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Ridgewing Guitar, Serial No. 4

2015
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 199
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.
Originally patterned after the wing of a dragonfly, the Ridgewing guitar’s delicate carbon-fiber tracery conjures up networks of veins, arteries, and capillaries. The instrument’s special lighting effects can be programmed to pulse like a beating heart, blurring the boundaries between instrument and body, sight and sound.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Ridgewing Guitar, Serial No. 4
  • Maker: Ridgewing Inc. (American, born 2012)
  • Date: 2015
  • Medium: Investment-cast aluminum body frames; carbon-fiber grilles; rosewood fingerboard; composite neck; self-tuning headstock; under-saddle piezo pickup; integrated preamp; LED light-show system
  • Dimensions: 40 x 15 x 3 in.
  • Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
  • Credit Line: Collection of David and Bryn Stuart. Light show kit by original Ridgewing craftsmen Nathan Burnell and Scott Lumsden.
  • Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments

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