1997 in Review: Public Art

Art in America, August, 1998

Frank Stella. A mural in the lobby of the University of Houston's Moores School of Music building, a university percent-for-art project.

Ilya Kabakov: Monument to the Lost Glove. Life-size red resin glove with nine texts on stanchions at Broadway and 23rd Street in NYC, a Public Art Fund project.

William Wegman: Six Scenic Scenes. Six photos of the artist's dogs in New Jersey settings at the Atlantic City convention center, a state commission.

Robert Millar: Alvarado Garden. Viewing portal, garden and walkway at the Alvarado water filtration plant in San Diego, a city commission.

Sol LeWitt. A marble floor medallion, 18 feet in diameter, at the Washington National Airport's new terminal.

Keith Appel: Unearthed Leviathan. A 32-foot-long cast concrete sea monster at Mirror Lake Middle School in Anchorage, a city percent-for-art commission.

Barbara Kruger: Bus. A city bus with vinyl texts and graphics, serving Manhattan and Queens during November, a Public Art Fund project.

Mel Chin: Signal. Steel, glass, lighting and tile patterns based on Native American designs at NYC's Broadway/ Lafayette station, an MTA commission.

Roberto Juarez: Field of Wild Flowers. Three paintings of New York State flowers, totaling almost 195 square feet, in Grand Central Terminal main waiting room, an MTA commission.

Nancy Dwyer: 911 Oasis. Small tree with 18-inch granite letters quoting John Donne's "No man is an island...," at Chicago's 911 Emergency Facility, a city commission.

Richard Wyatt: People Coming, People Going (detail). Two tile murals, each 52 feet long, at the Wilshire/Western station, a Los Angeles MTA commission.

Michael Peter Cain: Planets/Cosmos. A rotating sculpture at the Cedar Rapids Airport.

Alison and Betye Saar: Roots & Wings. A 40-by-60-foot garden with sculptures and cement planters for kindergarten students at P.S. 152 in Woodside, Queens, a Public Art Fund commission.

Arthur Silverman: Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial. A blue-and-red painted aluminum sculpture, 21 feet high, in Baton Rouge, La.

Steven Singer: Sleep. A larger-than-life bronze sculpture of a homeless woman at Columbus Circle near NYC's Central Park.

Gregory Green: Gregnik Proto II. A working radio transmitter modeled after Sputnik on a Brooklyn rooftop during October, a Public Art Fund project.

Jonathan Borofsky: Lightning. A 75-foot steel sculpture and 9-foot figure at the Ice Palace Plaza in Tampa, Fla., a hockey-team and city commission.

Martin Puryear. Everything That Rises. A bronze sculpture, 23 feet tall, on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, a state commission.

Donald Lipski: The Yearling. A fiberglass toy horse on a red steel chair, 20 feet high, in Central Park, a Public Art Fund commission.

Meg Saligman: Common Threads. A 100-foot-tall mural on the Steven's Administrative Building in Philadelphia, a city mural-arts program commission.

Ursula von Rydingsvard: Skip to My Lou. Twisting wall of rough-hewn cedar blocks, 3 to 4 feet high and 65 feet in diameter, at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash.

Roger Brown: A Tradition of Helping. A 27-foot-long mosaic for the Howard Brown Health Center, a gay and lesbian community organization, in Chicago.

Elyn Zimmerman: Campo. A 150-by-300-foot plaza with brick seating walls, concrete columns and arches at Housatonic Community Technical College in Bridgeport, Conn., a state commission.

Kate Pond: SUNFIX for Judy. Cor-Ten steel sculpture, 8 feet high, at the U.S. border station in Springs, Vt., a GSA commission.

John Banks: Fire Hose Art. Rolled steel pipe fitted with hose couplings and nozzles at Fire Station Number 3 in Las Vegas, a city commission.

John T. Young: The Fin Project. Twenty-two fins from nuclear submarines arranged to resemble a pod of orca whales at Magnuson Park, a Seattle Arts Commission project.

Ed Carpenter: Grasshopper Bridge. A steel-and-concrete pedestrian bridge, 210 feet in length, near 7th Avenue in Phoenix, a city commission.

Carl Pope. Inscribed boulders for 14 killed youths, sponsored by Real Art Ways and Hartford, Conn.

Lori Norwood: Learning to Fly (detail). Five sculptures of children at an Austin, Tex, library.

Stephen Cornelius Roberts. Eight oil-on-linen murals, each 7 by 12 feet, at the Nebraska State Capitol. (Flood and International Law shown.)

Adam Leventhal: Esperanza Gardens. A garden with recycled elements in Los Angeles.

Diana Moore: Justice. GSA-funded steel sculpture in Concord, N.H.