Asheville Art Museum announces first public art installation on its plaza
(Artdaily.org)

Artist Henry Richardson arrives this week to install his glass orb Reflections on Unity, Thursday, September 19. The two-ton sculpture will be the first work installed in the Asheville Art Museum’s plaza as part of its inaugural public art sculptural exhibition. Richardson chiseled and sanded bonded plate glass to create his orb series. “It’s made out of a material that you don’t see in sculpture in this scale,” Richardson says of the bulletproof glass used to create the six-foot work of art. “And by placing it on this very large boulder, which is black and angular, you’re going to have a sense of mass down below and almost ethereal lightness on the glass orb.” “My hope is that Reflections on Unity acts as a symbol of what the Asheville Art Museum is—a place of unity,” explains Assistant Curator Whitney Richardson (no relation to the artist), who played an integral role in