#ralph helmick

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Impulse by Ralph Helmick is hands-down my favorite piece of airport art. The image is from his website (https://helmicksculpture.com), but it doesn't do it justice. This is definitely something that needs to be experienced in person - Terminal A in the Philly Airport!

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Ralph Helmick and John Outterbridge: Heroic Heads Of The Robinsons (1997)

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http://www.helmicksculpture.com/arbor.html

So I just discovered this new artist I’ve fallen in love with all of his work. I saw his first sculpture “Impulse” in the Philly airport.

This sculpture is called “Arbor” by Ralph Helmick. I chose this sculpture because Ralph Helmick is one of my favorite artists. His installations are well thought out and he likes to take big concepts and show the small details that make them up. For example, I chose Arbor- this sculpture is made up of six hundred-ninety two time pieces that are set up above a computer hub at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. These time pieces include clocks that range in size, color, and age (some vintage) that are hung in a precise spot. When you look at it up front it's interesting and you don’t quite get the concept fully until you take a few steps back and see that the clocks form a bigger picture of the balance scales of justice or a “perceptual phenomenon known as an anamorphosis.”

I really appreciate this piece and Helmick's work because it’s very technical but also creative and new. In my work, I think more technically than creatively, and I have actively been working on how to connect my technical skills with my creativity and how to expand more of my concepts. This installation to me is kind of whimsical in a way. I think this installation is important because of its technical work behind the concept. For someone to have to measure the precise location of where each clock should be hung to create the judicial balance scales out of them, it's astonishing. Also to find all six hundred and some clocks that are the correct size to create the shape. I appreciate how long this piece must have taken to collect all of the timepieces in it, measure the locations, and hang all of them.

The concept of this piece sticks with me because time is a man-made concept that can be seen as constant and elastic.“Arbor is an expression of the interplay between temporal and the judicial, grounded in an individual’s experience of time and space.” This installation is in a location (John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan) that accurately depicts its concept and beauty. The balance scales of justice correlate with the curriculum taught at the college.

This piece and all other works by Ralph Helmick are beautiful and intricate, with well thought out concepts that are executed perfectly.

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Signal di Ralph Helmick acciaio, 2009, Biomedical Engineering Building, Rutgers University, New Jersey - USA

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Chief Leatherlips Monument by Shutterfool This massive monument was commissioned by the Dublin Arts Council. Boston artist Ralph Helmick created and then finished it in 1990 using native limestone slabs. Interestingly, visitors can actually go inside the sculpture and stand on the head of the chief. CJWHO:  facebook  |  twitter  |  pinterest  |  subscribe