98 Public Art IN REVIEW - US public art installations - Brief Article - Directory

Art in America, Annual, 1999

1 Komar & Melamid

Liberty and Liberty as Justice (shown). Two paintings at the Bronx Housing Court in New York City, a percent-for-art commission.

2 Do-Ho Suh

Public Figures. Stone pedestal supported by hundreds of tiny resin figures, at Metro Tech Center in Brooklyn, a Public Art Fund project.

3 Beverly Pepper

Sentinels of Justice. Five cast-iron columns, from 25 to 29 feet high, at the U.S. courthouse in Kansas City, Mo., a U.S. General Services Administration commission.

4 Tony Matelli

Stray Dog. A life-size resin sculpture of a lost seeing-eye dog, at MetroTech Center in Brooklyn, a Public Art Fund project.

5 Alice Aycock

Star Sifter. Various aluminum and steel elements suspended from steel screening and a frame of radiating spokes covering the 60-foot atrium in the central rotunda at Terminal One, JFK International Airport in New York City.

6 Chakaia Booker

Serendipity. A 60-foot-long perforated wood screen covered with used tire rubber in the shape of a question mark, at Metro Tech Center in Brooklyn, a Public Art Fund project.

7 Dennis Oppenheim

Engagement. Two 30-foot-tall steel rings with electric lights, at Broadway and 23rd Street in Manhattan, a temporary installation funded by Stefan Stux Gallery and the artist.

8 Red Grooms

Tennessee Foxtrot Carousel. Merry-go-round with figures of local folk heros at Riverfront Park in Nashville, a private commission.

9 Vito Acconci

Flying Floors for the Main Ticketing Pavilion. A functional steel-and-terrazzo sculpture integrating the ground floor and mezzanine, at Philadelphia International Airport.

10 Rachel Whiteread

Water Tower. Resin cast of a wooden water tank, just over 11 feet high and 8 feet in diameter, on a roof at West Broadway and Grand St. in Manhattan, a Public Art Fund commission.

11 Dan Witz

Sticks. Painted mural of sticks protruding from the wall at the Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center in Manhattan, a Public Art Fund project.

12 Charles Ross

Solar Spectrum. Eighteen 8-foot-long acrylic prisms suspended under a glass skylight, at the U.S. Courthouse II in Tampa, Fla., a U.S. General Services Administration commission.

13 Denise Milan & Ary Perez

Americas' Courtyard. Blocks of white marble and South American granites forming a circular architectural sculpture 30 feet in diameter, at Chicago's Museum Campus, a city project.

14 Mel Chin

Seven Wonders. Seven 70-foot-tall pillars featuring 1,050 children's drawings cut in stainless steel, at the Sesquicentennial Park in Houston, a city commission.

15 Steve Gillman

Schisms. Three split granite boulders, 8, 10 and 12 feet high, at an apartment complex in Sunnyvale, Calif., a city percent-for-art commission.

16 Brian Goggin

Samson. Two 30-foot columns of stacked suitcases on carts in the baggage claim area at Sacramento International Airport, a city commission.

17 Janet Lofquist

Passages (detail). Three steel-and-granite benches, with steel oars and cast-concrete book forms, at River Rocks Anoka Ramsey Community College in Coon Rapids, Minn., a state commission.

18 Susie Brandt

Glint. Thousands of Plexiglas mirrors attached to a building at the Merion, Pa., train station, a Main Line Art Center commission, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

19 Kristen Jones & Andrew Ginzel

Oculus. Three hundred mosaic eyes located in the World Trade Center, Chambers Street and Park Place subway stations in Manhattan, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts for Transit commission.

20 Ellsworth Kelly

The Boston Panels. Twenty-one oil-on-alumium Panels installed throughout the Federal Courthouse in Boston, a U.S. General Services Administration commission.

21 Deborah Wian Whitehouse

Water Spirits. A 32-foot-long mural composed of five underwater photographs, at the JFK Natatorium in Atlanta, a city commission.

22 Joe Zucker

For My Grandfather, Noye Pride, a Locomotive Engineer. A 132-foot-long faceted glass mural depicting a vintage train, at the Long Island Railroad's Huntington Station, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts for Transit commission.

23 Anna Valentine Murch

Skytones. Fluorescent lights and colored gels in five niches, at Benaroya Hall, home of the Seattle symphony, a city commission.

24 Nancy Lovendahl

"Earth, Air, Fire, and Water" (Water shown). Four circular groupings of native Colorado stone, at Cuernavaca Park in Denver, a city commission.

25 Owen Smith

An Underground Movement: Designers, Builders, Riders (detail). Five mosaics with cityand subway-related themes at the 36th Street subway station in Brooklyn, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority I Arts for Transit commission.