Crystal Bridges Acquires Congruence for Its Permanent Collection

BENTONVILLE, ARKANSAS — Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art acquired Congruence by HYBYCOZO into its permanent collection in November 2025. The museum commissioned the work in 2023 for the Sky Terrace above Campus Parking.

Congruence stands twenty-one feet. Twelve truncated octahedrons stack into a central tower, with four further forms placed separately on the deck. The truncated octahedron is a fourteen-faced solid that packs in three dimensions without leaving gaps, and the stacked arrangement follows fluorite, a mineral that grows upward in interlocking cubes.

The work is powder-coated stainless steel with internal LED lighting, twenty-one by twelve by twelve feet.

About HYBYCOZO

Work by HYBYCOZO, the Los Angeles studio of Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk, is held in museum collections including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University. The studio has exhibited at the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, the Oakland Museum of California and the Cincinnati Art Museum. Its illuminated steel sculptures are built for permanent outdoor installation.