“The paths taken by George Rhoads' flashing little sound-making balls are varied and magical, making art of hypnotic movement. They've been showing up all over North America these past few years —these intriguing machines with acrobatic balls that move around metal tracks and make noises as they go. There's a highly conspicuous, popular one called 42nd Street Ballroom in the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City. There are two in Terminal C at Boston's Logan International Airport and two more in the mammoth West Edmonton Mall in Alberta. You can also encounter them in shopping centers in New Haven, Connecticut; Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Rochester and Watertown, New York; and Kamloops, British Columbia, among other places in North America. There is a big one in the Boston Museum of Science, and there was in the recent past a gallery full of them at the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadow on Long Island. To the man who made them, artist George Rhoads, they are “audiokinetic sculptures” that generate sounds as they move.” —Richard Kostelanitz,
“Clumper Upper to Wok Dumper to Chute to Helix to Block”

Sculpture in Micronesia: http://www.micronesiamall.com/mimo.htm

See the sculpture at the Science Discovery McWane Center in Birmingham, Alabama.

The Rolling Ball Web site: http://www.marcdatabase.com/~lemur/rb-rhoads.html

Hear the sounds of the ball machine at Science World B.C in Vancouver
http://www.vanvr.com/vanvr/qt/scienceWorldwSoundSnow.html


See the Bee Tree sculpture: http://users.rcn.com/jdeubel/plaza/beetree.html

Sculpture at Logan Airport, Boston, MA: http://www.massport.com/logan/about_artpo.html



Contact GeorgeRhoads: georgerhoads@clarityconnect.com

For information on purchasing a shelf-sized limited edition sculpture,
contactcontact Dick Cretser: 607-387-5242 or cretser@htva.net

For information on commissioning a sculpture, contact Bob McGuire, Rock Stream Studios:
Phone: (607) 272-0116 / Email: rss@lightlink.com / Fax: (607) 277-6536