BOING!

Taking a shape like a children's pop-up book, CIA graduate Michael Grucza's humor and interest in children's drawings shines through magnificently. The red, white, and black BOING! stands nearly 6 feet tall, with two cuts out of each "page" that coil into pressed spirals. The viewer can squeeze around and through the holes the spirals leave. The three solid colors on different sides of the sculpture leave the viewer with a completely different image depending on the angle from which they view the piece. The steel construction pressed into a tight spring fills the sculpture with an energy that is ready to burst.

Grucza has stated that he is interested in capturing and creating wonder with his work, using fun shapes, unconventional lines, and industrial material in unique ways. He believes that fun and humor in art, though light, can still draw something profound out of every viewer.