George Rickey

George Warren Rickey was an American kinetic sculptor.

Rickey was born on June 6, 1907 in South Bend, Indiana. At a 1985 retrospective show, he later recalled that as a very small child, he was fascinated by the window latches in his home. These latches, which can be found in many historic South Bend homes, operate conically at counterintuitive angles that are oblique to the apparent design of the otherwise rectilinear form of the latch. One expects the latch to open by pulling, but its a conical crank, you see. This conical, oblique design shows up in many of George Rickeys works, where the axes of motion give unexpected movement to the rectilinear forms of his work.

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