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Lynn Basa

Visual Arts: Mosaics, Other, Sculpture

With public art, the people, history, and purpose of a place become my materials. Every public art commission starts with the aspirations of its community, whether it’s about commemoration or commerce; reparation or reclamation, it all forms the symbolic meaning of my work. This human effort and constant innovation fueled by the necessity for survival is what I celebrate in my public work.

Diane Bush

Visual Arts: New Media / Technology, Other, Sculpture

I enjoy using a wide variety of materials to bring my vision to light. Inventiveness, color, and humor are just some of my tools.

John Christensen

Visual Arts: Other, Sculpture; theatre, design

John Christensen is an artist working in Austin, Texas. Before 1990, he sited ephemeral works in rural landscapes of New York, Georgia and Texas. Since 1990, he has focused that sensibility on projects for theatre and for more permanent installations in the public place – often collaborating with choreographers and other design professionals, and, working with unique architectural spaces – making environments for 30 theatrical productions presented worldwide and installing 20 large commissions throughout the USA. First felt, later thought – the objects he sculpts provoke visceral responses and shifts in attention. In recent sculptures and reliefs he has evoked organic systems – branching rhizomes, biotic colonies, neural networks, wave interference patterns, polymers – to make poetic connections between phenomena in disparate fields. He exploits old and new technologies. He sustains a studio practice, going to his studio most days to make things.

Bill FitzGibbons

Visual Arts: Other, Sculpture

My work is based on the philosophy that public art should complement and enhance the surrounding environment by creating engaging, yet practical, creative elements. As detailed in my resume, my projects have elevated this approach to evoke “place making” in public areas. My approach to public art provokes the elevation of space into an engaging, human experience.

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.

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.

Jeni Bate - Skyscapes For The Soul

Visual Arts: Murals, Other

“I paint the skies with peace and passion, because that’s the way they paint me.” My aim with my work is to provide an uplifting yet peaceful feeling for a space, to counteract the busy lives we tend to lead. I create realistic and impressionistic skyscapes in a variety of media, and sky-inspired abstracts in mixed media. My mixed media work is based around my signature refractured style. I also include poetry I wrote for the painting in many of my works. I am also available for commission paintings of many other subjects and can work from your photographs and ideas. I’ve painted pet-portraits, landscapes, concepts, even the words of a song. I also love working with unusually shaped spaces.

BJ Krivanek

Visual Arts: Media & Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Other, Sculpture, Site-specific; public art, inscription

BJ Krivanek is a professor emeritus of visual communication at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, principal of Krivanek+Breaux/ Art+Design, and founding artistic director of Community Architexts. He has an MFA in Art+Design from the University of Illinois/ Urbana-Champaign and a BA in Applied Arts from Iowa State University. During the past 25+ years, he has completed over 25 public art projects throughout the country, including activated structures for the CTA Brown Line Chicago station, an interactive artwork at the University of Florida, and a commission for the Oklahoma City Municipal Courthouse. Most recently, he has completed an activated plaza for the Municipal Courts Building in Oklahoma City and has received a commission with the Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum in Springfield, IL. BJ’s work has been honored/ published in many design annuals, including the American Center for Design100 Show, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Society for Environmental Graphic Design, ID and Graphis, and included in the inaugural National Design Triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum/ New York. A feature article about his work appeared in Graphis 310/ Zurich. His work has received an NEA Federal Design Achievement Award and the Art Directors Club of New York Gold Medal as well as numerous SEGD honor/ merit awards, Illinois Arts Council fellowships, and grants from the Chicago and Los Angeles cultural affairs departments.

Daniel Moore

Visual Arts: Other, Sculpture

A good public art story considers all the significant elements and weaves them together into artistic form. Public art creates a more humane environment; one of distinction, enjoyment, and pride for all citizens. My work comes from a deep and broad connection to nature, its beauty and power and I strive to create artwork that suggests a narrative for the viewer to complete. I believe a collaborative process is the most effective approach for creating public spaces. For me, creating public art is both a process and a philosophy. It is centered around observing, listening to, and asking questions of the people who live, work, and play in a particular space in order to understand their needs and aspirations for that space and for their community as a whole. As a skilled craftsperson with an ingrained sense of artistry, I observe a self-prescribed mandate to create excellent, extraordinary work.

