"Stegowagenvolkssaurus" by Cincinnati-based sculptor
Patricia Renick, 1974.
In the 1970s, Cincinnati’s Patricia Renick was one of a generation of women sculptors who came into their own as wildly influential artists who broadened the possibilities of what sculpture and art could look like. Since Renick passed away in 2007, Laura Chapman — her longtime companion and executor of her estate — has begun to find places for some of the enormous and historically significant sculptures that Renick made in her lifetime.
The
Stegowagenvolkssaurus is a combination of
a stegosaurus and a Volkswagen Beetle, because who wouldn’t want to go to work
in a dinocar? The artist “meant the work as a comment on the parallels between the
coming obsolescence of fossil-fuel vehicles and the extinction of the
dinosaurs.”
"The 12 x 20 foot creature currently stands on display in the library
at Northern Kentucky University. When speaking about the work, Renick
said, “I wanted viewers to enter a space that resonated as a natural
history museum. I wanted them to feel as if they were seeing an unknown
but plausible species.”
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