Bop and Crazed

About the Sculpture

Bop and Crazed were created in 1980, but were loaned to the City in 2019 with help from Robert and Karen Duncan. Though the two sculptures may appear different, the only real difference is the color painted on them, with Bop painted blue and purple and Crazed painted red and yellow. The actual sculptures are identical in form, just oriented two ways. The two also differ from most of Ginnever's catalog by being painted. 

"...you have to do a little work in order to understand the piece. A lot of people don’t get that, and they will stand in front of a piece and not go around it and think they understand it. You can’t understand any of my works until you circle them. What happens is,  line becomes plane becomes line again. That’s the whole thing of it. It’s always been my intention to make it an all-the-way-around experience that keeps changing very quickly as you move around it. With one or two steps, things change visually. That’s been my whole purpose."

About the Artist

Charles Albert Ginnever was born on Aug. 28, 1931, in San Mateo, CA. His father, also named Charles, was treasurer for the City of San Mateo, and his mother, Helyne Ruth Baumgart Ginnever, was executive secretary to the director of what is now the Mills-Peninsula Medical Center. Mr. Ginnever earned an associate degree at San Mateo Junior College in 1951. After service in the National Guard, he studied in France and Italy for several years. He returned to the United States in 1955, earning a bachelor’s degree at the California Institute of Fine Arts in 1957. At Cornell, Mr. Ginnever taught art while studying for a master’s degree, which he earned in 1959. He later taught at other institutions, including, from 1967 to 1974, Windham College in Putney, where he was head of the art department.

He worked largely in steel, created large geometric forms that seem to defy gravity, and need to be walked around to fully understood or appreciated. He also has two other pieces featured in Lincoln, Dementia in Holmes Lake Park, and Shift as part of the Sheldon Art Museum sculpture collection on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. 

Additional Information

Dimensions: 5 ft. x 30 in. 

Location

1222 S 27th St., Lincoln 68502  View Map

40.799981, -96.681929

1222 S 27th St. , Lincoln 68502

1222 S 27th St. , Lincoln 68502

Bop and Crazed