Betty Gold Untitled Sculpture

Betty Gold, 1979

This redwood and steel sculpture is located in the Central courtyard in the Visual Arts Center This untitled redwood and steel sculpture represents a seminal work in the oeuvre of this Los Angles based artist. As part of a series, Gold laminated the wood and then reinforced the linear, muscular structure of the sculpture with steel plates bolted directly into the wood.

Betty Gold (1935- ) attended the University of Texas and now maintains a studio in Venice, California. Her creative work includes sculpture, painting, tapestry, photography, and jewelry. The artist usually develops a number of ideas around a common theme, building a maquette for each of the series, and then has the full-scale sculpture fabricated at a local steel mill.