Nancy Graves

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Nancy Graves
Sequi
1985

Project Area: Bunker Hill
Project: Crocker Court (Wells Fargo Center)
Project Location: 333 S. Grand Avenue
Project Type: Developer

Description:

Located in the open air plaza of the Wells Fargo Center, "Sequi" is a sculpture composed of a variety of organic forms such as a banana blossom, a deerfoot fern, a lobster claw, and vines. The bronze sculpture is painted with contrasting colors that grace opposite sides of the sculpture. The 13'h x 18'8"w x 8'd sculpture touches the ground at four points and is built to allow viewers to walk between its limbs.

Artist Profile

Nancy Graves (1939-1995) developed her personal aesthetic in Abstract Expressionism while attending the Yale University School of Art. She continuously infused her work with new and innovative ideas by transposing concepts from one medium to another. In the 1970s, visual representations of natural phenomena, like the weather and moon maps made by NASA, inspired her paintings, drawings, and prints. She later made outlines from these pieces to create three-dimensional colorful abstract public sculptures in the 1980s. The artist’s works are in the collections of prominent museums such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Corcoran Gallery of Art; Ludwig Forum for International Art, Germany; and Marimura Art Museum, Japan.