Terry Fugate-Wilcox
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Terry Fugate-Wilcox (1944- ) is an American sculptor, born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Among other works, he created the sculpture 3000 A.D. Diffusion Piece (1974) in J. Hood Wright Park, in the Washington Heights area of New York City. The sculpture is composed of several stacked and bolted plates of magnesium and aluminum, which Fugate-Wilcox estimates will fuse together at or around the year 3000.
Fugate-Wilcox also created the public sculpture Weathering Concrete Triangle (1984) at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Waverly Place in Manhattan.
Founder of Actual Art movement, 40-foot-tall "Self-Watering Tetrahedrons" at Prudential, Newark, New Jersey; current project: San Andreas Fault Sculpture Project, 68,000 tonsof concrete spanning the San Andreas Fault near Palm Springs, CA.; listed in Marquis Who's Who, 2008.
[edit] External links
- Beyond Time: an episode of the WNYC radio show Radio Lab that profiles Fugate-Wilcox and the sculpture 3000 AD Diffusion Piece.
- [1]: [A description of 3000 AD Diffusion Piece] from the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
