Reuben Margolin creates large-scale kinetic sculptures that use pulleys and motors to create the complex movements and structures we see in nature.

Raised in Berkeley, California, Reuben’s love of maths and physics propelled him to Harvard, where he changed paths and completed a degree in English.

He then went on to study traditional painting in Italy and Russia.

In 1999 he became obsessed with the movement of a green caterpillar and set out to make wave-like sculptures inspired by its movements.

In 2004 he moved to his current studio in Emeryville and began making a series of large-scale undulating installations that attempt to combine the logic of mathematics with the sensuousness of nature.

He has after made about ten of these mechanical mobiles and shown them internationally.

Margolin is currently collaborating with Gideon Obarzanek.

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