Zach’s Tower

2000
26’H x 14’W x 12’D
Painted Steel

At twenty-five feet in height, Zach’s Tower is the smallest of it’s generation of large-scale works and the first of that group to begin construction in 1999 at John Henry’s Kentucky studio. Finished at the Chattanooga studio, Zach’s Tower was included in the New Monuments exhibition at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, Missouri.

Seemingly dwarfed by its commanding larger sibling, Tatlin’s Sentinel, Zach’s Tower offers John Henry a scale with which to explore the idea of a single work offering varying experiences depending on vantage point. From the windows of a high rise, the upper portion of the work reflects a calculatedly different experience than from within the architecture-like walls of the work’s lower structure.

Following the Laumeier exhibition, Zach’s Tower was shown in a sculpture park in Kansas City, the 2007 Venice Open 10, Art St. Urban in Switzerland and the Sculpture for New Orleans Exhibition.