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Nick Schmiedeler
"Tridentia Kinetica"
100% recycled metal parts, ping-pong balls
48 x 60 x 36 inches
2012
$325
A completely kinetic piece; all three arms move on springs, and each individual item spins also.
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Born and raised in Prairie Village, Kansas, Nick attended Rockhurst High School, Kansas State
University, and then Avila University where he received a Bachelor in Nursing in 1995. Upon
moving to Lawrence in 1995, Nick and his wife bought a 19th Century Craftsman-style house in
Old West Lawrence, where a rustic, folk art environment has been created.
With the help of son Cooper and daughter Goldie, he often frequents the local salvage and scrap
metal yards - along with local alleys, nature trails, and river banks - in search
of natural,
discarded, and recycled materials to create indoor and outdoor sculptures.
Nick joined the Lawrence Art Guild in 2007 and began showing sculptures immediately;
established his art website, Vollskulptur.com, in 2010; and recently had his home featured on an
HGTV episode of 'Home Strange Home.' He has also displayed and sold his sculptures all over the
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Nick Schmiedeler
"Gigantor Bottle Tree"
100% recycled metal materials*
96 x 60 x 60 inches
2013
$450
*Rebar, industrial ring stand, farm weather vane (on top)
and a discarded film screen metal tube from the KU Union
(the tree trunk). "Gigantor" has 84 rebar branches to hold
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Nick Schmiedeler
"Sweep Tree Casa"
100% recycled metals and wood*
84 x 48 x 48 inches
2011
$475
*Rebar, springs, street-sweeper brushes and wooden
birdhouse. This tree was based on old jet-age rocket-ship
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