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William P. Reimann
Sculptor and Educator

I've included a sampling of works by my father because his work has influenced the development of my own. Dad's work is characterized by being labor intensive without necessarily appearing labor intensive (i.e., its visual appeal is not about aggrandizing hard work that has been put into each piece). His most important work uses Plexiglas and stainless steel (I've included two examples of this work), and, more recently, large scale granite and slate panels, but it is his smaller scale works in wood and metal that have been my personal favorites. A peek back into his high school notebooks reveals all sorts of dragons and monsters and strange inventive drawings.

Harvard University's Visual and Environmental Studies Department recently put up a page for William Reimann on their server--currently, it features a single photo of one of his big Plexiglas and steel commissions.

A more comprehensive archive of his sculpture has been set up at the William Reimann website. This is quite a complete site, with high quality images, and it renders this page (other than its irreverent tone) obsolete.

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Piers Park Pavilion
East Boston, MA. 		This major public commission was completed in the Fall of 1997. It is comprised of twenty four granite panels incised with designs that represent the some fifty ethnicities that make up East Boston's population. Notice: the quality of the jpegs on this page is poor. This will be corrected in a future update of this page. For better images, see Dad's Piers Park website.
brass crab
Brass Crab
Private Collection 		This piece was commissioned by the children of a mother whose birthdate was in June (pointing out the obvious, her astrological sign was 'Cancer'. It has three hundred plus individual pieces, all of which (except for the screws that hold it together) were hand cut from a flat sheet of brass and then hand-hammered into shape. Dad says that if he ever does a piece like this again, he will see if he can get a laser cutter to do the saw-work.
stone bollard
Norse patterned granite bollard
Private Commission 		On this one, the owners of the hotel that commissioned the work were themselves Scandinavian, and they wanted a piece of art that would reflect their ethnic origins.
large sculpture in atrium
Suspended Plexigas & Steel Sculpture
Tropicana Corporation
Bradenton, Florida 		This piece measures 24' by 19' by 16' high. Like many of Dad's commissions, it was a huge around-the-clock effort to install.
plexi sculpture
Suspended Plexigas & Steel Sculpture
Chemshares Corp.
Houston, TX. 		This work is part of a series inspired by shells and other curving forms found in nature.
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