Blue Green Refractory by Larry Akers

artist: Larry Akers series: Refractories title: Blue Green Refractory portfolio: http://www.eyeplaystudio.net Larry Akers has been doing constructed sculpture in Austin since 2011. Raised in Pampa, Texas, he escaped to Austin by 1973 and over the next 21 years acquired a stack of mathematics and computer science degrees at UT. On the way to becoming an artist, he spent 40 years as an applied computing research scientist, acquiring an affinity for pattern that infuses almost all his artwork. He is a prominent parks advocate in Austin. He loves his wife of 29 years and his son of almost that age, most of the people he knows, dogs, music, water, and fruit. The refractories are constructed...View all