Lyman Whitaker

"The Twister Star Huge", a type of Whirligig.

Lyman Whitaker is an American sculptor working in southern Utah. Whitaker has been a working sculptor for more than 40 years and is known for his kinetic sculptures.

Early work

Whitaker's early work consisted of largely representational sculpture, varying from traditional bronzes to small mobiles to public fountains.

Recent work

Since the early 1980s, Whitaker has focused on kinetic art, creating "Wind Sculptures^tm"--- artworks driven by the wind. His constructs are organic in nature and dependent upon their natural surroundings to provide their movement. They are also intended to make the observers think about those surroundings and of their own relation to nature.

His compositions can vary from single, 5 foot (1.5 m) tall pieces to "Wind Forests^TM" consisting of groups of sculptures standing up to 27 foot (8.2 m) tall.^[1]

Whitaker's work appears in fine art galleries around the country. In addition, public and private installations exist throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia, including:

• Marcus Ashley Gallery

References

External links

• Official site
• Selected exhibitions
• "Residents enjoying new sculptures at Vlasis Park" St. Louis Today
• Worthington Gallery - Springdale Utah Since the beginning of Lyman’s kinetic art, Worthington Gallery has been the source for Lyman’s magical and enduring wind sculptures. We were Lyman’s first gallery to represent his wind sculptures, and now from his Southern Utah studio he creates a line of copper wind sculptures for which he is internationally known.
• Lyman Whitaker sculptures in Santa Fe, New Mexico