Questionable Architecture: Terry Rathje in Collaboration with Steve Banks and Monica Correia

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Questionable Architecture: Terry Rathje in Collaboration with Steve Banks and Monica Correia
Quad Cities artist Terry Rathje will create a sculptural installation on the fourth floor of the Figge Art Museum exploring the interaction of function and form in structures designed digitally and built by hand. Inspired by stupas, pagodas, ziggurats and roadside shrines, these structures are a mix of sculpture and architecture whose design may have a visual impact completely unrelated to their use. The show will include movable structures made of repurposed materials as well as a structure created onsite that visitors will be invited to enter. “After several years of building structures such as this, which reference vernacular architecture, it was natural to imagine what many of them together might look like as a village, one that might pick up and move to a new location if conditions warranted.” The installation will be designed and constructed with the collaboration of designer Monica Correia and artist Steve Banks.

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This exhibition will be on view June 1-August 25, 2013.
Terry Rathje, The Way, 2010, plywood, cedar, steel, aluminum, tin.
Terry Rathje and Steve Banks, Vestibule, 2013, wood, stain and screws.