Karolina Kawiaka's Exhibit Champions Green Design
January 26, 2010 | Levent OZLER
A striking arrangement of transparent blocks tinged blue by lights lining the edges is illuminating the Strauss Gallery in the Hopkins Center this term as the key feature of an architecture exhibit by studio art professor Karolina Kawiaka.
The exhibit, which opened Jan. 12 and is on display until March 14, also includes several miniature, expertly detailed models of energy efficient buildings and a series of framed abstract drawings that Kawiaka said deals with "compositional issues and depth of space."
Kawiaka - the proprietor of Karolina Kawiaka Studio, an architecture, furniture and visual art firm in Vermont - received a grant from the Vermont Arts Council to create her "sculpture powered by the sun." The piece, which uses the sunlight that floods the Strauss Gallery to illuminate hundreds of small blue bulbs, is highly indicative of Kawiaka's approach to her work, which combines fine-art aesthetics with eco-friendly practicality.
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