$15,000
Steel, stainless steel, paint
6’w x 4.9’h x 4.3’d
From the artist:
I am a sculptor in Athens, Georgia with a Masters of Fine Arts/Sculpture from Indiana University and undergraduate studies at UGA. My work is shown throughout the United States; including New York, Fort Lauderdale, San Francisco, the “Art Prize” in Grand Rapids, Michigan and abroad in Italy, Columbia, Peru, Poland, and Ghana, Africa. I lure the viewer in with luscious colors and materials to contemplate content in close proximity. My sculptures are hybrids, mythologies, and metaphors about flowers and plants. Science is my architectural inspiration as seen in organic flowing structures and constructs based on anatomy and botany. As an artist and educator I feel that art is an important social responsibility to create a response from the public audience ranging from delight; introspection; questioning; inspiration for future inventiveness, to the memories of things we saw as children that affected who we are as adults today.
Most of my work is inspired by flowers, and/ or their method of growth, from the spiraling fibonacci sequence of a fern uncurling as can be seen in this sculpture. “Dragonflower” is a floral spiral that unfurls like a dragon waking up from a nap. As you look around the piece you see different aspects of the flower or imagine the underbelly of the dragon.
Artist bio:
Joni Younkins-Herzog is an Athens, Georgia sculptor and former professor at the State College of Florida, New College and Ringling School of Art and Design. She earned a Masters of Fine Arts from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Georgia in Athens. Younkins-Herzog has exhibited her work throughout the United States; including New York, Fort Lauderdale, San Francisco, the “Art Prize” in Grand Rapids, Michigan and abroad in Italy, Columbia, Peru, Poland, and Ghana, Africa.
Artist website: https://www.joniyounkinsherzog.com/