George Rickey

Zabriskie Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Zurich, Gimpel & Hannover Galerie and Andre Emmerich Galerie, George Rickey: Mobile Skulpturen, April - June 1981
Glasgow, Scottish Sculpture Trust, George Rickey: Kinetic Sculpture on Clydeside, June - August 1982
Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, George Rickey, September - November 1982
Amsterdam, Galerie De Sluis, George Rickey, January - March 1983
Mannheim, Galerie Lauter, George Rickey, September - October 1983
Düsseldorf, Galerie Schoeller, George Rickey: Skulpturen, October 1983 - February 1984
New York, Zabriskie Gallery, George Rickey, October - November 1986, p. 8, illustrated (exhibition catalogue)

"Time is an undeniable component in all kinectic art: motion can occur only during a span of time. Rickey's works can gently heighten viewer's awareness of time actually passing and, in a marvelously indirect way, persuade them to recognize the beauty of pure abstraction... We observe the seemingly random movements and note that fluctuating air currents cause different actions. Some appear to defy logic and the laws of physics, even as they operate within those laws... With patience we discern some patterns, but also realize that they are not consistently predictable; patterns involve in an open-ended process." 

(Valerie Fletcher "George Rickey, Poetry in Motion," George Rickey, Kinectic Sculpture: A Retrospective, p. 26)