RHOADS, George

As a painter incidentally skilled at fixing watches, Rhoads began in the 1970s to create kinetic sculptures that use a minimum of technology by mostly depending upon gravity for their effects. Rhoads typically uses a motor to bring a single kind of ball (billiard balls, golf balls, etc.) to the top of a structure. The balls flow randomly down one of several available paths, customarily hitting a succession of noisemakers and moving parts until they reach a bottom level, from which...