FORT WAYBE, IN -- The Fort Wayne Museum of Art has broken ground on the site for its next major addition to its permanent collection, a stone sculpture by the artist Darrell Petit, an international figure based in Connecticut whose work is included in public and private collections across the globe. The sculpture will be installed on June 8, 2016.
The 25-ton sculpture, entitled Continuum, will be placed on the south patio of FWMoA, which faces Main Street. It was created from a block of granite and features rough edges that contrast with a smooth, curving center. Its graceful but commanding minimalist form is closely related to the natural world and its many forms. Peter Selz, the noted art historian, has said that Petit's sculpture "animates the environments of nature and the post minimalist context that contemporary sculpture now inhabits."