When I got this commission from the County of Sacramento and the Sacramento Airport, they requested a house—something consistent with my many previous house-shaped sculptures and installations. I began by conducting research, reading the letters of those who came to California during the Gold Rush.
Art in Airports
Art in Airports
Mirror Networks: A Conversation with Ellen Harvey
Born in Britain, Ellen Harvey lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been included in the Whitney Biennial and exhibited at numerous institutions, including the Barnes Foundation, the Corcoran Museum of Art, and the Bass Museum.
Adriana Carvalho
MIAMI Miami International Airport On Concourse E, mia Central Gallery recently installed “Objet petit a,” which served as a mini-retrospective of Adriana Carvalho’s three-dimensional pieces.
Make Your Own Trail: A Conversation with Richard Wilson
Slipstream, one of Richard Wilson’s most innovative projects to date, translates the motion of a car rolling over into the aeronautical maneuver of a small propeller plane turning through the air at high altitude. The suspended, aluminum-clad sculpture twists through the central space of Heathrow Airport’s new Terminal 2 building like an elongated spacecraft settling
Broward County Public Art
Broward County, Florida While Miami has attracted international attention for its art scene over the past decade, its neighbor to the north, Broward County, has been quietly expanding its collection of public sculpture. Broward encompasses several cities, including Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, and Davie; like Miami, it benefits from considerable tourism.
Sculpting Urban Airspace: Janet Echelman
If your eye becomes entangled by the beauty of a huge fishing net cast into the vast blue of the sky, it has probably been caught in a work by Janet Echelman. Originally a painter, Echelman has been working with nets since a residency in India.
Human Nature: A Conversation with Michele Oka Doner
Oceanic myths and images inform Michele Oka Doner’s grand public art projects and sculptural forms. She has embedded miles of terrazzo floors at Miami International Airport’s North Terminal with bronze shells, pearls, starfish, and other sea-life forms and has created terrazzo floors with botanical and scientific motifs for other institutions.
Jonathan Borofsky: On a Grand Scale
Those familiar with the work of Jonathan Borofsky might be surprised to know that he has not had a solo exhibition in a museum or gallery since 1991. They might be equally surprised to learn that during the last decade or so his efforts have almost exclusively been devoted to large-scale outdoor public commissions.