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Title of Piece: Art glass installation
Date of Creation: 2004
Location: St. Thomas More Chapel, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Brief Description: The stained glass windows are the most visible part of the chapel design, both artistically and functionally. In their humility and geometric simplicity the windows provide a comfortable place to meditate and worship. The 283 art glass panels are suspended in this twenty-eight-foot-high space. Silver stain on slump-molded glass creates warm golden tones. This art glass is one of the largest installations of its kind in the world. The color pattern radiates from the center behind the cross and fades as it moves outward and up. The design concept for the windows originated from photographic plates exposed in an experiment in 1936 with the splitting of the atom. This experiment represents as much the edge of a new world as Thomas' description of Utopia.
Artist Info: Glass fabricated by Derix Glass Studios. Alexander Tylevich, Artist; James Notebaart, Liturgical Consultant
Architect Info: Opus Architects and Engineers; glass fabricated by Derix Glass Studios
Photographer Info: Steven Bergerson Photography

Title of Piece: Crucifix
Date of Creation: 2004
Location: St. Thomas More Chapel, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Brief Description: The bronze crucifix portrays Christ with his hands slightly extended to the assembly, his eyes open. His death is his resurrection. A laurel victory wreath surrounds the body. This motive is also used at the entrance and inside the main portals.
Artist Info: Alexander Tylevich, Artist; James Notebaart, Liturgical Consultant
Architect Info: Opus Architects and Engineers; glass fabricated by Derix Glass Studios
Photographer Info: Steven Bergerson Photography

Title of Piece: Altar
Date of Creation: 2004
Location: St. Thomas More Chapel, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Brief Description: The granite altar is placed on an axis with the lectern, chair and tabernacle. A Greek text from the Gospel of John is inlaid in the floor, representing the language St. Thomas admired for its reference to universal truths.
Artist Info: Alexander Tylevich, Artist; James Notebaart, Liturgical Consultant
Architect Info: Opus Architects and Engineers; glass fabricated by Derix Glass Studios
Photographer Info: Steven Bergerson Photography

Title of Piece: Tabernacle
Date of Creation: 2004
Location: St. Thomas More Chapel, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Artist Info: Alexander Tylevich, Artist; James Notebaart, Liturgical Consultant
Architect Info: Opus Architects and Engineers; glass fabricated by Derix Glass Studios.
Photographer Info: Steven Bergerson Photography.

Title of Piece: Symbolic Gates
Date of Creation: 2007-2008
Location: St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Brief Description: This large wooden panel is decorated with bronze bas-reliefs of the four Evangelists writing their gospels and their associated animals. On the back of the panel a hymn on the mystery of Christ.
Artist Info: Alexander Tylevich, Sculptor. Fr. James Notebaart, Liturgical Designer
Photographer Info: Photo by Elias Adams. Submitted by John Bergstrom, Hillstream LLC

Title of Piece: Symbolic Gates
Date of Creation: 2007-2008
Location: St. Thomas Chapel, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota
Brief Description: This large panel is referred to as Symbolic Gates. It is decorated with bronze bas-reliefs of the four Evangelists writing their gospels accompanied by their associated animals. On the back of the panel is a hymn about the mystery of Christ.
Artist Info: Alexander Tylevich, Sculptor. Fr. James Notebaart, Liturgical Designer
Photographer Info: Photo by Elias Adams. Submitted by John Bergstrom, Hillstream LLC

Title of Piece: Crucifix
Date of Creation: 2007-2008
Location: St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Brief Description: Tylevich created a new crucifix in bronze and dichroic glass, suspended from the ceiling over the altar. The corpus is seven feet-four in height. The wreath encircling above is made from bronze, steel and dichroic glass. Developed by NASA dichroic glass has the property of changing color when viewed from various angles.
Artist Info: Alexander Tylevich, sculptor; Fr. James Nootebaart, Liturgical Consultant
Photographer Info: Photo by Elias Adams; Provided by John Bergstrom, Hillstream LLC

Title of Piece: Madonna and Child
Date of Creation: 1999
Location: Church of St. Mary, Alexandria, Minnesota
Brief Description: Bronze, resting on a granite base. Background in gold leaf, sixteen feet high
Artist Info: Artist: Alexander Tylevich; Liturgical Consultant: Brother Frank Kacmarcik.
Photographer Info: Submitted by John Bergstrom, Hillstream LLC

Title of Piece: Madonna and Child
Date of Creation: 1999-2000
Location: Mepkin Abbey, Monks Corner, South Carolina
Brief Description: Bronze and granite, life-size.
Artist Info: Artist: Alexander Tylevich; Liturgical Consultant: Brother Frank Kacmarcik
Photographer Info: Submitted by John Bergstrom, Hillstream LLC

Title of Piece: Tree of Life
Date of Creation: 1992
Location: The Meditation Place, Fairview-University Health Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Brief Description: Brass, Bronze, granite; 8ft high; Tree of Life, is a sculptural fountain for the hospitals interfaith Meditation Place. It is designed to embrace many faiths, traditions and beliefs because the Tree of Life is an important symbol in almost every religion. "In creating the sculpture I introduced additional connections. Apropos of a medical institution, the tree trunk transforms into a double helix of DNA. At the base of the helix is a fig leaf and a seed pod, the traditional symbol of Buddha. The trunk spirals up in streams of life forms - leaves, sticks, flowers, snails, fish, and birds (over a hundred different images) all surging upward. The tree grows from a fountain that spills into a pool cut from a granite cube, and the running water is a calming sound."
Artist Info: Alexander Tylevich, Sculptor. Fr. James Notebaart, Liturgical Designer.
Architect Info: Rafferty, Rafferty Tollefson, Architects.
Photographer Info: Submitted by John Bergstrom, Hillstream LLC