Designbox Influences: Bob Rankin

This November, the first of the Designbox Influences series presents an exhibit saluting the influence of Bob Rankin featuring the work of many of his former students who have followed a career in the professional arts. Rankin’s former students Thomas DeVries, Rob Allen, Paul Friedrich, Lee A. Williamson, John O’Connor, Tim Kiernan, Jeff McFadyen, Huong Ngo and Casey Porn will …

Momentum

Matt McConnell’s “Momentum” collection studies motion, force, and time. He has integrated geometric arrays and transformations into forms that reflect elements in nature and the systems that impact those elements, using materials including steel, glass, acrylic, ice, and light. Matt periodically takes time outside of commissioned work at McConnell Studios to further artistic explorations, one facet of which is the …