George Rickey was an American sculptor raised in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied
painting in Paris, but moved back to the US in 1934. Rickey continued to paint, but
also became interested in sculpture, producing small mobiles resembling the work of
Alexander Calder. Highly influenced by Constructivist theories, Rickey later focused on
kinetic art, and deserted painting altogether.4
George Rickey liked to describe his work as “drawings in space.” Rickey’s trapezoidal
forms are an elegant expression of geometry in motion. The hard-edged form of each
trapezoid contrasts the fluid, sweeping gesture of the movement. Weights located in
the bottom of each trapezoid return the forms to their upright position whenever wind
initiated movement comes to a rest.