Robert Wechsler studied sculpture at the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara and was an artist in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
His meticulously crafted sculptures surprise and astonish as viewers engage with things they have grown accustomed to overlooking.
Wechsler’s current work centers on coins, primarily the US penny.
By precisely notching and joining coins, he creates arresting, highly regular geometric forms.
Sculptures range in size from hand-held polyhedrons made of ten coins to monumental lattices comprised of tens of thousands of coins.
These objects call to mind platonic solids, molecules, or modular structures.
Wechsler highlights the beauty of these coins, each one aged and worn, each one stamped with a year impressed with a history.
More of Robert Wechsler’s sculptures can be found at https://robertwechsler.com/.
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