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Karen & Tony Barone

Architectural; Visual Arts: Murals, New Media / Technology, Painting, Sculpture

Karen & Tony possess a formidable wit. They create mind-boggling works of art that challenge our sense of scale and spatial reality. Their larger-than-life sculpture and their over-the-top public art ensemble installations, place us in an Alice-In-Wonderland state of disbelief and visual adventure. They believe art can be a powerful force for good and human enrichment and that’s their M.O. and they support many causes to that goal. PRESENTLY – The Barone’s continue bringing joy & happiness to art lovers and are immersed in multi-disciplined high-level Crypto Art projects which have become vehicles for Karen’s VIDEO EXPERIMENTALIST PERFORMANCE ART and Tony’s PAINTINGS, which are derivative of Karen’s videos. … the future has arrived! Videos and paintings are viewable in the virtual museum at BaroneArt.com

David Griggs

Architectural; Visual Arts: Other, Sculpture

I am a Public Artist based in Denver, and I’ve completed over 65 commissioned works of art throughout the U.S. My work is site-integrated, an approach that utilizes the ability of a site to compliment a work of art both in meaning and in impact. I hope to delight the viewer with physical and formal elements, but what I’m really looking for is that lucid “a ha!”, that act of recognition when truth is found in humor, when identity and meaning are found in metaphor. I graduated from the University of Colorado with a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts. For the last 35 years I have been self-employed as a Public Artist. Recent commissions include projects for Anchorage, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Santa Fe, Toronto, and Washington. I was a consultant for the design and integration of artwork into Denver’s Light Rail system. Other consultancy positions have included projects for Public Housing and for Public Art integration into the redevelopment of a decommissioned Air Force Base.

Edwin Hamilton

Architectural; Visual Arts: Sculpture

Edwin Hamilton MRSS began his career as a stonemason in 1984. His stonemasonry company, Edwin Hamilton Stoneworks, is based in Northern California and has completed numerous large scale residential and public projects across the United States that are distinguished for their creative and contemporary adaptation of this ancient craft. His sculpture practice has evolved from and is inspired by his work as a stonemason- craft and art are inextricably linked. His sculptural forms are both additive and reductive, assembled and carved. Every aspect of his practice considers the extraordinary, universal power of the ancient craft of shaping and placing stone. In 2019 he was elected to the Royal Society of Sculptors and has twice presented work (2018, 2020) at the Venice Architecture Biennale exhibit TimeSpaceExistence sponsored by the European Cultural Centre.

John Himmelfarb

Architectural; Visual Arts: Kinetic, Murals, Other, Sculpture; Architectural Scale Paintings; Self Propelled Sculpture; Music Generative Sculpture

John Himmelfarb is an American artist working in studios in Spring Green, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois. He has been exhibiting nationally since 1968. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums both here and abroad. Public works include large installations at Logan Airport, Boston, and for the Chicago Transit Authority.

Gordon Huether

Architectural; Visual Arts: Fountains, Other, Sculpture; Suspended Work

I founded my studio in 1987 and have created an outstanding team that supports my work and enables me to successfully complete complex and substantial commissions on time and on budget. I have completed award-winning projects for throughout the world and across the United States. I carefully consider the site and its function when designing a new public art installation. Project goals and community engagement guide my concept development and inform my approach and shape the viewer’s experience of my work. My portfolio is diverse and I work with a wide variety of materials, and am well versed in many fabrication and installation methods. Since 2014, I have partnered with the Salt Lake City Department of Airports during its $4.1 billion Airport Redevelopment Program. Working in conjunction with project stakeholders, I have designed, fabricated and installed several significantly sized interior and exterior artworks inspired by Utah’s terrain with an anticipated completion date of 2024.

JanneySound

Architectural; Visual Arts: New Media / Technology

Trained as an architect and a jazz musician, Christopher Janney has created numerous permanent interactive sound/light installations, attempting, on the one hand, to make architecture more “spontaneous” (Harmonic Convergence, Miami Airport; REACH:NY, 34th St. subway, New York) and, on the other hand, to make music more physical (HeartBeat:mb with M. Baryshnikov). Architectural projects include Rainbow Cove at Logan Airport, Boston, MA; A House is a Musical Instrument: Kona, an 8000 square foot private residence in Kona, HI; Harmonic Convergnce, an interactive sound/light environment in the Miami International Airport; Touch My Building:Charlotte, the façade of an 8-story garage for Bank of America, Charlotte, NC; and five US/UK tours of Sonic Forest to major music festivals including “Bonnaroo,” “Coachella,” “Wireless,” “Electric Daisy Carnival” and “Glastonbury.” For more information, go to www.janneysound.com

