Nancy Rubin Installation "Big Edge" at City Center

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Big Edge

Designed by Nancy Rubins, this canoe sculpture located at the heart of City Center in downtown Las Vegas has become City Center's crown jewel. More than 200 aluminum boats — canoes, rowboats and flat-bottomed boats — make up the wild bouquet of color and shape juxtaposed against surrounding monochromatic glass buildings. Attached to an armature and to one another, the boats shoot upward and outward and are supported by cantilevers. It looks as if they were tossed into the air and captured in a freeze frame.

Artist Background: Nancy Rubins was born in Naples, TX, raised in Tullahoma, TN, and studied in Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore (BFA, 1974) and the University of California, Davis (MFA, 1976). She currently lives and works in Topanga Canyon, CA. For more than 25 years, Rubins has exhibited extensively around the world. For more go to [Nancy Rubins].

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