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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

Jorge Blanco

Visual Arts: Sculpture

I am a Venezuelan-American artist who immigrated to the United States in 1999. I have dedicated myself to the creation of art that values a positive lifestyle. My work embraces scale, landscape and the urban. I want to express gratitude and happiness and I am inspired by movement, music, athletes and nature. I have worked in many mediums, including bronze, fabric and wood, now I use aluminum because of its lightness and durability in harsh climates. My sculptures are generally painted in bright colors, I use the powder coating technique for outdoor sculptures. I am continuously working, creating collectible sculptures, prints and large-scale projects for developers and public spaces. My work has been exhibited worldwide and as of December 2022, I have a gallery space in Sarasota, Florida, the city where I live, create and fabricate my work. Featured image: Bravo!, Sarasota, Florida. This work represents the vibrant spirit of the arts, I used clean shapes to create the illusion of movement. You will find abstract elements representing music, cinema, dance and the visual arts.

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.

Charla Elizabeth

Visual Arts: Sculpture

I find great value in nature and its feminine essence, and I honor both in my artwork. Mother Nature, the essential natural feminine force that sustains us, inspires me and I have partnered with her my entire artistic life. At its essence, my work is about promoting balance.

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.

Gus & Lina Art

Visual Arts: Sculpture

We are a husband and wife team. Throughout the years we have worked in various media: steel, stainless steel, aluminum, cold cast… We have also incorporated LED lights into our pieces. Exploring all these different types of media has given us the opportunity to express ourselves in multiple ways through our art, from tabletop size sculptures to 20 ft height sculptures that have been bought by different Cities and Private entities . Although we are always adding different textures, colors and accents to our artworks these unique features allow us to give our pieces a signature look. We have 42 permanent Public Art projects commissioned by different cities and private collectors throughout the states: Chicago IL, Las Vegas NV, Atlanta GA , Miami FL, Augusta GA, Clearwater FL, Greeley CO, Hilton Head Island SC etc. and have shown more than 70 monumental sculptures in juried Public Art exhibitions throughout USA.

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.

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.

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.

MIDABI MIDABI

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Murals, Sculpture, Site-specific

Early in my life I established a deep commitment to divergent acts in hopes of attaining uncommon insight into the nature of reality. I utilize the power of text and compose my findings into an artistic practice as a means of sharing information; philosophical public intervention. I come from blue and white collar artists, salesmen, engineers, veterans, and progressive cultural pioneers. I began making art and seeking knowledge at the age of 15, from which my current work is a direct extension. I do not have a formal education in art, I have a bachelor’s in media & cultural studies, and a master’s in international counseling psychology. My influences include one grandmother who was a painter of female nudes in NYC, another who founded an art school in Los Angeles and retired to Palm Springs in the 1950’s, continuing art education out of her house, and my living 90 year old godfather who founded the world’s first LGBTQ fine art museum in NYC.

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.

Pattie Porter Firestone

Visual Arts: Sculpture

My fun 3D work tries to capture the unseen energies that flow and connect us all. My WuHao Tai Ji practice helps me experience the chi. With a variety of waves of energy moving around and through us like sound, radio waves and astro-particles all too small to see, I’m trying to visualize what connects us to each other and to nature. My sculpture practice is an exploration of these synergies.

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.

Bill Weaver

Visual Arts: Fountains, Sculpture

I cannot say in words what I communicate visually. The internal dialog that occurs while I’m working augments the process but does not explain the result. Good work stands independent of its making. To appreciate art is to be sensitive to your own responses to it.

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.

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