Guy Kemper

Architectural; Visual Arts: Mosaics, Murals, Sculpture

Study • Listen to and collaborate with the committee, construction team, and community • Research heritage of site to inform artwork meaning • Address engineering, technical and budgetary issues Design • Succeed as art, meaningful community marker, and architectural art • Timeless, joyful, elegant Make • Make as beautiful as possible • Make to require little or no maintenance for 100 years • Usually make from blown glass or Italian mosaic smalti • All projects are installed on time and on budget Me • Professionalism and experience minimize unpleasant surprises • Internationally recognized. Work exhibited and commissioned in Asia, Europe, America, and the Middle East. Lectured at architectural design conferences in the United States, South Korea, and Germany. • Subject of two half-hour documentaries broadcast nationally in US and Germany • Featured in over 80 publications in the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East • Winner of CODA International Design Awards in 2021, 2018, and 2013

John Melvin

Architectural; Visual Arts: Sculpture, Site-specific

John Kenneth Melvin (MFA-SFAI), is a multi-disciplinary Eco-Artist inspiring cultural exchange via commissions and exhibitions internationally. A born & raised Bay Area native, he divides his off-project time between the USA and France, where he holds an ‘artist visa’ granted by the French government. He taught graduate level Art for 5 years and worked 10 years in the corporate world. He achieved over 20 funded ‘artist in residencies’ at institutions internationally from Cambodia to Colorado, 15 years of consecutive professional exhibitions including over 22 solo exhibitions and collaborates with both non-profits and ultra-luxury hotels, from Missouri to Maldives.

Lori Nozick

Architectural; Visual Arts: Installation, Murals, Other, Sculpture; Patinaed Metal Panels

Concurrent with my voyage through time and geography, my work explores time through unexpected passages. The forms and reference of my work are of architectural structures and organic materials with primal approaches, an intuitive dynamic informed by the materials and transcending its’ history to new forms. My work is deeply referential, structures we create and discard, offer a mixing of hidden narrative and exposed layers, examining ongoing cycles of cohesion and disintegration. My large-scale drawings and collages use maps and found images, and architectural structures whose scale and perspective is distorted or exaggerated. Art historian and critic Robert C. Morgan has written, “…structure signifies an inventory of shapes and elements that pull together even as they move in different directions…” The archetypal images and forms of my work function as a repository of individual and collective moments, forming a visceral bridge to a blending of time-frames, real and imagined.

Joseph O'Connell

Architectural; Visual Arts: Kinetic, New Media / Technology, Sculpture

I am the founder of Creative Machines and its artistic director. Over 27 years I have developed a staff of 30 carefully chosen artists, engineers, architects, fabricators, designers and project managers – all united by a shared vision of creativity, enthusiasm and respect. We own an amazing 8-acre facility rooted in a unique community and we create permanent art that is loved all over the world. We have created about 50 public art projects and many of these have won “Best Of…” designations.

Susana

Architectural; Visual Arts: Mosaics, Sculpture

My work is often an architectural reliquary of sorts. I am inspired by how architectural styles reflect the times and locations from which they sprung. The nostalgic yearning of an ephemeral past, memories soon lost, covered with layers of new stories, new techniques, new dreams: in fact, a completely new cast of characters. These characters are my art, retelling stories tinted in new colors, old shapes reworked into a modern version of the past. Using techniques that are at times medieval, and at times cutting edge technology and materials, I strive to create juxtaposition with my work. Currently I am creating a second mosaic garden in an underserved community. I work with at risk teens on designing and creating places of magic. Specializing in exterior grade glass and steel components: Sculptural, Decorative walls, mosaic. We also work with concrete, mosaic, resin, and stained glass

Ann Tarantino

Architectural; Visual Arts: Installation, Mosaics, Murals, Other; Low-Relief Wall Mounted Collage

I create drawings and paintings, collages and installations, and public art projects, including murals. My work explores human experiences of place and landscape—including the colors, patterns, light, shapes, and shadows found across the natural world and the built environment—telling stories about people and the spaces they inhabit (or dream of). I use source materials about places and spaces to generate a visual language of color, line, shape, and form, combining and digitally tracing elements before etching or cutting the resulting images into paper, acrylic, wood, and other materials–or using those pieces as stencils for paintings. Each material is thus a building block combined and layered with others to create vibrant multi-dimensional works. Ultimately, my work emerges from the landscape and the built environment; the lives and memories of the people who move within such spaces; and the patterns and imprints we leave upon and learn from the world around us.

