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Ed Carpenter

Visual Arts: Sculpture

I work from the general to the specific, using methods that are generally deductive rather than inductive. I respond initially to the physical characteristics of a site—its scale, surroundings, materials, and patterns of use. I try to discover “where is this space asking for special expression?” and, if so, should it be large or small, foreground or background, colorful or subdued, soft or hard, transparent or opaque, quiet or boisterous, etc. While wrestling with these dualities, I consider how my work might convey meaning in relation to the users of the space, their history, and their cultural context. The emergence of metaphor occurs toward the end of my process, at which point I massage my materials and details to emphasize abstractly the themes that have presented themselves during my explorations. When I have the luxury of public engagement meetings, I embrace what I can learn from local citizens, and I enjoy hearing their responses to my initial ideas.

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.

Clownbank Studio

Visual Arts: Murals

After graduating from Pratt Institute with a major in advertising in 1972, I established my graphic arts shop Clownbank Studio in San Francisco, specializing in air brushed murals, illustrations, and signs. Starting off as a street artist air brushing T-shirts on Fisherman’s Wharf, I slowly graduated to such clients as Disney, Universal Studio Tours, 6 Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo as well as book publishers, advertising agencies, and many mom and pop businesses. Art commissions in Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Watsonville, Sacramento, Gilroy, and East Palo Alto have also felt the touch of my brush. Murals can be an important component in a community and the muralist must take this into account when creating a public image that everyone is forced to see on a daily basis, whether they want too or not. The mural should be like the well in a town that nourishes everyone. I like to have the element of beauty, humor, and meaningfulness in every image that I create.

Jim Collins

Visual Arts: Sculpture

Primarily a Public Art sculptor working in a figurative manner, best exemplified by his long running series the WATCHER. His sculpture style has been characterized by the use of silhouettes of people and animals constructed of stainless steel, aluminum and other metals. Degrees from Marshall University in West Virginia, the University of Michigan, and a M.F.A. degree in sculpture from Ohio University. There is more information at the website www.collins3D.com. and https://www.wescover.com/creator/jim-collins-sculpture. His work can be found in many collections in the United States and Ireland with the majority located in the Southeastern United States. Colorful silhouettes of figures and animals can be seen from the Emerald Isle to Plano, TX with the selected additions in Balbriggan County Dublin Ireland and St. Joseph, MO. A commission for Sienna Plantation, Missouri, TX. The recent placement Public Sculpture to Splinter Creek, MS., Hickory, NC. and Sandy Springs, GA.

Robert Craig

Visual Arts: Sculpture

Abstraction and the study of material culture is central to my current studio practices and methodology; fabricated metal is my primary medium. The referential qualities of my sculpture are accomplished through part-to-part relationships of hybrid forms that retain some degree of their origins while also pointing to other destinations. Color is a critical element, and the colors are chosen to be as suggestive as the assembled structure itself. I have considerable experience creating durable monumental sculptures that create a welcoming sense of place and offer new perspectives on the surrounding environment. I can productively work within a timeframe and a budget. My sculptures are permanently situated in private and public locations in Iowa, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Florida. I have received commissions for Grinnell College, the City of Cedar Falls, and the Blanden Art Museum. I regularly exhibit my sculpture in national competitive public art exhibitions.

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