Red Hook factory building was site of Kara Walker's «A Subtlety,»
monumental public art installation, a sphinx - like mammy sculpture that drew record visitors
More recently, in 2014, she created
a monumental public art installation in Brooklyn's Domino Sugar Factory, a regal sugar sculpture of a sphinx with the head of a woman, which tackled the thorny, entwined histories of sugar and slavery.
Not exact matches
With her large - scale
installations, Barlow constructs imposing works that play between the
monumental scale of
public art and architecture and the precariousness of her chosen materials and compositions.
Chicago gained broad
public attention in the late 1970s for her
monumental feminist
installation The Dinner Party, now permanently installed as part of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist
Art at the Brooklyn Museum of
Art.
Her first
public art project, the
monumental installation A Subtlety (2014), was commissioned by Creative Time and received wide acclaim.
As an
art educator and artist, Smith frequently involves student artwork in her
monumental public installations, created for the New York Metro, Los Angeles Metro Transit Authority, and the Chicago Transit Authority, among others.3
Akhunov criticized the system, for example, digging out skeletons from
public institutions as in
Art - Cheology, 1975 - 86, or placing
monumental sculptures of letters in a restricted exhibiting space creating an effect of suffocation, as in Breathe Quietly, 1976 - 2013, the
monumental installation already exhibited last year in Italy during the 55th Venice Biennale.»
Her early landmark
installation Rhapsody (1976), a
monumental aggregation of 987 steel plates, is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern
Art, and many paintings are found in major
public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, the Yale University
Art Gallery, the Tate Modern, the Philadelphia Museum of
Art, LACMA, and SFMOMA.
It's a diverse lot that includes the Alturas Foundation, which funded «Makin» Hay,» the
public art installation of
monumental sculpture by Tim Otterness at Hardberger Park; the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation for the
Arts, known for one of the best collections of African American
art in the country; and Claudia Huntington and Marshall Miller, who loaned SAMA large scale figurative sculpture for the show, including the piece by Chia and Polish artist Igor Mitoraj's «Sonno Screpolato (Cracked Sleep),» a bronze of a fragmented face.
The
monumental installation GaiaMotherTree by the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto (b. 1964) is a spectacular
public art project presented by the Fondation Beyeler in Zurich Main station.
This year began with the announcement of Feuerman's
public art installation with New York City Parks & Recreation from May through September; her most iconic monumental sculpture, Survival of Serena, was unveiled in hyperrealistically painted bronze at Petrosino Square, SoHo for the first time courtesy of Jim Kempner Fine A
art installation with New York City Parks & Recreation from May through September; her most iconic
monumental sculpture, Survival of Serena, was unveiled in hyperrealistically painted bronze at Petrosino Square, SoHo for the first time courtesy of Jim Kempner Fine
ArtArt.
The show reflects on the traditional role of
public art by offering a counterbalance to the
monumental scale often employed for plaza sculptures and other outdoor
installations in
public spaces.
And that sexiness is also going to be on spectacular display in New York this summer, thanks to internationally recognized artist Olafur Eliasson's
monumental Waterfalls
public art installations along our East River waterfront.