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MOTHER EARTH - 26" Bronze Sculpture (31.5 Lbs). Artist, Lisa Reinertson.  Limited edition. Commissioned by Solano County for Suisun Valley. In addition to the full size sculpture in the Abernathy/Rockville Road round about the other maquette is on display at the Solano County Superivsors Board Room foyer. 

Lisa Reinertson is a well known local sculptor.  This is an exact replica maquette of the large bronze figure commissioned by Solano County for Suisun Valley. Visit the Full size sculpture in the roundabout on Rockville Road.  You are bidding on a Limited Edition Item. 

About MOTHER EARTH

The concept developed for this sculpture was influenced by the desire to have a strong “gateway” sculpture to the Suisun Valley and its agricultural base. It was inspired by the lush beauty of the landscape, and by the “gateway” location of the roundabout.  The sculpture is a female figure that represents “Mother Earth”, that is approximately 6 1/2 feet, with her arms spread out to her sides. Spanning from hand to hand over her head is an arc of a rainbow. Her long hair is flowing out from her head along her arms to create a sense of a mountain range, and fanning down around her to complete the circle started by the rainbow overhead.  There are cloud images floating behind the rainbow and her hair, and the texture on her hair runs in rows that look like rows of crops in the fields. The figure is wearing a long skirt that would have fruit trees incorporated in bas-relief into the design, as if growing out from the earth below her.  The whole piece is very symmetrical and the circle formed by the rainbow and hair repeat the sense of the circle of the roundabout. She is looking slightly upwards with a fairly blissful/joyful expression, enjoying the bounty and beauty of Nature. 

The sculpture is cast in bronze, and set on a three-foot stone base in the center of the circle. The sculpture is enhance with a colored patina to make the metal rainbow have a multicolored effect. Her gesture is one of abundance, joy, and greeting. She is a combination of three-dimensional form of a figure, and landscape elements blended together. This has a visual richness of layers of imagery, yet easily grasped and seen as one came up to the sculpture and enters the roundabout.  

About Lisa Reinertson:  http://www.lisareinertson.com/

Lisa Reinertson had been creating monumental sculptures cast in bronze since her first major commission: "Martin Luther King, Jr." in Kalamazoo, MI in 1989. Reinertson earned her Masters of Fine Arts degree at the University of California at Davis where she studied with Robert Arneson, and Manuel Neri. While she was directly and personally influenced by both of them, she has also been strongly influenced by the figurative traditions in painting and sculpture. Her work combines a realism rooted in the humanist figurative tradition in art with a contemporary expression of social and psychological content. - essay taken from the Artworks Foundry & Gallery.

Read the entire essay about Lisa at the Artworks Foundry & Gallery (www.artworksfoundry.com)

Item Special Note

Winning Bidder can pick up this item at the SCC Foundation Office, December 1-15.