Duo, 1992
Polished aluminum and enamel
252" x 26" each

In December 2007, The Museum of Outdoor Arts acquired Lin Emery’s Duo sculpture series. Lin Emery says, "Duo was conceived as a counterpart to an urban environment -- an attempt to recapture the joy of nature in a cityscape. The petals, rimmed in red, are abstracted from remembered flowers while their giant scale can relate to the architectural masses that may surround them. The stalks are intended to appear to rise directly from the ground in the way a blade of grass sprouts from the earth. Wind currents activate the petals in a slow dance, evoking the movement of the natural world." The 23 feet tall aluminum sculptures will be installed in Englewood’s City Center, and will stand in memorial to Olga Wolosyn, the late Mayor of Englewood. The two large-scale pieces will enhance MOA’s collection of public sculpture, and contribute to their growing attention to kinetic art. The Emery addition will not only add to the stature of the collection, but also reinforce the importance of our civic leaders. Arthur Roger Gallery, which represents Emery in New Orleans says, "Lin Emery is an internationally recognized sculptor. Her kinetic sculptures produce constantly changing relationships through the ever-varying configuration of their parts as they interpret the lyrical beauty of the natural world. Lin Emery's forms are abstracted from nature and give visible form to the energies moving through nature." As each piece of the sculpture moves, it reminds the viewer of the temporal nature of life and the constant changes that interrupt and complicate, yet stimulate the world we live in.

b. 1960, Nyanga, Zimbabwe
Woman of Authority, 2005
Spring stone
4' x 15" x 13"
Samson Park, Greenwood Village
Agnes Nyanhango is considered one of the most important Zimbabwean sculptors. She is often inspired by the roles of women in traditional society.

b. 1957, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Water Spirit Taking Child, 2006
Spring stone
14" x 7" x 5"
MOA Galleries
Taylor Nkomo is a graphic artist who is also a skilled painter and printmaker. He deals with subject matter focused around rural life and the beauty of humanity.

Cup Series, 2004-2006
Porcelain, shelf, and hardware
1' X 9'4" x 7"
MOA Galleries
Tsehai Johnson says, "In my Implements and Cups series, I explore relationships between tools used in the kitchen, tools used for cleaning, tools used for childcare, and objects implicated in erotic pleasure. I am not interested in assigning the work a specific function or social agenda, but rather in exploring, on a more poetic level, my ambiguous feelings toward the expectations placed on women in the home." Born in Ethiopia, Tsehai Johnson received her BA from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, and MFA from University of Colorado, Boulder.

White Cream Goblet Form, 2006
Stoneware
1'
MOA Galleries
Ursula Morley Price states, "Most invariably, my work gives the impression that it is influenced by marine plant life. This is not so! It is the movement in my work that gives this feeling. I am concerned with movement in my ceramics and with the engineering of clay. I push it to its limits, build it to paper thickness, without using support of any kind when constructing my forms. I make my own matte glaze from oak and chestnut ash; my colors range from silver, off-whites, creams, and pinks, to speckled browns and grays." The London born artist participates in international solo and group exhibitions, and currently lives and works in Vaux Lavalette, France.

Pink + Green, 2005
Acrylic on wood panel
24" X 20"
MOA Galleries
Barbara Takenaga says, "My paintings are often seen as trippy cosmic explosions, obsessive pattern paintings, or cartoon-like scientific diagrams gone awry. For me, they are paintings about mortality, sometimes using visual clichés and sometimes a personal 're- visionism.' With a restricted, radiating composition and a repetitive process, the images range from still and cosmic to flailing and comic. I want the work to be alternately elegiac, evocative and occasionally funny, with visual buzz and sensation." Barbara Takenaga received her BFA and MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. The artist exhibits throughout the United States, and currently lives and works in New York and Massachusetts.