Reuben Heyday Margolin is an American-born artist and sculptor known for his mechanically-driven kinetic sculptures of wave-forms. Some of the sculptures are hand-cranked and small scale, while others are large, installed in large high-ceiling spaces, suspended from the ceiling. His art also includes drawings, portraiture, traditional sculpture, and rickshaws.

Education

He was educated at Berkeley High School, then at Harvard University, where he earned a BA in English. He later studied drawing in Florence, Initially and Monumental painting at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Russia.

Career

In Autumn of 2010, Margolin installed "Nebula", a kinetic art work with 4,500 amber crystals, in the Hilton Anatole

Hilton Anatole

The Hilton Anatole is a hotel located at 2201 Stemmons Freeway in the Market Center District near downtown Dallas, Texas . Featuring 1,606 guest rooms, it is one of the largest hotels in the Southwest and is a major convention and meeting facility...

Hotel in Dallas, Texas . The piece has been described as "perhaps the most ambitious kinetic sculpture ever commissioned."

External links

• Official site