Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 13

Bruce R. MacDonald
Moonlight

2022

$19,200
$24,00020% Off
£14,750.65
£18,438.3120% Off
€16,948.33
€21,185.4120% Off
CA$27,007.18
CA$33,758.9720% Off
A$30,341.35
A$37,926.6920% Off
CHF 15,853.40
CHF 19,816.7620% Off
MX$370,330.42
MX$462,913.0320% Off
NOK 201,291.93
NOK 251,614.9120% Off
SEK 189,473.95
SEK 236,842.4320% Off
DKK 126,474.73
DKK 158,093.4120% Off

About the Item

The art on the wall is not the piece of metal. The art is the way your eyes read the space created by the light reflecting off the surface. These panels have effects that are dramatic and immediately apparent and another level of perception that is only apparent with prolonged study. Letting one’s eyes relax and simply gazing will yield bits of reflected light that curve away and behind other objects, swirls and shimmering lines that lift into the space in front of the surface. Aside from the dimensionality, these pieces can function like a diffraction grating—if one looks closely all hues of the spectrum can be seen on the surface. These are light sculpture, objects that change exactly the way sculpture changes as one walks around it. They are not meant to represent things. They are themselves and invite you to get to know and understand them. On the outside Bruce R. MacDonald’s work seems like frozen video displays lifted from the walls of some 22nd Century environment; while on the inside they have the detailing and complexity of sun sparkles on the ocean, the diversity of the forest floor, maps of some celestial event or pure abstractions of a particular moment of organic consciousness. The artist graduated with a degree from Haverford College in 1981 and decided to create physical objects. “After college I was tired of only having sheets of paper to show for long days of work. With metal, after forty hours, I had something tangible, something that would survive, and something that might be here forever.” The Museum of Science and Industry in London featured his helix CD rack on the cover of their catalog. His Teaship, a teapot that looks like a spaceship, has won design awards and Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy has displayed one in his office for many years. Bruce was also commissioned to make a helix sculpture to celebrate the completion of the Human Genome Project and to make the lifetime achievement award for the Manchester Film Festival.
  • Creator:
    Bruce R. MacDonald (1958, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2022
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 56 in (142.24 cm)Width: 90 in (228.6 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Brooklyn, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1664211455012

More From This Seller

View All
Departure
By Larry Scaturro
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Walnut abstract inspired by nature
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Departure
$3,360 Sale Price
20% Off
Rises In The East
By M. Clark
Located in Brooklyn, NY
- Gold foil on sintra panel - This piece is exceptionally textural and reflective - The three-quarter-inch edge is foiled in gold (See photo) - M. Clark uses an innovative technique ...
Category

2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Foil

Rises In The East
$4,560 Sale Price
20% Off
Khufu
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The art on the wall is not the piece of metal. The art is the way your eyes read the space created by the light reflecting off the surface. These panels have effects that are dramati...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Khufu
$6,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Block Chain
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The art on the wall is not the piece of metal. The art is the way your eyes read the space created by the light reflecting off the surface. These panels have effects that are dramati...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Block Chain
$3,520 Sale Price
20% Off
Roots²
By M. Clark
Located in Brooklyn, NY
- This piece is exceptionally textural and reflective. - The composition wraps around the edges of Roots² making it visually intriguing from all angles (see photo). - M. Clark uses a...
Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Gold Leaf

Roots²
$5,120 Sale Price
20% Off
Intersignificance
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Stephen Lee is a Korean-American sculptor based in Dallas, Texas. Born in South Korea and immigrating to the United States as a teenager, Lee draws from a dual set of cultural influe...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Concrete, Steel

You May Also Like

Out West 1
By Richard Taylor
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Out West 1 is from a series of wall sculptures inspired by the open spaces of sky and landscape of the American West. The landscape is abstracted to painterly and geometric forms and...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Clair de lune déchirant
By Eric Lamontagne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Lamontagne has an interest for the conflicting relationship that exists between the end of the landscape and its contemplation, as well as for the so-called death of painting. The pa...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Xaniis (Original)
Located in Toronto, ON
29" x 29" framed Original Acrylic on Panel Hand Signed by Jaye Ouellette
Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

AP 10
Located in Vancouver, CA
Bryan Ryley: Rigorous Inquiry at the Intersection of Material and Structure Bryan Ryley, a significant figure in contemporary Canadian abstraction, operates from his studio in Verno...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

MICHAEL RAEDECKER Day at Night, 2023
Located in New York, NY
Laser printer pigment transfer, dispersion, acrylic, glitter, and thread on canvas. Each unique edition is accompanied by the new comprehensive monograph, Michael Raedecker, published by Phaidon Edition of 10 This work is signed, titled, numbered, dated by year on verso, and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Phaidon and Artspace are pleased to present day at night, a new series of ten unique embroidered prints on canvas by contemporary artist Michael Raedecker. Released on the occasion of Raedecker’s new comprehensive Phaidon survey, each limited edition includes a signed copy of the publication as well as a signed Certificate of Authenticity. Since the beginning of his career as a painter, Raedecker has incorporated embroidery into his works as a means of challenging the conventional hierarchy of fine art techniques. His new day at night editions include thread, paint, and glitter hand-applied throughout, making each piece a singular work of art. Raedecker’s practice as a whole is engaged with a process of re-contextualizing familiar ideas and spaces, asking the viewer to question held assumptions. Swimming pools are a recurring subject for Raedecker, who is fascinated by the ways in which paintings of pools...
Category

2010s British Prints

Materials

Paper

99-709
Located in Vancouver, CA
Ben McLeod (b. 1948, Aberdeen, Scotland) is a preeminent Canadian sculptor whose over five-decade practice is characterized by a profoundly self-propelled trajectory and the cultivat...
Category

1990s Abstract Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel