Eye sculptures!
We were downtown in the Cultural District on Wednesday night, thanks to a generous friend who shared tickets they were unable to use. And there we were, right by the eye benches and fountain. We’d just come out of the Theater Square Garage. We photographed the Eye Benches, sculpted by artist Louise Bourgeois.
“’Walking to the Sky’ is a portrait of all of humanity rising upwards from the earth to the heavens above — striving into the future with strength and determination.” Says the CMU (a’64) alumnus and artist. I drive by the Carnegie Mellon campus and think about trying to find a place to park to photograph this public art from a closer angle.
I posted a guest blog by Shuey of this sculpture in 2017 and another post from Berlin in 2018 Borofsky’s work Molecule Man
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A public art installation.
Here’s one of the fiberglass horses around the town of Lexington Massachusetts.
illumi-neigh-ted
Mary says thanks for all the good birthday wishes on the blog.
and she sent me these two photos of the touring Public Art Exhibition “The Great Elephant Migration,”….that has opened in New York, not only depicts wildlife but also helps save it. Click link for more info
“…..on view from September 6th to October 20th, 2024 in the Meatpacking District” Gotham to Go. Click link for more photos
These colorfully painted spheres caught my eye as we walked to the Riverfront Park along the Hudson. here are a few examples.
“WALK TO THE WATER IN HUDSON SQUARE
The Hudson Square BID (Business Improvement District) and artist Clementine Martinez have created a way-finding system that uses outdoor art pieces to take viewers through a historical walking tour of the neighborhood. The exhibit leads viewers to the river past 20 painted spheres on a path along Spring and Washington streets to the new crossing to Hudson River Park just south of the Google building at St. John’s Terminal. The artworks are accompanied by a digital guide that dive deeper into the events and places that inspired each artwork with members of the community sharing stories about the neighborhood” from the TriBeCa Citizen
Two sculptures of Magnolias Trees in bloom at the corner of Seventh Street and Penn Avenue- Public Art in The Cultural District – downtown Pittsburgh. The lead artist –Tony Tasset
My granddaughter and I were on our way to opening night of The Music Man.
Right across the street from the theatre where we were headed… “Two sculptures of magnolia trees called Magnolias for Pittsburgh are surrounded by five real magnolia trees.”
“The intention of Magnolias for Pittsburgh was first and foremost to create a public work with an egalitarian aesthetic that appeals to a wide range of the population,” Mr. Tasset writes in his artist’s statement. “I wanted to simply create a little magic, fairy tale moment in the daily hustle and bustle of downtown Pittsburgh. Magnolias is meant to have a dynamic relationship with the environment,”
A reblog from June 12, 2014
Here is the delight of the day- (Stef!)
A monumental sculpture by J Seward Johnson has been at PPG Place for “about four days”, the guard said.
But don’t worry. The giant dancers will be in place until October.
Dancing at Bougival (painted in 1883 by Pierre A. Renoir ) is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Note: August 2020. This post inspired after seeing Pittsburgh Artist Jack Puglisi ‘s Pointillist work “The Dance” from his MASTERWORKS series – remembered I had photographed this sculpture in 2014.
Seen last week when I was on Ohio, I was walking to the swim meet from the parking garage. And I did experienced exactly what the article quoted below says….”a fun surprise to stumble upon”
“The Garden of Constants at the Ohio State University is a fun surprise to stumble upon. The massive, colorful numbers bring a whimsical air to the lawn outside the engineering building. They’ve stood there since 1994… “ from atlasobscura.com the large numbers are sculpted from copper and bronze by artist Barbara Grygutis (click her name to see her other public art sculptures)
I will have to return to photograph these….
“…. you’ll find pavers containing mathematical and formulaic constants. The formulas reflect the electrical engineering and computer science activities and classes that take place within the surrounding buildings.“
Sunday morning, I walked from the train to the Schoenefeld Airport and noticed the scaffolding was down and the painting of the mural complete.
I saw the artist’s name, Steven Karlstedt. You might remember the photo of the painting of the mural when I arrived a couple of weeks ago.
https://rutheh.com/2018/04/03/the-mural-painter-in-berlin/
Photographed on March 31st
https://www.stevenkarlstedt.de/
Farewell until my next visit.