April 9, 2015 - Changing Form Again

"Changing Form", a sculpture by Doris Chase installed at Seattle's Kerry Park, perfectly captures the city skyline.  Here "Changing Form" framed the efforts of the low clouds from Elliott Bay to dim the skies for the city.  Their efforts were ultimately futile, as the sun prevailed!

The sculpture's top section was originally designed to rotate and frame the skyline in a more dynamic manner.  At this overlook it hasn't been needed.

May 1, 2009 - Changing Form as Frame

(A slight departure from previous blog posts.  This was pulled from the vault.)

The Seattle skyline, including Mt. Rainier, is framed in Doris Chase's "Changing Form", located at Kerry Park.  One of her earliest commissioned sculptures, the 15 foot high steel sculpture  was installed in 1971 and represents an evolution in her artwork.  She began painting on flat mediums, and moved to painting on larger and larger laminated wood nesting hoops and arches that people could walk through. 

March 5, 2011 - Moon Gates

Doris Totten Chase's 17 foot high "Moon Gates" is a bronze sculpture installed at the base of Seattle's Space Needle in 1999.  Doris Chase (1923-2008) was a Seattle native whose work in art began with painting and sculpture.  In the early 1970s she was a pioneer in the area of video art.  Ms. Chase's sculpture "Changing Form", was installed at Kerry Park on Queen Anne Hill in 1971. (See December 6, 2010 - "Needle Topper" for a view of Kerry Park and May 1, 2009 - "Changing Form as Frame" for the lines of that sculpture.)