Red welded steel, 45 feet tall and 14 tons, Galaxy by Alexander Liberman fills the plaza outside Leadership Square. Up close you realize this is not a monument but a large, abstract, geometric construction of welded steel: about 45 feet tall and 27 feet wide, painted a vivid red and weighing 14 tons. Hands of steel fold and intersect in ways that read differently as you move around it.
The work was commissioned by art advisor Sharon Corgan Leeber of Architectural Arts Company for her client, Leadership Properties, Inc., and was built at Liberman's studio in Connecticut. It arrived here in three pieces, assembled on site — a gesture that makes its welded seams and joins part of the story. Liberman himself visited Oklahoma City to present the maquette and to take part in the unveiling, so this plaza still carries the memory of that reveal.
The Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture! program surveyed the piece in 1994, noting its place in the city's public art. Notice the welded seams where fourteen tons of steel arrived in three pieces and were assembled right here.