Showing posts with label public art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public art. Show all posts

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Artists + Work




Duets on Ice
1972
Laurie Anderson



This piece was performed in the
sweltering heat of summer in Genoa,
Italy. Anderson wore ice skates imbedded
in blocks of ice. The piece ended when
the ice melted. Also this year (1972),
Anderson obtained an MFA in Sculpture
from Columbia University.

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Artists + Work



Project for Arkansas River,
State of Colorado (August 2014)

Chief Engineer and Director
of Construction: Vince Davenport
Project Director: Jonita Davenport
 

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Artists + Work






 

 

 

 

 

 

Endless Column

1918

Constantin Brancusi

version 1

oak, 6' 8" x 9 7/8" x 9 5/8"

 

MoMA Collection

 




Endless Column

1938

Constantin Brancusi


Targu Jiu, Romania

cast iron and steel, 98 ft. high

 

The Column of the Infinite (Coloana infinitului) stacks

17 rhomboidal modules, with a half-unit at the top.

 

"Endless Column Restored" by Alexandra Parigoris

Sculpture Magazine, 21.1, Jan./Feb. 2002

 

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Artists + Work



 
then...


1972

Alice Aycock

wood
32’ diameter x 6’ high

Gibney Farm near
New Kingston, Pennsylvania










and now...


2011

Alice Aycock

aluminum
90" x 106" x 22"

Monday, January 2, 2012

Artists + Work



















Non-Sign II
2010
Lead Pencil Studio
artists Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo
stainless steel rods
Blaine, Washington


Funded by the U.S. government’s Art in Architecture program
Image retrieved from Lawrimore Project

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Artists + Work















Exposure
2010
galvanised steel
25.64 x 13.25 x 18.47 m

The 6th Flevoland Landscape Artwork
Permanent installation, Lelystad, The Netherlands
Photograph by Allard Bovenberg, Amsterda
m

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Artists + Work



Perimeters / Pavilions / Decoys
1977-1978 
three tower-like structures,
two semi-circular mounds,
and an underground courtyard
with inaccessible spaces

Four acre installation
Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts
Roslyn, New York

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Artists + Work

Agora
2005-2006
Iron / 106 figures 285-295 x 95-100 x 135-145 cm
Permanent installation in Grant Park, Chicago

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Artists + Work








Cedar and graphite
7' 6" x 15' 6" x 6'
Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture
Current exhibition at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
May 29, 2011 - Aug 28, 2011

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Artists + Work


Views Through a Sand Dune, 1972
Narragansett Beach

Holt is most widely known for her large-scale environmental works,
Sun Tunnels and Dark Star Park.  She was born in Worcester, grew
up in New Jersey, and was married to Robert Smithson.

(This is the video project from 1974 with Richard Serra, Boomerang,
mentioned during the deCordova trip April 2.)