Client: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum
Location: Springfield, IL, United States
Completion date: 2021
Artwork budget: $220,000
Project Team
Artist
BJ Krivanek
Krivanek+Breaux/ Art+Design
Artist
Joel Breaux
Krivanek+Breaux/ Art+Design
Public Art Agent
Illinois Capital Development Board
Client
Abrahman Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum
Overview
This sitework symbolizes and articulates Abraham Lincoln’s significance to American life and culture. The obelisk-like form is slightly tilted, to suggest human and constitutional traumas and vulnerabilities. Its materiality bridges from the industrial strength of weathered steel rooted in the land, to the impervious stainless steel of its upper form—reaching skyward. At nighttime, the artform will transform through illumination and the projection of societal ideals and issues onto the Museum walls, to become a beacon of American endurance through decades of history, that is still unfolding. Dimensions: 16’-3”W x 24’-10”H x 15’D