Tom Fruin’s sculptures create a captivating glow at City Hall…
Duo admires “Beacon,” “Duty Calls” and “Rubik’s Cube House” by Tom Fruin at Laguna Beach City Hall, 505 Forest Ave. The pieces will be on view from February 20-April 30. Look for Arts Writer Jill Hecht’s story on artist Tom Fruin and his work in Friday’s edition of Stu News Laguna.
Photo: @lagunabeachphotographer@tomfruin@lbartsalliance
Here’s me napping in the gaudy, dazzling glow of my work! Thanks @nytimes Craig Kellogg and Ashok Sinha !!
“There were no skylights at the Brooklyn workshop where Tom Fruin, an artist, built a colorful “skylight” sculpture from transparent acrylic scraps. It was a lark, unfinished and never intended as watertight.
Short walls supported the hip roof, like a kneecapped greenhouse resting on the floor.
The 27-square-foot plastic patchwork for the piece recalled his luminous Watertower, a bold 2012 sculpture of colored acrylic and steel in the shape of a water tank. Mr. Fruin installed it in on a Dumbo rooftop, then placed similar tanks in other locations, from South Korea to New Orleans.
He moved into a Gowanus studio in 2019 and hoisted the old skylight sculpture up off the floor. It hangs under a slightly larger real skylight, above the studio mezzanine.
“A lucky fit,” he said. Sunbeams project through the colored plastic, splashing onto the low mezzanine sofas where the artist naps in the gaudy, dazzling glow of his work.”
Village Trio by Tom Fruin.
Built for daylight. Meant for the window—a quiet magnet for the beauty of stained-glass.
Hanging sculpture | 36 Ă— 32 in
Mixed media, acrylic, metal
On view at Avant Gallery | Miami Beach
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