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In 1968, Beasley began investigating the use of transparency as a sculptural medium. He was successful in creating small transparent sculptures in cast acrylic but experts at Dupont and Rohm & Hass were convinced that it was impossible to do castings as large as
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In 1987, he turned to a new direction of work involving cube-like intersecting polyhedra. While most of these were made in cast or fabricated bronze, he also created them in carved granite. This work has been exhibited worldwide in more than 100 exhibitions in Europe and Asia. Public commissions for
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In 1961, while a student at
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at the New York, Museum of Modern Art a piece which appeared in an exhibition which Philip
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Fascinated by the esthetics of transparency, Beasley worked in cast acrylic for the next ten years. In 1974, members of the undersea research community approached
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generation of abstract sculptors. Today, Beasley is recognised as one of the most noteworthy and innovative sculptors on the
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