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T Barny

Visual Arts: Sculpture

I aspire to create sculpture that reflects a world filled with magic and wonder, celebrating the interrelated continuousness of all things through my Mobius-like works, with a single, traceable, looping edge. My works are produced through a method of direct carving, which entails having no preconceived notions or models from which to derive the final shape of my pieces. Instead, I allow the natural rhythms of the materials I use to guide me to a final product, rich with serene fluidity. During my 40-year-career, I have produced more than 1000 works in steel, bronze, wood, and water, though my curvilinear, Mobius-inspired stone sculptures are my most celebrated. I have carved 211 different kinds of rock from 56 countries.

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.

Nicole Beck

Visual Arts: Mosaics, Sculpture

Nicole Beck is a professional working artist in Chicago who fabricates sculpture in her studio, has worked for many years with young apprentice artists on collaborative public art projects as a Lead Artist, and has an extensive show record. Beck has installed site-specific public art commissions that are the result of intensive research and collaborative input from invested stakeholders. She has won numerous grants, awards and has attended many artists residencies, creating a web of support nationwide. Her work has evolved over the years to incorporate the concepts and applications of physics and the natural sciences. Botanical sciences, optics and astronomy are frequent themes. Nicole’s work has evolved to include iconic and unique large-scale public sculptures that incorporate a variety of materials, deftly moving across mediums to apply whatever best materializes the concept. Her works are installed nationwide.

Dennis A. Dezmain

Visual Arts: New Media / Technology, Sculpture

I was born in Oakland, California, raised in New York and currently living in Florida. I have been paralleling my art career with architecture and engineering for over forty years. Currently, I am very concerned with the geometrics of sculpture. The relationship of shapes and their space placement to create an overall form has captured my artistic direction.

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.

Michael Clapper Studios

Visual Arts: Sculpture

Dear Committee, I feel that public art is a way of communicating the core emotion or essence of any given place or situation. What public art can, and should be, is an engaging piece of art that educates and-or evokes an emotional response within the context of the given site. Above all, a successful piece of public art will challenge the viewer with alternative views, surprising the viewer with a fresh look into the meaning of the host site. Having completed over 35 public art projects around the US and abroad, I strive to produce bold visual gestures that evoke reactions at a glance; imagery that makes a visceral connection upon first sight. A secondary level of interest is also important to me. This may include representational imagery, text or light that the viewer discovers after approaching the work, or after a period of contemplation. Sincerely, Michael Clapper

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.

Showcase Mosaics

Visual Arts: Mosaics, Murals

For me, mosaic is a form of magic. The process of breaking down large sheets of glass, finding that perfect glass for each small piece, that just right hue, level of transparency and surface texture that will speak to what I’m trying to say with this glass “brush stroke.” The medium is always a joy and a challenge, cutting the perfect shape and size tesserae to create that feeling. The overall theme of my artwork is a resolute celebration of this life; of our world, both our own creations and of natural things. Mosaic carries a message of wonder, not only in the monuments and architecture of our surroundings, but also of the hope intrinsic in this celebration.

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.

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.

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