David Reekie
British, b. 1947
The Lookouts, 1987
Lost-wax and pâte de verre sculpture, wood, bamboo
Although glass is artist David Reekie’s preferred material, he steers away from the characteristics traditionally associated with it; its delicacy, translucency, and smoothness. Instead, Reekie manipulates glass to produce surreal, narrative works of art. Initially mapped out in drawings, Reekie does this to explore how humanity copes with imagined spaces and situations.
As the title makes clear, the three figures in The Lookouts are watching for someone or something. However, it also raises a few questions: who are they looking out for? Are they waiting with eager anticipation or with a sense of dread?
Gift of Lisa Jan Rose and Kenneth L. Koenig, MD and Sara Jane Rose and Jay Shanker, 2021
Visual Descriptions: This is a glass sculpture of a figure standing on the back of a dinosaur’s skeleton, roughly a foot tall and almost two feet long. The figure is missing their arms and head and has golden wings extending out from their back. The figure’s body is midnight blue and wears a yellow tunic. The white, lustrous skeleton under the figure is long, with four legs and a tail. In the dinosaur’s mouth is a yellow rope, extending out from the sides of its mouth and up on either side of the figure’s wings.
