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Jeff Tangen

Port Townsend, Washington, United States

Jeff Tangen is a metal sculptor associated with Port Townsend, Washington, whose work transforms discarded tools, machine parts and lenses into playful forms. Price Sculpture Forest presents Playa Flowers, combining flower pods previously shown at Burning Man with a separately made centerpiece. Its account identifies railroad light lenses and mainframe-computer disks among the materials, and describes the assembled work responding to light through the forest canopy. Burning Man’s 2022 archive credits Tangen with Disciples of the Dust for Pipe Dreams, an installation described with a bronze pipe, perforated dome, rotating screens and a zoetrope. His 2025 entry, Don’t Pick the Flowers, uses bright colors, reflective surfaces and illuminated flower forms. The forest installation and event entries have distinct documentation; their dates should not be treated as interchangeable.

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Representative artist / studio imageImage: sculptureforest.org ↗Copyright © Price Sculpture Forest, a Washington nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization (as credited at source)

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Practice
metal sculpture, found-object assemblage, installation
Based in
Port Townsend, Washington, United States
Profile
individual
Project participation
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Jeff Tangen is based in Port Townsend, Washington, United States. Documented disciplines include metal sculpture, found-object assemblage, installation.

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