Dustin Shuler was an American

United States

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 sculptor, best known for a 1989 piece called the Spindle

Spindle (sculpture)

Spindle was a sculpture created in 1989 by artist Dustin Shuler . It consisted of a 50 foot spike with eight cars impaled on it. From 1989 until its demolition on May 2, 2008, it was located in the car park of Cermak Plaza shopping center, at the corner of Cermak Road and Harlem Avenue in Berwyn,...

, which consisted of a 50 foot spike with eight cars impaled on it.

Shuler was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania

Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania

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, on August 17, 1948. He worked at the Westinghouse Electric Corp

Westinghouse Electric (1886)

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 factory during the day while taking night classes in art at Carnegie Institute of Technology

Carnegie Institute of Technology

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, which is now known as Carnegie Mellon University

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Shuler also unveiled "Pinned Butterfly" in 1982, in which he pinned a Cessna 150

Cessna 150

The Cessna 150 is a two-seat tricycle gear general aviation airplane, that was designed for flight training, touring and personal use.The Cessna 150 is the seventh most produced civilian plane ever, with 23,839 aircraft produced...

 to the four-story American Hotel in Los Angeles using a giant steel nail. More recently, Shuler created "Dance" in 2008 in Sarasota, Florida

Sarasota, Florida

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, in which twelve cars were placed in a cicle, with their fronts positioned towards the sky

Sky

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. He moved to southern California in 1973 to focus on his art career.

Dustin Shuler died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Inglewood, California

Inglewood, California

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, on May 4, 2010, at the age of 61. He was survived by his wife, Karen Zindler-Shuler, whom he had married in 1979; brother, Terry; and a sister, Lynn Seng.