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Sculpture by late artist Mac Hornecker installed at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock

Ajani Oyindamola — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:49:15 +0000

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is now home to a sculpture by late artist.�� Marie Hornecker of Arkadelphia donated the sculpture to ��Vlog��ý Little Rock last year to honor her husband’s creative efforts. Mac Hornecker, who passed away in 2011, created “El ��ñ��” in 1998. It is a non-objective sculpture that was an early piece in his waved linear steel and concrete stone work. “El ��ñ�� was built in 1998 at a time when our oldest daughter was in college at OU in Oklahoma majoring in meteorology and also had a position at NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Severe Storm Center and as a storm chaser,” Marie Hornecker said. “It gave Mac a new awareness of the weather and patterns. The land and natural elements were always the inspirations of Mac’s work.” Marie Hornecker and ��Vlog��ý Little Rock installation crew members Michael Warrick, Kerrick Hartman, John Bruhl, Ricky Sikes, and Ruijie Zheng dismantled, packed, and reinstalled the sculpture at the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock campus on Oct. 19. Marie Hornecker and Warrick gave the sculpture a fresh coat of paint on Oct. 20 to give it a “final finish,” according to Warrick, a longtime friend of the Horneckers. The sculpture now stands east of the Donaghey Student Center near Coleman Creek. “Thanks for everyone at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock for placing ‘El ��ñ��’ on your campus,” Marie Hornecker said. “It is a wonderful setting, and I know Mac would have been very pleased. I also want to thank Michael Warrick and those in the art faculty that helped with the instillation and ��Vlog��ý Little Rock for accepting this piece and putting it in a beautiful location.”

Mac Hornecker, who passed away in 2011, created “El ��ñ��” in 1998. It is a non-objective sculpture that was an early piece in his waved linear steel and concrete stone work.

Mac Hornecker was best known for sculptures of environmental scale built from a variety of materials. He designed for a particular site, which determines scale and material. Images within his work deal with land and manmade forms. He was interested in the topography, rocks, trees, architecture, and anything interesting about the environment of the site. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1968 and a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from the University of Oklahoma in 1970. He received his first commission from the Oklahoma City Arts Council in 1971 for a 12-ton cast concrete sculpture. His work was represented in more than 30 public collections, 25 solo shows, 50 group shows, 25 invitationals, and 30 competitive shows. He was a professor of sculpture for 40 years and served as a guest artist and conducted workshops at many colleges, universities, and art centers. In the upper right photo, members of the installation crew install Mac Hornecker’s sculpture on campus. Pictured (L to R) include John Bruhl, Kerrick Hartman, Marie Hornecker, and Michael Warrick.

Windgate Center of Art and Design installs first artwork in outdoor sculpture garden

Janea Snyder — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 19:28:24 +0000

Visitors to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Windgate Center of Art and Design will now see art before they even enter the doors. A 7-foot-tall wooden sculpture by Arkansas artist was installed this week on the center’s plaza entry as the first in the center’s Sculpture Garden. On Thursday, Oct. 4, more than 100 patrons gathered at the Windgate Center to celebrate the new artwork and to honor Horn, whose longtime support for art and education was instrumental in the creation of the Windgate Center of Art and Design. Horn’s sculpture, purchased by the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Foundation, is a redwood and dye creation titled “Hypothetical Destination” – a phrase borrowed from lyrics in the James Taylor song “Walking Man.” (Horn is a huge James Taylor fan.) “Moving in silent desperation Keeping an eye on the holy land A hypothetical destination Say, who is this walking man?” The sculpture is one of the works from Horn’s Slipping Stone Series, a recurring theme throughout her career. “It is a wonderful inaugural piece for our forthcoming sculpture garden in this plaza,” said Tom Clifton, chair of the Department of Art and Design. “The sense of motion created by the slipping stones is aligned perfectly to the forward momentum of the Windgate Center of Art and Design, and it’s an honor for all of us fortunate enough to be part of this time in the history of the department.” Horn, who has been wood sculptor for more than 30 years, is known nationally for her sculptures and paintings. Her work has been exhibited and included in public collections across the country, including at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. A collection of Horn’s sculptures is also on display inside the Brad Cushman Gallery through the weekend. In the top right photo, party guests toast sculptor Robyn Horn during a reception celebrating Horn’s work and the installation of a new art piece in front of ��Vlog��ý Little Rock’s Windgate Center of Art and Design. Above right: “Hypothetical Destination,” a wood sculpture by Robyn Horn, has been installed outside the Windgate Center of Art and Design.��Photos by Benjamin Krain

��Vlog��ý Little Rock to host exhibit on Michael Warrick’s Sister City sculpture

Ajani Oyindamola — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 13:28:14 +0000

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will host an exhibit detailing the creation of a sculpture built to commemorate the 25-year partnership and friendship between the sister cities of Little Rock and Hanam City, South Korea.�� The exhibit, “Creating Youth,” will be on display from Oct. 11 to Nov. 10 in the Maners/Pappas Gallery in the ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Fine Arts Building. A reception for the exhibit, which is free and open to the public, will be held from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14. Michael Warrick, professor of sculpture at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock, created a sculpture entitled, “Youth,” during 2016 and 2017. Little Rock officials recently sent the sculpture to South Korea. “Youth” will be dedicated in December and stand in Hanam’s Sister City Park, which will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Sister City partnership that began in 1992. The sculpture is a 7-foot figurative female sculpture cast in bronze and composed of vines, leaves, and a small bird, Warrick said. The figure has a traditional green finish, while the small bird is coated with 23.75 karat gold leaf. The “Creating Youth” exhibit is meant to capture the “complexity and energy that goes into the idea of creating the sculpture,” Warrick said. The exhibit will feature smaller bronze sculptures of “Youth,” early sketches, 3-D digital renderings, test castings, failures, and a full-scale casting of the final sculpture. The ��Vlog��ý Little Rock Art Gallery is located in the Fine Arts Building. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, and 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. For more information, contact Art Gallery Director Brad Cushman at becushman@ualr.edu or 501.569.8977.

- University News Archive - ����Vlog��ý Little Rock

Sculpture by late artist Mac Hornecker installed at ����Vlog��ý Little Rock

Windgate Center of Art and Design installs first artwork in outdoor sculpture garden

����Vlog��ý Little Rock to host exhibit on Michael Warrick’s Sister City sculpture

- University News Archive - ��Vlog��ý Little Rock

Sculpture by late artist Mac Hornecker installed at ��Vlog��ý Little Rock

��Vlog��ý Little Rock to host exhibit on Michael Warrick’s Sister City sculpture