Join The Collection to save, track, and explore works like this.

Delos Van Earl — Dancing Rhino
Delos Van Earl — Dancing Rhino
Delos Van Earl

Dancing Rhino

2025

A bold turquoise steel form rises from an orange base, its silhouette suggesting a stylized quadruped or creature rendered in simplified, almost totemic geometry. The sculpture is painted in vibrant oil enamel, with saturated turquoise dominating the body, accented by orange geometric shapes that suggest fins or limbs and a red circular eye that activates the composition. The steel's surface catches light distinctly, revealing the sculptural depth and three dimensional modeling characteristic of Van Earl's constructed animal forms. Orange and red punctuate the turquoise ground, creating graphic visual rhythm across the modernist abstraction of what may be interpreted as a rhinoceros, horse, or purely invented creature. The work exemplifies the artist's practice of infusing playful expressionism into reductive steel forms through vivid, saturated color.

Medium
oil enamel on steel
Spotted At
Studio · Delos Van Earl Studios

Notes

From Delos Van Earl's CREATURES series, oil-enamel-on-steel sculptures of stylized animals and totemic forms. Catalog: https://delosvanearlstudios.com/section/526465-CREATURES.html.

Start the Discussion

Request access to join the discussion

About this work

Delos Van Earl, Dancing Rhino, 2025

A bold turquoise steel form rises from an orange base, its silhouette suggesting a stylized quadruped or creature rendered in simplified, almost totemic geometry. The sculpture is painted in vibrant oil enamel, with saturated turquoise dominating the body, accented by orange geometric shapes that suggest fins or limbs and a red circular eye that activates the composition. The steel's surface catches light distinctly, revealing the sculptural depth and three dimensional modeling characteristic of Van Earl's constructed animal forms. Orange and red punctuate the turquoise ground, creating graphic visual rhythm across the modernist abstraction of what may be interpreted as a rhinoceros, horse, or purely invented creature. The work exemplifies the artist's practice of infusing playful expressionism into reductive steel forms through vivid, saturated color.

Medium
oil enamel on steel
Year
2025

Related themes

Animal Form, Geometric Animal, Constructive Sculpture, Abstract Animal, Color Field Sculpture, Steel Sculpture, Playful Form, Modernist Sculpture, American Contemporary, Orange Accent, Contemporary Sculpture, Stylized Creature, Three Dimensional Form, Painted Steel, Oil Enamel Paint, Red Accent, Turquoise Color, Vibrant Color, Totemic Art, Expressive Sculpture

More works by Delos Van Earl

Collected by

Lisa Rembrandt, Sarah Greenspan