Photo credit: Thomas McFetridge | Courtesy of Crystal Bridges and the Momentary
Buckyball
Here, two nested geometric spheres covered in LED tubes take the shape of a Carbon 60 molecule. Named in honor of Buckminster Fuller, whose Fly’s Eye Dome sculpture is located on the Crystal Bridges campus, Buckyball is capable of producing 16 million distinct colors. This sculpture is illuminated from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day. The light display changes from the white-light daytime sequence to a vibrantly colored evening sequence shortly after dark.
ArtistLeo Villareal(b. 1967)
Date2012
MediumAluminum tubing clad with LED lights atop aluminum plinth
Dimensions144 x 144 in. (914.4 x 365.8 x 365.8 cm)
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2014.3
ClassificationSculpture
Provenanceto (Sandra Gering Inc., New York, NY); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2014
On ViewYes
This artwork's face covers about 19× the area of a standard movie poster.Drawn to the same scale.