TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER
DNA
2007
SHAN SHAN SHENG (CHINESE)
Architectural Art Glass and Stainless Steel
Physicians Medical Pavilion
Sheng created two independent, yet complimentary works of
art for TTUHSC. The first work, fabricated in architectural art
glass, creates a cohesive composition as it stretches up four
floors of the building’s north elevator lobbies. The artist layered
loosely painted fields of color in blues and reds alongside a
contrasting, hard-edged, ladder-like structure that recalls the
DNA molecule and its protein rungs (C-G, A-T). This famed
helical structure is repeated in Sheng’s second work, the three-
dimensional suspension sculpture that she created for the
patient reception lobbies.
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