Art & Archives
Audiovisual Collection
Neon Colors / East Face of Miami River Bridge, 1983 / Color Scheme for The Miami Line Collection: Miami-Dade Art in Public Places
Neon Colors / East Face of Miami River Bridge, 1983 / Color Scheme for The Miami Line Collection: Miami-Dade Art in Public Places
“One is a room-activating composition of aluminum triangles… For the viewer feels as if Krebs has discovered something as monumentally simple as the triangle or the space within a room. It is this simplicity, rather than the shifting richness that swirl about it, that persists in the viewer’s memory…” Paul Richard, Washington Post, Restraint Enhances Young Washington Artist’s Sculptures, 1968
A different time, the same place
Nov 15, 1969, Anti-Vietnam War Protest on the National Mall, Washington, DC, photos by Rockne Krebs / Lynda Benglis and Rockne Krebs, 1971/Rocky’s happy glasses, 1970
Washington Star, 1972 “The man who turned laser beams into an artistic accomplishment will have a grim exhibit in the Art for McGovern. He plans to have it flash once every second for as many seconds as there have been lives lost in the Vietnam war, he will have to keep the beam flashing all night…”
Four Rectangles, Smoke Drawing Series, 1973
Candle smoke, airbrush, ink and graphite on paper. 20 × 30”
Published April 2024 on Instagram https://tinyurl.com/2vmetjuj
The Studio, 1976 - 1737 Johnson Ave. NW, Washington, DC. Recently found negatives in Krebs' photograph collection. Published Feb 23, 2016
Sun Dog, 1976. Solar and laser installations for the U.S. Bicentennial Expo Science and Technology, Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, FL. Commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1976 Sun Dog was the first work of art ever commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Installation photographs from Krebs’s public art sculpture The White Tornado, 1979. Site-specific sculpture installed in the atrium of the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Topeka, KS. Commissioned by the U.S. General Services Administration Art-in-Architecture Program.
Restoration completed by McKay Lodge Laboratory Fine Art Conservation in 2017.
Rockne Krebs' Light Art, CBS National News, mid-1980's. "Rockne Krebs will always have the sun for a palette.”
Public art installation in the Miami International Airport. “To make them 8 feet long and out of transparent material resembles a Wonder Woman idea in some ways…” Rockne Krebs
Drawings for Neo-Green, 1986. Neo-Green, urban-scale laser installation, Memorial Art Gallery and The University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 1987.
“…I think it might be helpful in your full appreciation of him, if I could tell you a little bit more about him and, what I perceive to be, his place in contemporary art.
Rockne Krebs is both a pioneer of laser art and a master of contemporary environmental sculpture..."
Video by Rockne Krebs, 1987. Digitized from vintage video footage in 2015. "Rockne Krebs' iconic Miami Line...lets you know, lest you forget, that you are in The Magic City." Aventura Magazine, 2012. “…The Miami Line, a magnificent public art work by Rockne Krebs …to create a brilliant, soaring line of colored light pulsing through the city’s heart, casting a magical shimmer of ever-changing color on the river.” Art Circuits, Miami Line Spans City with Art, 2012.
Video by Rockne Krebs, 1987. Digitized from vintage video footage. "Rockne Krebs' iconic Miami Line...lets you know, lest you forget, that you are in The Magic City." Aventura Magazine, 2012. “…The Miami Line, a magnificent public art work by Rockne Krebs …to create a brilliant, soaring line of colored light pulsing through the city’s heart, casting a magical shimmer of ever-changing color on the river.” Art Circuits, Miami Line Spans City with Art, 2012.
Crystal Willow, public art sculpture in Bethesda, MD. "Rockne Krebs was, by the 1970s, a major pioneer in public artworks." Public Art Review Magazine, 2012.
Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 National Artists Equity Association and Podesta Associates reception for the VARA of 1990 at the Russell Senate Office Building. Speakers: Senator Edward M. Kennedy; Congressman Robert W. Kastenmeier; Congressman Edward J. Markey; Honorable Ralph Oman, Register of Copyrights; Honorable John E. Frohnmayer, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts; George Koch, President of National Artists Equity; and Rockne Krebs, Vice President of National Artists Equity.