I recently made a custom mobile sculpture for the TV show And Just Like That … and installed on the set in a loft in New York City last week. Filming took place a couple of days after, and the ...
I’ve had the privilege to custom-design and make a two-part mobile sculpture for the atrium at the Learning Commons at Kettering University, a highly innovative state-of-the-art 105,000 square-...
Photos of a large custom-designed mobile sculpture for a private residence in Key Biscayne, Florida. By the client’s request, via Venezuelan architect and interior designer Alejandro Barrios Ca...
This is a continuation in progress (as of 2024) of my previous post Contemporary Mobile Sculptures – Expanding Calder’s Art Form with new mobile sculptures that I’m currently working on: Th...
What I’m currently (2024) working on in my apparently perpetual endeavor to expand the art form of mobiles beyond the limitations of Alexander Calder‘s work: Calder described his approach to ...
Photos by Swiss-Australian filmmaker, video artist, and photographer Tanya Stadelmann of me working at my shop: The post Photos of Me at My Shop – Mobile Sculpture Artist first appeared on Mob...
Photos of a custom made mobile, yet to be painted, and based on an additional design idea from a mobile sculpture made for the movie The Upside, which in turn was based on my Mobile 92. Made out ...
New Article in R•Home: Marco Mahler gives new life to the kinetic art form Calder made famous It talks about how I got inspired by Alexander Calder’s mobiles at the National Gallery of Art’...
Images of an outdoor standing kinetic mobile sculpture I custom designed and custom made for a private residence in the Bahamas this past winter. The design: The residence: A “fly-around” ani...
In 2017, I made a custom designed mobile for the movie The Upside, featuring Bryan Cranston, Nicole Kidman and Kevin Hart. The trailer for the movie in which the mobile is featured several times ...
In early 2017 I custom designed and made a mobile for the movie The Upside. Today the trailer for the film was released in which the mobile is featured several times: The mobile looks like this (...
Additional snapshots of additional new abstract mobile sculptures that I’m currently working on: Each part in these mobiles is suspended and balanced. The balance structure in each mobile is es...
Mobile Sculptures for sale at Art Basel Miami Beach December 7th – 10th 2017: Roy Lichtenstein Mobile I, 1989 Galerie Gmurzynska FOS Mobile, 2010 Nils Stærk Alexander Calder Untitled, 1967 Kuk...
Snapshots of a mobile in progress – as part of a new series of contemporary original mobile sculptures I’m currently working on. The 2-dimensional photos illustrate well the many different wa...
Some snapshots of new mobile sculptures I’m currently working on: These are true mobiles, meaning they are kinetic and based on the same balance structure as a Calder mobile, yet original and c...
As a professional mobile sculptor, I continuously study other artists’ work who have also explored the art form of mobiles. On this page I’m summarizing some of the research I have done for m...
Experimenting with a different kind of mobile sculpture made of soldered wire: And some other new mobile sculptures I’m working on: See more of my mobiles Read more of my blog about mobiles See...
Custom-designed / custom-made Calder-inspired mobile for L’Usine Le Thanh Ton (via Tom Johnson and BHA Studio). The idea / design: Measurements: The finished mobile: The installed mobile on sit...
I am honored and excited to have been asked to make a custom mobile (shown below) for Robert A. M. Stern Architects’ room at this year’s Kips Bay Designer Show House, which will be open to th...
Custom designed / custom made mobile sculpture for the movie The Upside, in which it will be featured as part of the storyline (see the trailer). The movie, directed by Neil Burger and starring B...
Photos by Carin Walsh of our 3D Printed Mobiles at The Mobile Show in Durham NC earlier this month: The 3D printing company we use (Shapeways) has a cyber monday sale today (Nov 28 2016): Free sh...
Proposals for a large suspended custom sculpture (mobile) for an atrium at a children’s hospital. The color combinations are based on the interior colors as well as the colors within the logo o...
In 2013, I collaborated with Henry Segerman to create a first of its kind collection of 3D Printed Mobiles. Outside of being Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Oklahoma State...
A custom designed mobile for a private residence in Montana in progress: For an element (shape) to be able to balance, the suspension point needs to be above the center of mass. In addition to t...
Call to artists for The Mobile: Composition in Motion, an exhibit of hanging and standing mobiles at The Carrack in Durham, NC. Artists working in any medium, regardless of mobile-making experien...
