David Edgar
American, born 1948Caught Up in the Limelight, n.d.
Not on view
Bronze and steel
Dimensions20 × 20 in. (50.8 × 50.8 cm)
Gift of Dr. Robert and Deanna Harris Burger, 2005.45
David Edgar lives in the Carolina Foothills where he is a full time artist retired from the Art Department at UNC Charlotte. A third-generation Floridian, David worked as an Imagineer on the EPCOT Center and Tokyo Disneyland projects for the Walt Disney World Company. While earning his MFA in sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Edgar worked as a preservation technician in the conservation department of the Henry Ford Museum. He also holds a BFA in Sculpture from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
For over thirty years David’s artwork primarily focused on formal constructivist sculpture in fabricated steel, such as this work. In 2004, Edgar began to make artwork out of empty detergent bottles, which he continues to this day, advocating for working with post-consumer recyclable plastics.
