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I recently brought home from the studio a large plate that has a portrait of Grandma on it that my Dad painted. It's from the 1960s - Heather
She was in her 40s at the time, she didn’t like the portrait, she said it made her look old, but really it looked exactly how she looked. When she was in her 50s, then she said she liked the portrait. - Art
It was at the time, not long after John Kennedy was assassinated, and everything was named after him. And they were picking out a name for the group, and so Mom came up with The Lady Birds, since Lyndon Johnson's wife's nickname was Lady Bird. And then I believe that she [Lady Bird Johnson] heard about the club and wrote Mom a letter. Mom had that letter for a long time, thanking her for naming it after her. - Art Krebs
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I’d go to several of those meetings with her, and in those days, down in those windy roads, you would not believe the roads in those days. I’d drive her sometimes to those meetings, and it was quite a distance and things and always late at night. Mail was still being delivered by donkey on some of those roads back then. - Art Krebs
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- H. Krebs, October 27, 2022
"The laser would kick on right at sunset, as a subtle reminder of Florida’s famous “flash of green,” the natural phenomenon that occurs at the moment the sun “sinks” into the Gulf." Glenn Anderson
Featured in the St. Pete Catalyst, January 2022
VINTAGE ST. PETE: The Pier and The Laser, Bill DeYoung, St. Pete Catalyst, January 21, 2022
Glenn Anderson, former Director of the St. Petersburg Arts Commission, discusses Rockne Krebs’ public art installation,
The Laser and Starboard (Home on the Range, Part VI), 1975
in 2022 with Heather Krebs.
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Rockne Krebs, 1975, St. Petersburg, FL. during the the installation of his laser sculpture on The Pier. Photo by Bill Tyjewski. Krebs watches as a 1,000-pound steel laser table is lifted through the window.
"So that scientific table that had the laser and the beam mover and all that stuff on it, actually, he put a lace tablecloth on it first, so you can see the lace tablecloth edges from those pictures that you have. He had hand picked that someplace. It was somebody's family’s tablecloth, probably handed down in generations, ended up in a thrift shop, and he included that. And there were some other objects. I think there is a cup and saucer, and there was a plate, ah, yes, there was. He had actually set a place setting on the table, all of this being tongue in cheek, it was a laser table that he had made into a dining table. The items in that place setting were also things that people had brought down from up north someplace, and it had now passed into a thrift shop. And anyway, yeah, he really had a nicer sense of the community than most people live here, I'll tell you that. "
Glenn Anderson, February 5, 2022
Rockne Krebs, 1975, by Bill Tyjewski, St. Petersburg, FL. during the the installation of Krebs’s laser sculpture on The Pier. Newspaper -1,000-pound laser table that Glenn Anderson, Director St. Petersburg Arts Commission, mentions in his letter #sciart #lasers #lightart #pioneer pic.twitter.com/KvP29VgcMg
— Rockne Krebs, Artist (@RockneKrebsArt) March 4, 2018
Artist Rockne Krebs and his laser sculpture are combined in a double-exposure at The St. Petersburg Pier. Krebs is leaning over his Plexiglas art installation piece, Starboard, Home on the Range, Part VI, he built to house the laser. “Krebs is setting prism timers and working on the laser that will project the intricate beams from off The Pier’s third floor…a malfunction that sent St. Petersburg’s new laser sculpture awry Tuesday night…a handful of thrill-seekers found out about it, started fooling with it… Here’s what happened with the $45,000 art creation by Krebs that, when on target, sends beams of bright lights shooting across the city’s waterfront from The Pier. A device called a beam mover, which moves the beam from The Pier to a reflecting mirror on the south side of the approach to The Pier, got a little rambunctious. It moved the beam a little too far in one direction, allowing part of the beam to miss the mirror and shoot across the seawall near the Senior Citizens Center.” Christopher Cubbison,
St. Petersburg Times, Sculpture: Laser Beam, April 3, 1976.
The Laser and Starboard, Home on the Range, Part VI, Rockne Krebs, 1975, St. Petersburg, FL.
— Rockne Krebs, Artist (@RockneKrebsArt) January 30, 2022
Commissioned by the St. Petersburg Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Photograph by Rockne Krebs, he drew on the slide in green ink. pic.twitter.com/gsL4ujoPQP
- HK
New Books in Science
W. Patrick McCray, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture (MIT Press, 2020)
An interview with W. Patrick McCray
Podcast: https://newbooksnetwork.com/making-art-work
An excerpt from the podcast.
Mathew Jordan: …was actually very sophisticated and creative, and a lot of the things you profile I encourage the listener to actively Google names and pieces as we bring them up because using digital tools in novel ways and using lasers and new audio techniques, this was really really sophisticated stuff. And it was far more than the stereotype example that maybe some people have in their heads walking through museums of just like, I don’t know someone plugged in a TV backwards and somehow that’s art. Well, it’s very easy to caricature in that way.
W. Patrick McCray: Well, just think of one example you mentioned, the laser. I mean, today you can go online and buy a laser for $5, have it delivered to your house the next day, and playing with your cat within ten minutes. But the laser was invented in the early 1960s, buying one cost several tens of thousands of dollars; these were large complex really sophisticated sort of things to do. So if you were a sculptor for example, one of the artists I write about in the book is a Washington, DC based artist named Rockne Krebs, who is interested in using laser light to make sculptures. The idea being that the laser beams would delineate the three-dimensional outline of a sculpture. This is something he began to do in the late 1960s working with engineers and technicians to help him realize this vision.
If you would go into an art gallery and see one of his laser light sculptures in say 1969, for most people this probably was the very first time they ever saw a laser. This is before Star Wars, light sabers, all sorts of the popularization of this particular technology, so for some people this was a chance to literally see this new electronic medium that was being presented to them, coupled with the fact that these often times were very ephemeral works of art. I mean if you make a sculpture using laser light, and you turn off the power source, what is left? You’ve got some drawings and memories, and that’s really about it. Which also then posed the challenge for museum directors, gallery owners, and curators. I mean how do you collect, how do you curate, these ephemeral works of art? Which I know is something that curators and museum people who work with new media art today are still grappling with, sort of the ephemerality, if you will, of these objects.
https://newbooksnetwork.com/making-art-work
New Books in Science - W. Patrick McCray, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture (MIT Press, 2020)
— Rockne Krebs, Artist (@RockneKrebsArt) June 26, 2021
An interview with W. Patrick McCray @LeapingRobot
Podcast excerpt - https://t.co/8EIfSEGOBW #RockneKrebs #artandscience #greatbook pic.twitter.com/vQoCaDHg3K
Learn more:
Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and
Artists Forged a New Creative Culture
by W. Patrick McCray
- HK
Rockne Krebs, 1968
Biltmore Street Studio, Washington, DC
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Ongoing Krebs Plexiglas Sculpture
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Richard, Paul. The Washington Post, March 31, 1968. HemisFair Sculpture.
-HK
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