Rocket Sculpture by Hubert Phipps Selected for Art in Public Places Program at Boca Raton Innovation Campus

Photography by on September 20th, 2021 in Lifestyle

Boca Raton, FL – September 20, 2021 – The monumental new sculpture Rocket by Hubert Phipps has been selected for an Art in Public Places initiative in South Florida, at the Boca Raton Innovation Campus (BRiC), the historic tech landmark where the first IBM Personal Computer was invented. This new public art program is part of a cultural partnership between the Boca Raton Museum of Art and CP Group, the owner of BRiC and a premier developer and operator of commercial real estate. South Florida officials heralded this announcement with an unveiling ceremony at BRiC, officially welcoming Rocket as one of the largest outdoor sculptures ever chosen for a public art initiative in Palm Beach County. The Phipps sculpture is valued at $1.5 million, stands 30-feet tall, weighs 9.8 tons, and took more than 7,000 square feet of stainless steel to construct. The Rocket sculpture towers alongside a waterfront panorama of iconic architecture designed by Marcel Breuer in the 1960s. This celebrated architectural style by Breuer is rarely seen at this grand of a scale, spanning so many acres. The new sculpture by Phipps and the historic buildings designed by Breuer marry each other well in the Brutalist style, creating a powerful visual impact.

“The sculpture by Hubert Phipps was conceived as that intersection between art and science, and celebrates the heroics of modern engineering, as also seen in Marcel Breuer’s historic building designs for IBM’s North American Research and Development Headquarters,” said Irvin Lippman, the Executive Director of the Boca Raton Museum of Art. The gleaming, stainless steel reflecting Rocket was two years in the making, with a nod to Sci Fi retro futurism. The Campus encourages visitors to walk around and underneath it, to enjoy their funhouse mirror images on the shiny surface.

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Andy Thomson, Andrea Levine O’Rourke, Jody Harrison Grass, Irvin Lippman, Hubert Phipps, Troy McLellan, Giana Pacinelli, Monica Mayotte, & Yvette Drucker

Jody Harrison Grass, Irvin Lippman, Hubert Phipps, Troy McLellan, & Giana Pacinelli

Hubert Phipps

Hubert Phipps & Giana Pacinelli

Hubert Phipps & Andrea Levine O’Rourke

Hubert Phipps, Andrea Levine O’Rourke, & Giana Pacinelli

Hubert Phipps & Andrea Levine O’Rourke

Irvin Lippman, Hubert Phipps, & Jody Harrison Grass

Hubert Phipps

Andrea Levine O’Rourke

Jody Harrison Grass, Irvin Lippman, & Hubert Phipps

Yvette Drucker, Monica Mayotte, Hubert Phipps, Andrea Levine O’Rourke, & Andy Thomson

Monica Mayotte, Andrea Levine O’Rourke, Yvette Drucker, & Andy Thomson

Giana Pacinelli, Monica Mayotte, Jody Harrison Grass, Irvin Lippman, Hubert Phipps, Andrea Levine O’Rourke, Yvette Drucker, & Andy Thomson

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