Cloud Chamber for the Trees and Sky
Artist
Chris Drury
British, born Sri Lanka, 1948
Date2003
MediumStone, wood, and turf
DimensionsApprox. diameter: 12 ft. (3.66 m)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineCommissioned by the North Carolina Museum of Art with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object number2005.12
On View
On viewPublished References"Sculpture from the Earth and in the Air," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (July/August 2003), illus. and details (color) 4, detail (color) front cover.
Huston Paschal and Linda Johnson Dougherty, Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2003), 95, illus. (color) 95, detail (color) 96.
Angela Melkisethian, "Commissions: Chris Drury, Chamber for the Trees and Sky," Sculpture 22, no. 9 (November 2003), discussed, interior and exterior illus. (color) 23.
Michelle Natale, "Take a seasonal respite in beauty," Raleigh: The News and Observer, "What's Up" insert (December 14, 2007), mentioned 17.
Josh Shaffer, "Cloud Chamber alters art's state," Raleigh: The News and Observer (North Raleigh News insert: December 31, 2008), discussed and illustrated (color) 3N.
Linda J. Dougherty, entry for Cloud Chamber for the Trees and Sky, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 556, illus. (color) 557, also mentioned and illus. (color) 16.
Helena Feder, "Cloud Chamber – for A. R. Ammons (on Chris Drury's camera obscura)" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 148.Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight," November 2, 2003-March 7, 2004, cat. 95, illus. (color) 95, detail (color) 96.
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