Lingo

Object NameMural

Artist / Maker Marc Moulton ((American, b. 1960))

Date2000

OriginUSA

MediumAluminum, plastic and neon light tubes

Dimensions112 x 24 in. (284.5 x 61 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Art in State Buildings Program for the Communications Building, in the Art on Campus Collection, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

Object numberU2000.47

Status

On view

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Label TextLingo uses symbols and light to communicate. Similar to Egyptian hieroglyphics, these symbols serve as a Rosetta Stone for a language expressed through vision and light rather than words. Many symbols in Lingo are familiar and recognizable, while others are unreadable and mysterious, illustrating a language that needs deciphering in non-linear methods. Lingo is a six-foot dome with wing-like projections emanating from the center, with wing-like projections emanating from the center, and metal rings wrapping around the body. The work of art is suspended from the ceiling with cables and is lit internally with neon light that illuminates the symbols, negative space cut-outs and the surrounding ceiling. About the Artist Marc Moulton, a 1987 graduate of Ohio State University with a Masters of Fine Arts in sculpture, is an instructional assistant for the sculpture program at the University of Northern Iowa. He oversees the sculpture/ceramic studio, and the students and staff who work in the program.Moulton has completed more than eight major commissions in the State of Iowa, including Pinnacle for the Iowa Civil Rights Commission on the state capitol grounds in Des Moines. He has exhibited his sculpture in more than 52 group and solo exhibitions across the United States and has received many awards and honors.

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