Sunday, August 22, 1999
Sculpture finds home at Brighton Place
BY OWEN FINDSEN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Every day or so, sculptor Patricia Renick can be seen in her Shaker straw hat and overalls, picking up paper around the big stainless steel sculpture she created for Central Parkway at Brighton Place.
“I see more people I know,” says Ms. Renick, a professor of fine arts at the University of Cincinnati. “I've seen former students I had 30 years ago. And people stop in their cars to say something about the sculpture. Of course, I only hear the nice things people have to say about it.”
Standing 12 feet high and 8 feet wide, the shiny steel sculpture is Cincinnati's newest public artwork. It marks a new entry into Brighton and the upper West End from Central Parkway.
“The city was making a cut-through from Central Parkway, and the city engineers asked me if I could design something for the traffic island. I also picked the name Brighton Place for the cut-through.”
Titled “30 Module Sphere No. 1,” the sculpture is made of 30 folded stainless steel plates. It was created in 1998 and spent most of the past year at Pier Walk '98 in Chicago, the world's largest sculpture exhibition. It was installed at Brighton earlier this month.
“Everything to do with the work was done right here in the neighborhood,” Ms. Renick says. Her studio is a few hundred yards away on Colerain Avenue. The sculpture was built at Young and Bertke, metal fabricators on Patterson Avenue, and it was financed by the Otto Budig Family Foundation. The Budig family owns the George E. Fern Co. on Western Avenue.
The sculpture requires no maintenance, but there is always litter to be picked up around it.
“I don't mind. That way I get to talk to a lot of people about the work,” Ms. Renick says. “People in the neighborhood stop to say, "It's about time we got something like this.' ”
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