John Rosenbaum (September 3, 1934, Brigantine, New Jersey[1] – September 30, 2003, Alameda, California), was an American physicist, educator [2]and kinetic sculptor,[3] associated with the San Francisco Renaissance [4][5] and the counterculture of the 1960s.
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 2 Exhibitions
- 3 See also
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Biography
John Rosenbaum graduated from Cornell University[6][7] with a degree in engineering physics in 1957.[8] He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1960s. He contributed to the Harvard Project Physics textbooks.[9] He was associated with the free school movement movement in the 1960s, and was a colleague of the educator Herbert Kohl,[10] who described Rosenbaum's educational work in his books The Open Classroom[11][12] and Math, Writing & Games in the Open Classroom.[13] He designed the Xylopipes xylophone children's toy for Creative Playthings.[14] Rosenbaum created "Light Boxes",[15] kinetic sculptures using polarized light and layers of cellophane laminated between pairs of rotating glass disks, producing changing patterns and colors similar to, and on a smaller scale than, light shows projected at rock concerts in the 1960s. He was exhibited by the Landau Gallery[16] in Beverly Hills, among others.[17][18][19][20] He was a colleague of silk screen artist Arthur Okamura. He designed the original logo forHerbie Mann's Embryo Records. He died in Alameda, California of complications from Parkinson's disease in 2003.[21]
Exhibitions
- 1969 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles[16]
- 1975 Walnut Creek, California (with Arthur Okamura)[22][23]
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