kites – Page 2 – Andrew Reach

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*Twenty Kites, 2020*
*uv cured ink on cut-out composite aluminum panel* mounted on wall mounted spindle
Panel can be turned both clockwise and counter clockwise.
*dimensions variable (62″ x 62″ overall), edition of 3*
This is position number 1. With each 45 degree rotation, the location of the colored kites changes as well as the orientation of the kites. Each position is its own composition.

Twenty Kites is an arrangement of the harmonics between the exponentially diminishing grouping of 4 sets of 5 kites meeting at a cross shape central connector.

Detail showing wall mounted spindle and attachment to artwork

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The new patient tower on the Summa Health System — Akron Campus designed by Hasenstab Architects features 90 unique pieces of art by 53 artists, all with Northeast Ohio ties. I’m honored that my work “Ninety One Kites” is part of this collection.
From the Summa website:
“Summa Health promotes a healthcare environment that surrounds and connects patients, visitors and staff with the healing powers of the arts.”
Click here to learn more.

I’m honored to be a part of Summa Health’s new Healing Arts Collection for the new Patient Tower at the Akron campus. Special thank you to Meg Harris Stanton, curator – Summa Health Healing Arts Leadership Council, for selecting my work “Ninety One Kites” where it has been placed on the fifth floor across from the nurses station. I like it’s location. Not only do patients and visitors benefit from the arts in healthcare, staff especially does so. Also, a special thank you to Christine Havice, Chair, Summa Health Healing Arts Leadership Council. With her background as an arts educator in art history, journalist, curator and consultant, she researched and wrote about each artist, artwork and the artists process. With dedicated web page’s for each, it’s a great resource to view and study the collection. Below is excerpt of what she wrote on my page:

After viewing this print, you may also find his reflections helpful in negotiating the visual arts world of today, where both digital and the older “analogue” techniques co-exist and often, as here and in certain other works of art in the Summa Collection, interpenetrate in new and exciting ways.

Click here to learn more about the artwork “Ninety One Kites”.