Steve Roden, a multidisciplinary artist who produced abstract work in painting, sculpture, sound, installation and video, died at home in Pasadena on Wednesday.
Roden earned a 1986 BFA at Otis Art Institute, now Otis College of Art and Design, when it was located at MacArthur Park near downtown L.A. and affiliated with New York’s Parsons School of Design. He received a master’s degree from Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design in 1989.
Several bubble houses were built across the country, but the Rodens’ home is the only one that remains. Although curved walls limited functionality, a roughly thousand-square-foot house formed from air was ideal for an artist of Roden’s poetic sensibilities. Pointing to the curved, pock-marked ceiling,“It was concrete resting on a balloon being supported by air, so in the areas where there’s a little bit of disruption of the surface, you get these pockets,” he said.
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