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.

Prentice Colbert, Inc

Visual Arts: Kinetic, Other, Sculpture

With a background in architecture, I have been involved with public art as a kinetic sculptor for over forty years both in this country and abroad. Since 2012 I have been in partnership with David Colbert as Prentice Colbert, Inc. My career has been devoted to meeting the requirements of the space, the schedule and the budget. Our hope is that the work will engage the mind and lift the spirit. The changing patterns produced by slight currents of air are what we count on to repeatedly draw the eye of the viewer to the work. Works are made of elements linked by a wire web engineered to allow them to move individually and in concert. The action of the air moving over the individual elements causes the whole linked mass to move and change shape. We take it as an article of faith that the air around us moves in ways that are organic, whimsical, and unpredictable. We therefore assume that if we were to abdicate the design to the wind, the work would take on these same qualities.

Po Shu Wang

Visual Arts: Other, Site-specific; Public Art

ARTIST BACKGROUND My interest in site-inspired art started in the Rome Academy of Fine Arts, Italy. After graduation, I spent 15 years in Europe working my art and teaching into adulthood. The most lasting influence from those years is the integrated cross-disciplinary practice of the Renaissance spirit, which is still where my public art approach is evolving from. GENERAL APPROACH This cross-disciplinary approach naturally requires my constant collaborations with outside professionals from faraway fields of expertise right from the start, the on-going experience has taught me to pro-actively integrate non art perspectives and methodologies into enriching my humanities core, while expanding my awareness towards inspirations that are inherent in the uniqueness of each project ecology, creating a feedback loop of learning and exploration of relevant aesthetic solutions that extend to all spheres of life.

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.

Tom White, Monumental Bronze Sculptor

Visual Arts: Bas-relief, Fountains, Other, Sculpture; Monumental

I believe the character of a person’s heart is written in the lines of their face. In the sculptures I create, I seek to capture the subject and the emotions that were, or are, the driving force behind their actions and deeds. I also try to embody at least one of the five following tenets in the scenes I create: • a sense of Community – the respect and fervor with which we serve each other; • a sense of Heritage – bringing the past alive in a way that embodies the future; • a sense of Family – the hope, faithfulness and constancy we find in the ties that bind; • a sense of Honor – for those who serve, protect, defend and lead our nation, in our communities and in the world in civil, military, educational, non-profit, political and ministerial capacities; and • a sense of Faith – hope, belief and faith in the true purpose we were created for that lifts us beyond ourselves and our own capacities to reach out to our fellow man in serving others through the gifts endowed by the Creator.

Ravi Wilkie

Visual Arts: Fine Art, Illustration, Mixed Media, Murals, Other, Painting, Wall Treatments, Watercolor; Art Restoration

Growing up in an unstable household I began to use art as my own form of meditation at a really young age. When I was 13 I got my first job in Boulder Colorado, as an artist’s assistant, and have been working as a professional artist ever since. Before I graduated high school I studied art at Colorado University, and at 18, I left Colorado, and moved to New York City. There I got a job hand finishing at one of the top fine art frame shop in the industry and began to master my craft. After several years I ended up in showbiz where I managed the paint department at a scene shop in Brooklyn. There I spent most of my time painting back drops and set pieces for film, theater, television and trade show events. This enabled me to hone my faux finishing and paint treatment skills. While living in NYC I also ended up doing a fair amount of freelance illustration and even a bit of tattooing. During that time I met my wife, Elena and in 2013 we got married. Then we decided to move, and we started our new life in Redondo Beach, California in 2015. I landed a job at Poster Mountain, an art restoration shop, conserving and restoring original artwork and print media. In 2020 when the pandemic hit we decided to move out of LA and head to the desert, where we settled in La Quinta. I worked part time as a chalk artist, but by that point I was really itching to do my own thing. I started getting more commission work, which began to grow really quickly and before long I was booked up with murals. I was growing so fast that I needed help. Elena decided she also needed a change and she left her 25year career as a hairstylist. We were then able to focus on growing our business together and finding a new creative outlet for Elena. This gave way to making her own jewelry and me creating more art, so we sort of became an artist hub for each other and Wilkie Studios was born. Since then we have been busy painting murals, doing pop up festivals and finding more local shops to partner and grow with.

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