RESTRUCTURING MATISSE - Perrysburg, Ohio
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N 41° 33.622 W 083° 37.825
17T E 280652 N 4604307
RESTRUCTURING MATISSE ARTIST: Mike Sohikian SIZE:Height: 7ft. tallest piece Group: 10ft. diameter MEDIUM: L.C. A36 Steel
Waymark Code: WM5F0M
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 12/30/2008
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Outspoken1
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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. Mike’s sculpture “Restructuring Matisse” installed in this exhibit) was voted the most popular sculpture in the Canton Michigan sculpture exhibit.
Title: RESTRUCTURING MATISSE

Artist: Mike Sohikian

Media (materials) used: L.C. A36 Steel

Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Hood Park

Date of creation or placement: Not listed

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