A new Alexander Calder exhibit titled Motion Lab at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened this past Saturday and will run until Sept 10 2017. It traces Calder’s explorations of motion f...
Some of the technical (“behind the scenes”) aspects of designing, making and installing a large custom mobile. Design: Proposing a variety of designs to the client (see the full render design...
A group of nine works by Alexander Calder will be sold at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York on May 10th 2016. All of them were made by Calder in 1955 while vi...
.125 by Alexander Calder In collaboration with SOM At the International Arrival Building at JFK Airport The 5 largest mobile sculptures worldwide that I’m aware of – all by Alexander Calder: ...
Custom mobile project for the rotunda at Titus Elementary School in Warrington, PA. The design is based on the school’s PAWS award (pictured below). PRIDE is an acronym for P-Pride, R-Respect, ...
The largest Alexander Calder exhibition titled Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture opens at Tate Modern (London) tomorrow with over 100 works, and runs from Nov 11 2015 until Apr 3 2016. The G...
A number of render animations I’ve put together of custom mobile designs: To see the separate full length videos, please go to my YouTube channel. The post Mobiles – 3D Models – Render Anim...
Our 3D printed mobile Quaternary Tree Mobile (Level 5) is part of the current exhibition at Esther Klein Gallery in Philadelphia titled MathThematic: a fine art exhibition: The show features arti...
Photos of a large atrium sculpture (kinetic mobile) I custom designed, made and installed (via The Art Company) at the newly built Joint and Spine Center at the Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH,...
As part of the 20th Triennial Grenchen 2015 Art Limited – Multiple Art, the Kunstgesellschaft Grenchen in collaboration with PrintaBit organized a 3d printing competition, in which the 3d print...
Photos of a large mobile (33ft/10m) suspended by a crane for adjustments, which turned out to be very minimal because the balance points and various alignments were calculated beforehand with eng...
Proposals / custom designs for large mobiles for a three-story atrium: – See more of my custom mobile designs or read more of my blog about mobiles – The post Proposals / Custom Designs for L...
I’m sorry about the lack of blog posts lately, I’ve been very busy. Just for now, here are some of the custom mobiles I’m currently working on: A custom mobile for a foyer at a private resi...
A few days ago I received an email from a middle school student who is working on a project for his math class about mobile art. His assignment was to research Alexander Calder or choose a differ...
Two photos of me installing three large custom mobiles at the Fair Oaks Marriott in Fairfax, Virginia: Thank you to Paula Benesch of P3 Design Collective for taking these photos! The post In Acti...
I just found out that I won 3rd Prize in the 2015 International Kinetic Art Competition! I can’t quite believe it yet. Very exciting! The competition is organized by the Kinetic Art Organizatio...
Working on what might become a very large (207ft / 63m long) suspended kinetic art installation at the departure concourse at Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, Jamaica: Renders of ...
Houzz is featuring a new article I wrote today: Art in Motion: The Story Behind Mobiles. It covers topics such as what mobiles are, the history of mobiles (including Alexander Calder of course), ...
On July 22 2011, Google replaced their logo on their homepage worldwide with a doodle to celebrate Alexander Calder‘s 113th birthday: The doodle was a Calder-style mobile that used HTML5 canvas...
Our little 3D Printed Mobile 1 is now available in 9 different colors (yellow, green and orange are newly added). Today is the last day to order them if you’d like to receive them by Dec. 24th....
I wrote a new article for Houzz: “From the Artist: How to Make a Real Mobile – It’s all in the balancing points: A top mobile designer shows how to create a Calder-inspired installation of ...
Today, December 4th 2014, at Art Basel Miami Beach, Leonardo DiCaprio also came to buy. As the dealer David Nahmad stood in front of an Alexander Calder mobile at Helly Nahmad Gallery, the heavil...
Two original Alexander Calder mobiles, one hanging and one standing, sold tonight at Sotheby’s Art Contemporain in Paris: Sans Titre (Untitled Hanging Mobile) painted metal and wire ca. 1947 86...
The 3D printing service company Shapeways that we use to make our 3D Printed Mobiles is having a Cyber Monday Sale today: 20% off when you enter promo code “CYBER20” (expires tonight December...
Photos of a large custom mobile I finished last week for a client’s children’s playroom (via Reddymade Design, NYC). It measures 6 ft / 1.8 m and is made with a hollow aluminum sphere (ball)....