

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.
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