Ian Petroni
Gallery

Twenty-five years of it,
in no particular order.

Parades, lanterns, puppets, stages, back gardens and one front lawn. If you would rather read about any of it, the projects are listed the way they were built.

Three giant dandelion seedhead sculptures on tall stems against a deep blue sky, a sprinkler throwing water beneath them.
A large red squid sculpture riding a wheeled float down a street lined with a seated crowd.
A paper lantern shaped like a flame glowing orange inside a canopy of translucent paper leaves.
A child walking through a room-sized installation of painted cardboard waves and cut paper.
A single giant dandelion seedhead sculpture on a tall stem, photographed from below against a bright blue sky.
A sculptural tree hung with dozens of glowing bulbs on a darkened stage, two performers standing beneath it.
A blue shark sculpture cresting a wave on a parade float, with people gathered along the street behind it.
A wall-mounted branch sculpture carrying several illuminated blossom-shaped shades.
Two giant illuminated dandelion sculptures at dusk beside water, the Cleveland skyline behind them.
Two people in striped costumes wheeling a float carrying tall blue sculptural forms down a parade route.
A hanging light fixture built from copper-coloured metal fronds, lit from within.
A delighted child standing inside the mouth of a large white painted sculpture, reaching out.
Giant dandelion sculptures standing in a snow-covered field under a grey winter sky.
A sculpture of a pale moth or leaf form mounted on rods against a warm gallery wall.
A tall lighthouse sculpture on wheels being walked along a parade route past a seated crowd.
A large paper flower lantern glowing from the inside, its petals translucent against a dark background.
Tall pale sculptural blades planted across the front lawn of a wooden house on an ordinary street.
An assembled figure made from salvaged brass and tin vessels, standing on a patterned floor.
A performer lit in green inside a translucent sculptural creature, watched by a child in silhouette.
A cluster of shell-shaped paper lanterns glowing along a black branch armature.
Two illuminated dandelion sculptures at twilight beside a lake, their lights reflected in the water.
A close detail of a copper pipe fixture with small painted fish forms swimming along the wall beside it.
Glowing orange paper forms suspended from a ceiling, lit from inside.
A white dandelion seedhead sculpture standing among trees in a park.

Every photograph here is Ian’s own. Press photographs of his work belong to the photographers who made them and are not reproduced. Those are linked out instead.

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