Sculptures
Falkenstein’s sculptural forms were often concerned with contradiction: external and internal, continuity and disjunction, solidity and fluidity. Her works transformed line into structure, creating complex networks that seem to expand beyond their physical limits and into the surrounding environment. Across a wide range of materials and scales, she sought to visualize systems of perpetual movement, growth, and interconnection.
Form, 1939. Glazed ceramic, 5 1/4 × 9 1/4 × 7 3/4 in. (13.3 × 23.5 × 19.7 cm)
Vigilante Victim II, 1940. Carved and painted redwood, 66 × 24 × 12 in. (167.6 × 61 × 30.5 cm)
Set Structure (Rotating), 1942. Band saw–cut mahogany, 16 1/2 × 11 1/2 × 3 in. (41.9 × 29.2 × 7.6 cm)
Set Rotation, 1944–45. Wood and sisal rope, 35 1/4 × 61 1/2 × 4 in. (89.5 × 156.2 × 10.2 cm)
Sun #4, 1954. Brazed iron, glass, and sheet metal with paint, 13 3/4 × 30 3/4 × 8 1/4 in. (34.9 × 78.1 × 21 cm)
Portrait of Michel Tapié, 1955. Metal and glass, 14 × 10 × 6 1/2 in. (35.6 × 25.4 × 16.51 cm)
Sun #14, 1958. Copper, 40 1/4 × 34 × 61 in. (102.2 × 86.4 × 154.9 cm)
Model for garden gates, 1961. Painted copper wire and glass, 17 1/2 × 14 1/2 × 1 in. (44.5 × 36.8 × 2.5 cm). Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Gift of Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim, 64.317
Untitled (Fusion), c. 1965. Copper and glass, 9 1/4 × 16 3/4 × 8 1/4 in. (23.5 × 42.5 × 21 cm)
Predator, 1963–64. Shopping cart with steel wire and brazed enamel paint, 69 1/2 × 87 × 34 1/2 in. (176.5 × 221 × 87.6 cm)
Point as a Set, c. 1965. Copper and glass, 21 × 21 × 21 in. (53.3 × 53.3 × 53.3 cm)
Window model for St. Basil Catholic Church, Los Angeles, 1966. Metal, colored plastic, tape, and labels, 85 3/4 × 19 3/4 × 9 in. (217.8 × 50.2 × 22.9 cm). Photo by Elon Schoenholz Photography
Corona, 1971. Brazed copper and fused glass, 8 1/4 × 12 1/4 × 7 1/2 in. (21.0 × 31.1 × 19.0 cm). Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David K. Anderson, Martha Jackson Memorial Collection, 1981.109.8
Flora (Topology), 1973. Bronze with kinetic motor, 48 × 60 × 36 in. (121.9 × 152.4 × 91.4 cm)
Untitled (Topological Form), c. 1976. Aluminum, 8 × 14 × 9 1/2 in. (20.3 × 35.6 × 24.1 cm)