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Telling Stories: Gordon Huether’s Large-Scale Installations Tackle Time, Space and Identity
If you are fortunate enough to find yourself stuck in traffic with Gordon Huether, your very perception of time and space may just be altered. “Everyone has sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic,” the sculptor says by way of explaining his fascination with nature’s effect on man-made objects. “Maybe at some point you’re behind a beat-up old truck. And maybe it has stains and rust patterns on it.” Or take for example the weeds pushing up a poured sidewalk, he continues, or bird droppings splattered along an exterior wall. “Humanity is so preoccupied with making things, manipulating things,” he says. “But nature has a way of taking things back.”
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Form, Flow, and Essence: Rosetta’s Bronze Animal Sculptures Capture Grace in Motion
Years before she cast her bronze animal sculptures, Rosetta had been honing the “stylized realism” that characterizes her work. A… Read More
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Collaborating with Nature & Science: The Eco-Art of Stacy Levy
“I think art can play a much bigger role in solving environmental issues,” says Stacy Levy, whose eco-art harnesses the natural forces of rainwater, plant roots, and microbes to help tell the “ecological story” of a site and create solutions for storm-water and water pollution issues.
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Bronze Sculptor Jean Jacques Porret’s Intuitive Approach
Most of Jean Jacques Porret’s abstract contemporary sculptures begin with a simple sketch, even sometimes just a scribble. If the… Read More
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Many Parts Create a Whole: Susan Wink on Engaging a Community in Interactive Public Art
Don’t be surprised if you find Susan Wink hosting an open meeting or free workshop if she designs public art… Read More
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Datascapes and Discovery: The Art of Jonathan Spring
Using data—and being used by it—has become a pervasive and essential part of our daily lives and the accepted way… Read More
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Piecing it Together: The Singular Sculpture & Career of Linda Leviton
If there's a current that runs through the career of metal sculptor Linda Leviton it's that she seeks harmony in the combination of opposites. From her early days as a graphic designer to her present, well-established career as a professional artist with hundreds of national commissions, collections, and awards under her belt, Leviton has created works where visual tension resolves into a harmonious whole.
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The Art-Filled Spaces of Wagner Murray Architects
“All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.” –Norman Maclean, A… Read More
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Bringing Value to Light: The Impact of Public Light Projects
When it comes to light, we humans are not so different from the idiomatic moth. The energy for all living… Read More
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Redefining the Public Artist: Franz Mayer of Munich Architectural Glass and Mosaics
In the heart of Bavaria’s capital city lies the Kunstareal, the museum quarter, home to some of Germany’s most famous… Read More