DNA, 2007
Shan Shan Sheng
Chinese
Architectural Art Glass and Stainless Steel
Chinese
Architectural Art Glass and Stainless Steel
Lubbock Campus, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Physicians Medical Pavilion
Main lobby entrance
Sheng created two independent, yet complementary works of art for TTUHSC. The first work, fabricated in architectural art glass, creates a cohesive composition as it stretches up four floors of the building’s north elevator lobbies. The artist layered loosely painted fields of color in blues and reds alongside a contrasting, hard-edged, ladder-like structure that recalls the DNA molecule and its protein rungs (C-G, A-T). This famed helical structure is repeated in Sheng’s second work, the three-dimensional suspension sculpture that she created for the patient reception lobbies.