Del Geist, Cracked Ice Balance at Sculpture Park

‍About Del Geist

Del Geist is an internationally recognized environmental sculptor who has been working for decades. Recently, Capital One commissioned Geist to produce Cracked Ice Balance (2025), a sculpture composed of a series of stainless-steel square tubes seemingly heaped together to support a precariously placed stone boulder. The work metaphorically addresses human-accelerated climate change, environmental instability and 18,000 years of ecological history through the lens of the “erratic” boulder–a glacially deposited rock. These rocks were carried long distances by flowing ice and then left behind when the glaciers melted and receded at the end of that glacial period. Cracked Ice Balance is on view in the Capital One Rotating Sculpture Park at Capital One Center in Tysons through 2027.

A native of North Dakota, Geist studied art and geology at North Dakota State University and New York University before earning a BFA from Arizona State University. He has completed projects in the United States, Canada, England, Germany, Papua New Guinea and South Korea. Notable art commissions include Triassic Towers (Bowfort Towers) (2017), four corten steel towers for the city of Calgary in Alberta, Canada; and Balance and Equilibrium (2014), a steel sculpture with natural elements made in collaboration with Patricia Leighton, for the city of Ulsan, South Korea. Geist’s current Cracked Ice series engages the past with a direct and pertinent focus towards the future.