Ocean Center - Kenneth vonRoenn Jr.

Fluidity, 2009
Aluminum and dichroic acrylic

Kenneth vonRoenn Jr.
Louisville, Ky.

Kenneth vonRoenn Jr. has completed more than 750 commission projects throughout the United States and overseas, including one of the world’s largest glass sculptures, which crowns the top of First Union Bank in Charlotte, N.C. His work has been published in numerous books and design magazines. In 2003, Dialogue Magazine named him one of the 25 most influential people in the arts in the Midwest.

“As an architect, I am primarily concerned with the sympathetic relationship between my works of art and the buildings of which they are but a part and parcel. Harmonious integration is achieved when the work expresses a visual dialogue with the architecture by responding to the particular character and specific needs of a building. As an artist and craftsman, I emphasize the poetic expression of glass or acrylic as it is animated with light by enhancing and employing its inherent and intrinsic characteristics and qualities. In developing ‘Fluidity’ and the ‘Ordered Turbulence’ pieces, I was primarily concerned with- ensuring that the composition involved the viewer mentally and visually in a manner appropriate to its context. I believe that if viewers are to fully understand a thematic concept, they should mentally construct their own meaning, and that my role as both artist and architect is to assist, encourage, inspire and direct that effort.” – Kenneth vonRoenn Jr.

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Ordered Turbulence, 2009