Mike Tauber

Architectural; Furniture; Visual Arts: Fountains, Mosaics, Murals, Other, Woodcraft

A professional artist, Mike Tauber earned his bachelor’s degree in art at San Diego State, and completed indoor and outdoor murals internationally. Tile commissions are at City of Tustin, Crab Cooker Newport Beach, and Taco Stand Laguna Beach. Painted mural commissions are at Wilshire Grand Center Los Angeles, and Geppetto’s Toy Stores throughout San Diego. His travel postcard was recreated on stage at the 2022 Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach where he was name Artist of the Year in 2018.

UrbanRock Design

Architectural; Visual Arts: Sculpture

UrbanRock Design is an art and design studio with Jeanine Centuori, FAIA, and Russell Rock. We work between art and design—this interdisciplinary focus enables us to easily interface with arts and construction professionals. Public art projects seek to sustain history, culture, and environment of place through the integration of imagery with building skins and other components.

Marton Varo

Architectural; Visual Arts: Fountains, Murals, Sculpture

My interest is in public art by working together with architects and designers. I have worked on site specific projects, both public and private commissions internationally. All my projects were presented for the competition or proposals to the decision makers executed in the same material as the final work would be made. Equally interested in both figurative or abstract forms, I developed my own style. Featured image: Palm Desert Peace Memorial

Julian Voss-Andreae

Architectural; Visual Arts: Fountains, New Media / Technology, Sculpture

I draw cutting-edge approaches from diverse fields to re-imagine the ancient art of sculpture. My goal is to convey elements of our spiritual essence and open our eyes to the miraculous nature of the underlying nature of reality. My work is a reminder of our fundamental connectedness, giving tangible expression to the vital paradigm shift from Newtonian separation to a renewed connection with Nature.

Kelly Witmer

Architectural; Furniture; Visual Arts: Bas-relief, Fences / Gates, Fountains, Glasswork / Neons, Installation, Mixed Media, Mosaics, Murals, Painting, Sculpture, Site-specific

I work out of my Joshua Tree studio to create paintings and sculptures in ceramic, glass and steel. Public art has been an exciting field to explore, since I love working in different mediums and relish a challenge. I have worked with many interior designers and art consultants for specific installations, and enjoy collaborating towards an envisioned environment. I received my BFA from University of the Arts in Philadelphia,PA, with additional studies at Parsons School of Design in Paris. I have attended residencies at Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine, ArtVallarta in Mexico and Can Serrat in Spain. My public art installations can be found in Los Angeles, Santa Rosa, CA and Las Vegas, NV.

Mark Yale Harris

Architectural; Visual Arts: Bas-relief, Sculpture

My artwork invokes an awakening of the sensual. Stimulating a perceptual, internal, and intellectual response for the viewer: a visual that speaks to life’s experiences. Creating symbols of universal connection underscores the relationship that one has to another and to nature. Art conveys my nonverbal view of life. An ongoing portrayal of myself, my behavior, adventure, exploration, risk taking, and non-acceptance of convention and the status quo. Life has a hard, aggressive side, as does much of my work, represented by rigid, angular lines. However, the soft side is also apparent, visible as curves and soft forms. Award-winning sculptor Mark Yale Harris works in alabaster, marble, limestone and bronze, expressing the duality in mans’ essence. Career highlights: 250+ national and international gallery and museum exhibitions (90+ solo); 120+ publications have featured his sculpture; he is represented by twenty galleries (US and UK); and has works in permanent public collections.

Janet Zweig

Architectural; Visual Arts: New Media / Technology, Sculpture

Janet Zweig’s public works include a gate to fictional locations at the Austin Airport, a kinetic installation on a pier on the Sacramento River, a performance space in a prairie on a Kansas City downtown green roof, a generative sentence on a wall in downtown Columbus, a sentence-generating sculpture for an engineering school in Orlando, a 1200′ frieze at the Prince Street subway station in New York, and a system-wide interactive project for eleven Light Rail train stations in Minneapolis. Her sculpture and books have been exhibited widely in such places as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Exit Art, PS1 Museum, the Walker Art Center, and Cooper Union. Awards include the Rome Prize Fellowship, NEA fellowships, and residencies at PS1 Museum and the MacDowell Colony. In 2019, she was the artist in residence with the New York City Mayor’s Office of Climate and Sustainability. She teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University.

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