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...