Throughout his career, Mark Gibian has explored what he terms “calligraphy in space” in a range of materials and scales. He has produced kinetic sculpture, functional objects, and monumentally proportioned, site-specific public art commissions such as the serpentine metal shelters and benches installed in New York City’s Hudson River Park.

Corona is from a series of sculptures in metal and slumped glass that the artist began in 1989. Its skeletal form, which protrudes from the wall, is abstract yet evokes the organic or biological. Gibian created Corona in four sections that he calls “petals,” relating the piece to a flowering plant.