Tower

Tower
Gary Spinosa
1947
Artist Biography
Acquisition Number: 2017.9
Medium: Wood, porcelain, and metal
Size: 144" x 42 1/4" x 44 3/4"
Date: 1981
Credit: Gift of the artist.

Spinosa's work seems to be inspired by world religions, and he says that they are ways for people to connect with their ancestral memories and past lives. He feels that he's contacting a universal part of ourselves and capturing it in his art. To Spinosa, birds are a connection to heaven, and the doe is a welcoming guardian to the ancestral world. "Tower" reaches up, at a height of 12 feet, to the ancestors that we have lost our connection with.