Tyler sculptor "likes to make the ordinary extraordinary"

Whether it's a playground slide, seesaw, coffee table or billboard, Tyler School of Art sculptor Karyn Olivier likes to make the ordinary extraordinary. During her career, Olivier has connected two playground slides face to face to create a "collision" in the middle, built a 40-foot-long seesaw and challenged viewers to find a way to balance on it and created a coffee table with attached columns that rise to the ceiling. "I'm taking what's familiar and shifting the way we see it," she said. "I'm taking something exact and loosening it to make you see it in a new way."
May 6, 2011 | Salina Journal (Kansas)