Public Art
Light touches us directly whether in the form of a sunny day or the brilliance of color. It creeps in and catch us off guard. Public art offers a new vision of a place and the opportunity to experience it freshly, perhaps like turning a corner to a new vista.
Haven (2020)
Three painted steel structure with inset glass panels. Varying heights: 17’, 12’ and 10’10”
Ten custom imaged, laminated glass panels
A grouping of three steel-framed houses supported on posts honors the migrations of peoples to what was a vast floodplain in central Texas. Drawn by water and fertile land, it also drew conflicts through time. Glass panels inspired by the region fill the sides and roof of two of the houses. The third house has a silhouette of a mockingbird whose calls, captured from its surroundings, bear witness to those who have found haven there.
Commissioned by the Arts Council of Fort Worth, Public Art Program, Fort Worth, TX
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Reflecting Time (2005)
Two sixty-five foot screens with projected video imagery and poetry.
Projected video and poetry flows in opposite directions across two 60-foot screens within the storefront windows. The doorway entrance between the two screens represents the present. Video imagery and poetry from memories flow to the left; hopes and dreams of the future flow to the right. In the paradox of time, the present is experienced simultaneously as the continuous now and as a fleeting moment caught between the past and future.
Commissioned for the Scarbrough Building, Austin, TX.
Matrix (1999)
Digital glass panels illuminated by sunlight, 12’x18’.
This library entrance glows from solar-illuminated color patterns inspired by a computer chip made up of quotations from poetry, prose and personal statements on quest, search or discovery. The texts and symbols honor the library’s role as an archive of information. The imagery patterns were inspired by the evolution of encoded information from the visual to symbols of written language and digital code.
Commissioned for the E.P. Foster Library, Ventura, CA through Ventura Art and Public Place Program.
Evidence of Time and Dual Cascade (1994)
Inverted pendulum, steel, aluminum, holographic panels, illuminated sky panel and motorize drive system, 36’.
This installation scans the sky as the earth rotates beneath it. An inverted pendulum, it marks the Entrance Plaza of the Moreno Valley Mall and sweeps slowly from north to south. Illuminated by sunlight, the spectral colors of light race up and down the sculpture’s south face with its motion.
The earth turned in her sleep and traded one surface for another.
- Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
Commissioned for the Moreno Valley Mall, Moreno Valley, CA.
Celestial Chance (1993)
Platform-steel, holographic skylight panels and paving. Lower level - ceramic tile.
This installation presents contemporary and indigenous approaches to the sky as a realm of discovery. The Chumash of Southern California believed in a mystic game of chance between the Sun and Sky Coyote as the North Star foretold the new year. The upper level pays homage to solar and celestial instruments. The Station’s lower level includes tile installations inspired by Chumash pictograms, created by collaborating tile artist, Viqui McCaslin.
Commissioned by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority for the Long Beach Boulevard Metro Station.
Falling Light (1992)
Wall mural: metal, holographic laminate; Doors: holographic film laminated to glass; Waterfall: sound installation simulating falling water.
Designed for the Phoenix Police Department, three installations create a calming atmosphere within the lobby. The mural was inspired by the silhouette of Camelback Mountains and the doors create a spectral imaging reminiscent of the sunset across the desert.
Commissioned by the Phoenix Public Art Program
Flight of Fish (1990)
Fifty steel, fish-shaped wind vanes with holographic laminate in a reflecting pool.
The wind mimics the schooling behavior of fish in motion, turning as one with the flicker of colors reflecting off their diffractive scales in the sunlight. This installation was destroyed by vandalism.
Commissioned for Oxnard Towne Center, Oxnard, CA