Property Trivia

Many customers and visitors to Regency Plaza are curious about the sculpture located in the lobby. People often wonder where it came from, who made it, and what material is it made from. Below is some information that will answer those questions.

The title of the piece is:
Balanced/Unbalanced Wedge S - Phase II

Artist, Fletcher Benton, created it in 1981. You can visit Mr. Benton’s website at: www.fletcherbenton.com

The Balanced/Unbalanced Series began in the 1980s. Benton made the Balanced/Unbalanced sculptures of various metals and colors: in varnished and painted steel, in shimmering silver stainless steel, and in a gloWing golden bronze.

Benton’s dynamic composition of brightly colored geometric circles, beams and cylinders balance precariously in a refreshingly whimsical manner. The artist, one of the pioneers of kinetic sculpture, is now exploring structural implications and the expressive potential of three-dimensional minimal sculpture. He began as a sign painter and this experience gave him a sense of order and discipline. The Balanced/Unbalanced works are his most powerful yet. Often architectonic in scale, their giant triangles, cubes, blocks, and other elements threaten to tip, slide or bounce off the work. If someone pulled one element out then the whole would come cascading down in pieces. It is welding, of course, that makes the construction of such gravitationally daring compositions possible. The result is an optically dynamic composition.

Benton has been given one-person shows in Belgium, Germany, Venezuela, Argentina, and Korea. Works by this artist are in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Miami University Sculpture Garden, The Milwaukee Art Center, New Orleans Museum of Art, Oakland Museum and Sculpture Garden, Whitney Museum of American Art, and other major museums, universities and corporations.

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