711 N Midland Ave. Joliet, Illinois 60435, United States
(815) 823-5255 art gallery
Marsha Lega's Studio metal wall sculptures & gallery
Photograph of Alex Rodriquez home
by Björn Wallander
Architectural Digest 2016
Marsha Lega
For over 28 years Marsha Lega strives to create contemporary art in the form of metal wall sculptures that appear to float across the wall, denying their usual heaviness and attachment to supporting forms. The sculptures cleanness of line makes them appear effortless in execution, again denying the real difficulty in cutting and forming heavy metal. Changing and controlling industrial material in such a way as to bring out its beauty and humanity excites Lega. This fight to defy our usual relationship with sheet stainless steel,brass and copper expresses Marsha Legas personal fight to affect her surroundings. It echoes the struggle all humans have to mold, change, and influence the unyielding, unnatural world around them.
Selected Awards
Recipient National Niche award
Excellence in Metals award
Des Moines Art Center
National Niche award for furniture design
NEA Projects on Millennium Trail Grant
Best of LA Design Week, Product: Stainless Steel contemporary art
Illinois Art Council Travel Grant
Finalist in Sculpture, Midwestern Sculpture Exhibition,
South Bend Regional Museum of Art metal wall sculptures
The Chicago Athenaeum, Museum
Of Architects and Design Award
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Selected Exhibitions
New Chicago Furniture
Art Expo, New York City stainless steel
International Contemporary Furniture Show, NYC
Tokyo International Gift Show
One of a Kind Show, Chicago metal wall sculptures
Urban Art Against Violence, Joliet, Illinois.
Illuminations, Marelli's Glass Artistry, Omaha, Nebraska