Doug Hollis
\n<\/strong><\/h1>\nAmerican, b. 1948<\/p>\n
High-back Windharp Chairs<\/em>, 1987
\nPainted steel and piano wire
\nGift of BE&K Engineering and Construction, Birmingham, Alabama
\n1999.1.1-2<\/p>\n<\/div>![\"4.Hollis](\"https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/4.Hollis_20200523_cheekwood_0155.jpg\")
<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Doug Hollis\u2019\u00a0High-back Windharp Chairs<\/em>\u00a0was the first work secured for The Carell Trail. At first glance, the two parts of the sculpture appear to be tall, oversized metal chairs painted in the same brick orange color of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, where the artist has lived since the mid-1970s. Arranged by the artist to face each other and create something like an outdoor room, the chairs are the product of his self-described \u201cfurniture phase\u201d in the 1980s. With their vivid color and elevated seats, raised, as Hollis stated, \u201cjust a little too high, so when you\u2019re sitting on them, your legs are kind of dangling a bit,\u201d the two chairs have a playful, humorous quality. Upon closer examination and listening, Hollis\u2019 sculpture reveals itself as a musical instrument. With their high-backs constructed from taut piano wire, the work also functions as an aeolian, or wind, harp, generating sound with the breeze.<\/p>\nHollis developed an interest in sound and outdoor sculpture in 1976, while working as an artist-in-residence at the Exploratorium, a museum in San Francisco, founded by noted physicist Frank Oppenheimer. Hollis has since created numerous large-scale public commissions with aural components, often created by integrating wind and moving water elements. He is perhaps best known for Seattle\u2019s\u00a0A Sound Garden<\/em>, a multipart sculpture comprised of twelve twenty-one-foot-high steel towers, each with an organ-pipe suspended from a weathervane at its pinnacle. The project was commissioned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)\u2019s Seattle campus, and the rock band Soundgarden cites it as the inspiration for their name.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doug Hollis\u2019\u00a0High-back Windharp Chairs\u00a0was the first work secured for The Carell Trail. At first glance, the two parts of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":660,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"simple-restrict-permission":[],"class_list":["post-1815","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nPainted steel and piano wire
\nGift of BE&K Engineering and Construction, Birmingham, Alabama
\n1999.1.1-2<\/p>\n<\/div>
<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Doug Hollis\u2019\u00a0High-back Windharp Chairs<\/em>\u00a0was the first work secured for The Carell Trail. At first glance, the two parts of the sculpture appear to be tall, oversized metal chairs painted in the same brick orange color of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, where the artist has lived since the mid-1970s. Arranged by the artist to face each other and create something like an outdoor room, the chairs are the product of his self-described \u201cfurniture phase\u201d in the 1980s. With their vivid color and elevated seats, raised, as Hollis stated, \u201cjust a little too high, so when you\u2019re sitting on them, your legs are kind of dangling a bit,\u201d the two chairs have a playful, humorous quality. Upon closer examination and listening, Hollis\u2019 sculpture reveals itself as a musical instrument. With their high-backs constructed from taut piano wire, the work also functions as an aeolian, or wind, harp, generating sound with the breeze.<\/p>\nHollis developed an interest in sound and outdoor sculpture in 1976, while working as an artist-in-residence at the Exploratorium, a museum in San Francisco, founded by noted physicist Frank Oppenheimer. Hollis has since created numerous large-scale public commissions with aural components, often created by integrating wind and moving water elements. He is perhaps best known for Seattle\u2019s\u00a0A Sound Garden<\/em>, a multipart sculpture comprised of twelve twenty-one-foot-high steel towers, each with an organ-pipe suspended from a weathervane at its pinnacle. The project was commissioned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)\u2019s Seattle campus, and the rock band Soundgarden cites it as the inspiration for their name.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Doug Hollis\u2019\u00a0High-back Windharp Chairs\u00a0was the first work secured for The Carell Trail. At first glance, the two parts of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":660,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"simple-restrict-permission":[],"class_list":["post-1815","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n