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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.

Phoebe Brunner

Visual Arts: Painting

My paintings reflect the tension between pure beauty and the threat of nature’s devastating potential…. Sublime imagery with a slight ominous warning, between mystery and faith, between what we can control in our environment and what we cannot. And with this reverence for nature, hopefully an understanding of our responsibility to protect our environment. As a visual artist, I use beauty as a tool, a hook, to seduce the viewer into awareness, and hopefully engender a greater stewardship….Created by tapping into a huge visual reservoir of memories, I utilize field notes, photos, and thumbnail sketches. A third generation Californian, I spent a large part of my childhood on a 15,000 acre coastal cattle ranch – one of the original Spanish Land Grant ranchos – near Santa Barbara, where I currently live and work. Featured image: “We Are Floating, We Are Gifted”, 60″ x 50″, oil on canvas

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.

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.

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.

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