HOMAGE TO IRONWORK - Perrysburg, Ohio
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N 41° 33.625 W 083° 37.836
17T E 280637 N 4604313
ARTIST: Mike Sohikian
SIZE: 10ft height. X 6ft.
MEDIUM: Low Carbon Steel & Stainless Steel
Waymark Code: WM5F0G
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 12/30/2008
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ARTIST: Mike Sohikian
SIZE: 10ft height. X 6ft.
MEDIUM: Low Carbon Steel & Stainless Steel
Artist Biography:
Mike Sohikian, a retired ironworker has been a member of the Bridge and Structural Ironworkers Local 55 for 37 years. He has had a lifetime of love and appreciation for art, but didn’t begin his art career until 1995. Since then he has garnered acclaim and numerous prestigious awards and recognition for his paintings and sculptures. Sohikian is best known for taking salvaged steel to new heights with impressive and innovative concepts. He assembles industrial materials as well as reworks the materials into fascinating forms. Within the past thirteen years his paintings and sculpture work has been published in news articles and numerous art publications, most noteworthy is inclusion of his work in four of Schiffer Publishing Collectors Editions, most recently The Sculpture Reference (Illustrated) by Arthur Williams, 2005. His paintings and sculptures are in over 400 art collections nationwide.
Artist: HOMAGE TO IRONWORK
Media (materials) used: Steel
Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Hood Park
Title: Not listed
Date of creation or placement: Not listed
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