Complexus - Sarasota, Florida.
N 27° 20.149 W 082° 32.793
17R E 347006 N 3024579
Complexus - A 70 feet tall, red Silhouette Sculpture, stands alongside the Tamiami Trail in Sarasota, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WMN1F4
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 12/07/2014
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This sculpture titled 'Complexus' is often called the 'Star pointer' or 'Pick up sticks' by the locals. The 70 foot tall red Corten steel sculpture, by John Henry was placed permanently at #1 Sarasota Tower (Chase Bank) Tamiami Trail (us-41) in November 2012.
"The 70-foot tall, bold and bright red steel sculpture was the star of the show at this year’s Sarasota Season of Sculpture’s outdoor sculpture exhibition. As that exhibition drew to a close, the Sarasota Pubic Art Fund launched a campaign to purchase this heroic piece of art. The sculpture is located at the corner of U.S. 41 and Gulfstream Avenue, in front of One Sarasota Tower, in downtown Sarasota.
Henry, whose career as an artist spans 45 years, is critically renowned for his large-scale, hard-edged works of art, often described as resembling Pick Up Sticks. Recognized as powerful statements that bisect visual space and easily integrate into the psyche, his works have become icons in important public art collections and are found in the permanent collections of museums, galleries and other corporate, public and private venues around the world.
Thanks to the recent decision on the part of the Sarasota City Commission and the Sarasota Public Art Fund’s fundraising campaign, Sarasotans are closer to calling this sculpture a permanent feature of their landscape." Text Source: (
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Text from marker reads:
"As an activity, art is as old as humankind. it has a heritage of several thousand years.
Modern art both challenges and stimulates the creative imagination, expanding our intellectual horizons, and deepening our emotional responses to life's possibilities.
John Henry sees Complexus as being Sarasotas specific.
His sculpture now placed on our bay front honours a cultural jewel of a City, the spirit of which reaches out to all the arts, the participants of the arts community and its magnificent world class arts institutions and its artists.
Complexus is intended to signify commitment to the creative component
in life, which makes Sarasota unique among towns across our nation.
From this day forward, let us look upp at cComplexus and let our minds soar with excitement and wonder of creativity and the role it plays it plays in the lives of us all.
John Henry / November 7th 2012."
Location: 1 Sarasota Tower - Bayfront.