Gayle Bard, Steven Maslach

Gayle Bard and Steven Maslach have collaborated on the ceiling treatment of the main axis connecting the library entrance with the atrium stairwell.  This ceiling is coved at the ceiling/sidewall junction and illuminated from below with concealed fluorescent fixtures; surfaces are painted to emulate sky.  The portion of this sculpture which is glass consists of several cast and hot-worked glass panels suspended from the ceililng.  The castings are clear glass with textures and flow patterns representative of the flow of water.  Dichroic filters impart a blue to magenta delicate colloration to the glass; these colors shift and change as one walks underneath the sculpture.