rough diagram of the plan of Florence incised on the surface. It was cast in place and is heavily steel and fibre reinforced and stood uncracked during the Loma Prieta earthquake while buildings across the street collapsed. The sculpture is carefully designed and positioned to have a fluid ever changing shadow pattern as the sun moves. The collaboration with the architects, Hawley & Stowers AIA was rich and articulate.

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Harry Powers — 1086784454

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Description: This 8' bronze piece stands in the lobby of the City Council Building in Dublin, Ireland and was inspired by the first and last lines of "Finnegan's Wake". It was a gift from the City of San Jose, CA to the City of Dublin. On one side is an image of the River Liffey as it flows through Dublin and on the other an image of the Guadalupe river as it flows through San Jose.