DNA, 2007

Shan Shan Sheng

Chinese
Architectural Art Glass and Stainless Steel

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.