Petra Eiko and The-Green-Heart Now at Galiara’s New Gallery 4N5

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Internationally known artist and author Petra Eiko is showing new artwork in Galiara’s new San Francisco Gallery 4n5 through the end of February 2012. In addition to her paintings, Eiko has brought her “What is in your heart?–The world is listening” interactive public art project inviting San Francisco visitors and residents to express their hearts. Eiko is a truly innovative contemporary artist with her reverse acrylic paintings on Plexiglas. Her artworks radiate energy, light and the ever-changing yet [...]

Art with sustainable solutions: Morrison Studio installs Sun-Catcher, a solar powered light sculpture

BIRMINGHAM, ALA.- Recycled aluminum, colored lucite and solar panels were used to fabricate this powerful 15 ft. tall Sun-Catcher sculpture for the City of Clearwater, Florida. “This is the wonderful opportunity for a sustainable public art project along the islands in the Cleveland Street District,” says Deedee Morrison. As a sculptor and installation artist, Morrison has a particular affinity for plants, other natural forms, and light. The sculptor has coupled her interest in the natural world with a fascination for technical and [...]

Landmark public art collection premieres in Sacramento’s new Terminal B

SACRAMENTO, CA.- Twelve major public artworks are premiering in Sacramento with the opening of the new Terminal B at the Sacramento International Airport. The first commercial flight embarked from the new Terminal on October 6th. Airport passengers from everywhere are now able to view the collection, and the general public is invited to attend guided tours that will run through the end of 2011. The Terminal is the largest construction project in the history of Sacramento County, and the artworks there [...]

Dallas Museum of Art Showcases Select Works by Contemporary Artists at Cowboys Stadium

DALLAS, TX.- In anticipation of Dallas’ first-ever Super Bowl in February 2011 at the new Cowboys Stadium, the Dallas Museum of Art presents an exhibition of contemporary work by the artists whose large-scale and site-specific commissions are on view at the stadium as part of the Dallas Cowboys Art Program. Drawn from the DMA’s collections and from select local private holdings, Big New Field: Artists in the Cowboys Stadium Art Program features some twenty works by the artists in this [...]

Site-Specific Public Art Installation By Pioneering New Media Artist Jim Campbell

NEW YORK, NY.- Madison Square Park Conservancy presents Scattered Light, a new site-specific public art installation by pioneering new media artist Jim Campbell. Marking the artist’s most ambitious public art project to date, Scattered Light features three installations of orchestrated light incorporating elements of computer programming and high-technology for a public art installation which literally lights up Madison Square Park this fall and winter. Jim Campbell’s Scattered Light will remain on view through February 28, 2011, as part of the Conservancy’s [...]

Jim Campbell to Present His Most Ambitious Public Art Project to Date

NEW YORK, NY.- Madison Square Park Conservancy announces new site-specific commission by pioneering new media artist Jim Campbell. Scattered Light, Campbell’s largest and most ambitious public work in digital media to date, will be on view from October 21 through December 10, 2010, as part of the Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art program. Featuring two new major public art commissions, Jim Campbell’s Scattered Light will blanket Madison Square Park’s Oval Lawn with a 3-D matrix of nearly 2,000 LED lights featuring [...]

Public Art Project Presents Various Puppet Shows to Drivers Caught in Traffic

LOS ANGELES, CA.- LAXART is pleased to announce Superclogger, Los Angeles-based artist Joel Kyack’s first public project. Conceived with Peter Fuller, a Providencebased artist and bike mechanic, and developed out of Kyack’s interest in chaos, performance, and the relationship between individual will and collective control, Superclogger presents various puppet shows to drivers caught in traffic from a mobile theater housed in the back of a nondescript white pickup truck. An FM broadcaster placed inside the truck and similar to those [...]

Artist Anita Glesta Creates CENSUS Public Art Project

NEW YORK, NY.- The Census Project, a large-scale public art project created by artist Anita Glesta for the United States General Services Administration’s Art in Architecture Program (GSA) at the United States Census Bureau Headquarters in Suitland, Maryland, will be inaugurated on Monday July 12, 2010. Covering more than seven acres, the project attempts to humanize the abstraction of the census (data and numbers) as it draws attention to the history of numbers and the diversity of people in the [...]

Austrian Artist Karl-Heinz Klopf’s “You’re Having a Laugh”

LIVERPOOL.- For the past five months Austrian artist Karl-Heinz Klopf has been working in residence in North Liverpool, across the neighbourhoods of Everton, Anfield and Breckfield. As a way of marking the end of his residency, Klopf has created “YOU’RE HAVING A LAUGH”, a unique part installation, part exhibition, part performance and part party representing the idea of a great night out. During his residency he has made strong connections with many people throughout the surrounding neighbourhoods and is currently [...]