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
Untitled, Rockne Krebs, 1965
Sculpture Minus Object, Rockne Krebs, 1968. The first ever 3-D laser beam installation.
Untitled, Rockne Krebs, 1970
Inclined Planes, Rockne Krebs, Johnstown, PA, 1989
“‘I was influenced by Anthony Caro and the Color Painters, and I was trying to find a way to define the three-dimensional space that makes sculpture different from painting,’ Rockne Krebs explains.”
Instagram reel 12/22/2024: https://tinyurl.com/56fc5drn
Color Studies for Sculpture, 1966
1962-1965 United States Navy
1965 Trip to Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont to meet and visit Anthony Caro and Kenneth Noland. Began plexiglass sculptures.
“...Krebs would pursue the rather typical course of the serious student artist, majoring in sculpture at the University of Kansas (1961) with the sculptors Elden Tefft, Bernard Frazier, Jim Bass and James Sterrit. The fact of his long artistic apprenticeship has been overlooked….” Jay Belloli, 1990
Toward an Isle of Meditation, Rockne Krebs, 1974
drawing text excerpts: Sun Rise Video Grid – each day at sunrise a color real time video image of the sunrise would be televised over one or more of the local television stations. To be Boston harbor proposal have over a building looking out over the Boston harbor at sunrise. Actually, sunset is probably better…
Instagram reel https://tinyurl.com/58zjja5u
Excerpts from an insightful 2016 art review by Claudia Rousseau, Ph.D. in East City Art.
“The image is evocative of many things, from microscopic animals to galaxies meeting in deep space. This iconography seems to permeate all the works, alluding to both the microcosm and the macrocosm simultaneously, capturing the chance movements of the medium that mimic nature’s simplicity and mystery...”
Reel on Instagram https://tinyurl.com/476shwdj
Rockne Krebs: Horses
December 24, 2024
Today is Rockne Krebs’ birthday, born in 1938, he would have been 86. In celebration of his birthday and his art, we looked to his childhood photo album and a frequent subject in his art, horses. The photographs are of Rockne and his mother, Lorine Krebs in 1940, when he was 2 years old, in 1941, and in 1943 when he was 5 years old.
Instagram reel https://tinyurl.com/bdz5s487
Rockne Krebs: Blue
Instagram reel https://tinyurl.com/yft756v2
Every Sculpture Tells a Story ~ Whitney Annual Exhibition, 1966
Untitled, Rockne Krebs, 1966. Plexiglas, aluminum and Formica
Photo: Art in America, January-February 1969. Collector: Larry Aldrich by John Russell. First exhibited in the 1966 Whitney Annual Exhibition, then purchased by Larry Aldrich and exhibited at The Aldrich.
Moon Archer, 1974, featured in Tracing Vision: Modern Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art, Carol A. Nathanson (Editor), 2011.
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..."
The Rainbow Trees / A Virtual Exhibit
A Rainbow Tree, 1970
A Red Rainbow Tree, 1973
A White Rainbow Tree, 1973
Hand-colored lithographs, 17 x 22”
Rockne Krebs: Trees
Instagram reel https://tinyurl.com/33euk4wn
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