Reuben Heyday Margolin
{{short description|American sculptor}}
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Reuben Heyday Margolin is an American-born artist and sculptor known for his mechanically driven kinetic sculptures of wave-forms.{{cite news |title=Die "magische Welle" im Technorama |url=http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100001104/100574289/technorama_the_swiss_science_center |work=Presseportal |date=November 27, 2008 |accessdate=February 26, 2010 }} Some of the sculptures are hand-cranked and small scale, while others are large, installed in large high-ceiling spaces, suspended from the ceiling.{{cite news |title=Lively museum reveals the art of science |url=https://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/196957 |work=Toronto Star |date=March 31, 2007 |accessdate=February 26, 2010 | first=Peter | last=Calamai}} His art also includes drawings, portraiture, traditional sculpture, and rickshaws.{{cite news |title=East Bay Leonardo |url=http://sfist.com/2008/03/28/east_bay_leonar.php |work=SFist |date=March 28, 2008 |accessdate=February 26, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001194200/http://sfist.com/2008/03/28/east_bay_leonar.php |archivedate=October 1, 2011 }}
Education
He was educated at Berkeley High School, then at Harvard University, where he earned a BA in English. He later studied drawing in Florence, Italy and Monumental painting at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Russia.
Career
In Autumn of 2010, Margolin installed "Nebula", a kinetic art work with 4,500 amber crystals, in the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas.{{cite news|last=Robinson-Jacobs|first=Karen|title=Suspended Sculpture to be centerpiece of Hilton Anatole's Renovation|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/dallas/headlines/20100716-suspended-sculpture-to-be-centerpiece-of-hilton-anatole_s-renovation.ece|accessdate=2011-03-05|newspaper=Dallas Morning News|date=2010-07-16}} The piece has been described as "perhaps the most ambitious kinetic sculpture ever commissioned."{{cite news|last=Hansen|first=Evan|title=Insane Kinetic Sculpture Tests Limits of Math, Art, Man|url=https://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/10/video-sneak-peek-insane-kinetic-sculpture-tests-limits-of-math-art-man/|work=Wired.com|publisher=Conde Nast|accessdate=2011-03-05|date=October 8, 2010}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.reubenmargolin.com/ Official site]
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Category:21st-century American sculptors