Christy Rupp (b. 1949)

…An equally airy, zany and tragic structure is the catchily titled Runaway Factories Become a Bobsled‒Rust Belt, which has the graceful intricacy of a Nancy Graves, plus content. (The belt moves, and the factories turn into a bobsled with no brakes.) In Unsolid States ‒ Sub Machine Culture which could be about the Third World or about Flint, Michigan, the guy lucky enough to get a job is impaled on the machine while a little sports car leaves the scene of the crime like a local dictator or corporate oligarch. —Lucy R. Lippard, "Christy Rupp: Natural History Meets Coney Island and the Sandinistas," Natural Selection: Sculpture by Christy Rupp. (Buffalo, NY: Burchfield Art Center, 1990): [11].