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This is Elizabeth Berrian's first corporate art project, from 1981. It provided the breakthrough that allowed her to give up the day job and become a full time, professional wire sculptor.
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Liberty House Stops Traffic with Flying Wire Horses
Visual Merchandising Magazine, 4/82:
The "Wings of Wonder" at Liberty House describes its shimmering equine deity, seems to have descended from the heavens in this, one of a series of Christmas windows - strewing gifts in a plethoric stream of "diamond dust". Yet Pegasus in all its plumage bears no color of its own, rather reflecting the jewel-toned merchandise through the aid of mysetical cross-beams of light. Six shadow box windows in the series hinted at the main theme with a solitary wing placed above gift-enclosing acrylic boxes. Horse Sculpture: Elizabeth Berrian, Oakland; Acrylic boxes (custom): Design concepts; Mannequins: Adel Rootstein. Visual Merchandising Director: Rit Pierce
Liberty House commissioned Elizabeth to create three flying horses, six extra wings, a horse head with trailing wires, and lots of wire trimmings for their Christmas windows.
When the Pegasus windows were unveiled, the San Francisco Police department became involved. Chrsitmas shoppers jammed the sidewalk in front of the Pegasus windows and overflowed into the street, blocking traffic. A traffic control officer was called in to keep things moving.
James F. "Buddy" Thompson, retiring chairman of the Louisville International Airport, discovered Elizabeth Berrien's wire sculpture at Gump's in San Francisco. He commissioned her to create a more monumental Pegasus whch became Louisville's landmark Airport Pegasus .
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