2011 Winning Designs (1 of 20)



“Balancing Act” • 15’ x 4.5’ x 4’ • Aluminum

Artist: JOHN ADDUCI

Sponsor: Newsweb Corporation

Location: Stockton Drive and Webster - Granny’s Garden


John Adduci’s sculptures have been featured in shows and museums across North America, from Denver to Manitoba, Canada. The artist’s broad appeal is his talent for finding a simple, meaningful image and bestowing upon it a sense of spectacular wonder. He often recreates a single symbol or idea in gleaming aluminum, steel or bronze, buffered to reflect sunlight in wispy, electric streaks.

“Balancing Act”, Adduci’s shimmering submission to this year’s LSE, appears to pay homage to the hard hustling street performers from cities around the world whose livings are as precarious as a spinning plate. A living that is not too dissimilar from that of a sculptor whose job it is, in Adduci’s words, to “excite our intuition to explore, to see all sides,” and create an “on-the-street experience with art.”

For further information on the art featured on this site, other pieces located in the 43rd/44th Wards or for information on how to purchase pieces from the Lakefront Sculpture Exhibit, contact us at Alderman Tunney's office at (773) 525-6034 or e-mail us at: info@chicagolse.org

LSE is an Illinois not-for-profit 501(c)3 corporation.

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