Working on my public art commission with the help of a family-owned machine shop, I witnessed a young father teaching his 5 or 6-year-old daughter how to Tungsten-electrode, Inert Gas (TIG) weld steel. It is not easy to handle “the magic wand” of a TIG torch. The TIG uses a high frequency electric arc, glowing …
My new public art installation opened August 4, 2017 at the Los Alamos County Community Building on the golf course. The work titled “Carry the Light” was created with Plexiglas and Dichroic Film in panels that are suspended from the ceiling with stainless steel aircraft cable. When sunlight hits the Dichroic Plexiglas panels, they reflect …
Los Alamos Monitor Online By Tris DeRoma; Friday, August 4, 2017 ‘Carry the Light’ opens at golf course Color and light have always been the tools of the artist, and at least with some sciences, the scientist also. Artist Doug Czor’s Plexiglas and dichroic film sculpture is now on display at the Los Alamos Golf Course. …
The Bernalillo County (New Mexico) Seal The History That Constitutes Its Creation and Design by Doug Czor, Artist and Sculptor, July, 2013 In March of 1999, I received the commission to create two, 6-foot-in-diameter, cast bronze, Bernalillo County emblems. I realized that the large size of the various design elements would allow me to create …
By Doug Czor, Images from Doug Czor’s Art Notebook #1 During the early 1970s, Historical Geology classes in the School of Geology, University of Minnesota, forever changed my perspective on hope for the survival of humanity. The study of Geology is like reading the great history book of planet Earth. Each layer of sediment or …
Evolution of an Idea: “Reaching For the Stars”
The Spirit of Humanity Art & Science Exhibition of 1987: Art is one great rhapsody for humanity. The gift to us all of artistic ability may be one of the most important talents known. For, Art is both the doorway through massive cultural walls, and the treasure map through our self-created labyrinth onto the green …