Betty Gold Untitled Sculpture

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.