Grand Rapids Art Prize Piece That Looked Like Dark Water
ArtPrize 2011
ARTPRIZE 2011
Dates: Sept. 21 through Oct. nine
ArtPrize® is a radically open competition. Open to any artist in the world who can find space. Open to anybody in Grand Rapids, Michigan who wants to create a venue. Open to a vote from anyone who attends. 1000 Valley State University Outdoor Art & Sculpture Exhibition Center showcased 31 outside works of art by local, national and international artists. The artworks were displayed throughout the beautiful grounds of our downtown campus. A shuttle stop, voter registration and ArtPrize store was located at DeVos Centre, and visitors enjoyed our "sculpture walk" from DeVos Center to Eberhard Center and the pedestrian Blue Bridge over the Thou River.
Thou Valley Country Academy Exhibition Heart
Grand Valley Country University'due south Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus is situated along the Thousand River between Pearl and Fulton Streets. The cute lawns and grounds of Richard M. DeVos Center, L.V. Eberhard Center, Fred M. Keller Technology Lab and John C. Kennedy Hall of Applied science make this an ideal place to showcase 25 or more exterior works of art.
Blue Bridge Venue
One thousand Valley State Academy will also be curating the Blue Bridge this year. The Blue Bridge is a pedestrian span with a convenient connexion betwixt our Robert C. Pew One thousand Rapids Campus and the east side of the river. It is a popular site for taking photographs of wedding parties, prom groups and graduates and is very visible with it'southward "Laker Blueish" colour.
Sambuca
Calvin Babich, a stone sculptor, stone creative person and rock mason from Toledo, OH
3D, limestone, not yet created
Calvin has participated in ArtPrize all three years and showed at GVSU'due south exhibition centre last year with his piece "28". "Sambuca" is a term for an aboriginal harp-like stringed instrument. Sambuca is carved entirely from Indiana limestone. The harp and the base started out as big flat pieces of stone that looked similar sidewalk slabs. He then worked the stone with saws, hammers and chisels and added gold paint.
The harp class is sculpturally very appealing to him because of its smooth, flowing lines and the way in which the form engages people, drawing them to it and encouraging them to strum the strings. He has sculpted several other stone harps, the start a limestone fountain with 36 "strings" of h2o. http://calvinbabich.com/
Let no sunriseyellow racket
Juan Batalla, artist, curator and mag correspondent from Buenos Aires, Argentine republic
3D, installation, not yet created
This piece represents some of the perspectives about our human relationship with beds, either for pleasure or for concrete or psychological issues. This piece will change its appearance during the bear witness, as spirit changes when imprisoned to a bed. Only, although looking different every bit time goes past, it will keep its basic shape. That decay is part of the intrinsic experience of "Let no sunrise yellowish noise". Title comes from verses by Emily Dickinson.
Untitled Grouping
Jamie Roggenbuck/Black River Public Schoolhouse, a Grand Valley State Academy Lease School, from The netherlands, MI
3D, steel, 2011
This project is a collaborative venture betwixt GVSU, Oxbow, and Blackness River Public School. Students worked with local steel artist Cynthia McKean and Dutch artist Cyril Lixenberg to create several steel sculptures. Students at Black River submitted designs for consideration, and the pinnacle concepts were chosen to exist used for the project. The 4-6 human foot tall sculptures explore positive and negative space.
Warden of Sorrow/Homage to Hieronymus Bosch
Leslie Bolyard, medal and stone artist from Howell, MI
3D, hammered iron and bandage stone, 2011
He was inspired past the work of Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, b. c.1450, d. August 1516. Leslie wanted to create a lasting three dimensional work in steel and stone which dealt with the bailiwick of morality and consequences as Bosch did. He created a sculpture based on one of the figures in Bosch's painting "The Temptation of Saint Anthony" c.1500. The piece is an iron and stone bird bath three x 3 x 5 foot tall. The figure volition be protected past a cage like enclosure.
"September Into October, Overlooking the Yard River"
James Brandess, artist from Saugatuck, MI
2D, oil on canvas
He painted a view of the Bluish Bridge on site. http://jamesbrandess.com/
Shattered
Kaitlin Brewer, creative person from Rowley, MA
2D, 3D, water colour and glue, not withal created
The installation piece "Shattered" is a perceptual experience that questions viewers' confidence and assumptions they bear about their own vision. Made with deceptively simple materials, this installation-cartoon creates a convincing illusion of shattered glass, yet upon closer inspection, simultaneously appears to concur together what it is breaking. http://www.kaitlinbrewer.com/
Reconstructing Fences
Michelle Calkins, painter, sculpture, and lensman and owner of Iv Corners Framing Company in The netherlands, MI
3D, stained/painted weather wood, non even so created
Michelle was 1 of our ArtPrize 2010 artists. This year'southward cosmos will be an 8 foot by iii foot 4 sided belfry built with an inner frame and layered on the outside with 1232 3.v inch square tiles cut from old fencing. Stained and painted various colors, it is a feast for the eyes. It is meant to transform something formerly constraining into a vibrant celebration of colour and to recycle something headed for the dump into something beautiful. Peepholes add an interactive dimension. http://world wide web.fourcornersframingco.com/
Hitting Me
Brian Ferriby, teacher, sculptor and artist from Farmington Hills, MI. Represented by the River Gallery in Chelsea
3D, polychrome steel, not however created
"Hitting Me" is an interactive sculpture, whereby the audience participates in the act of creation past attacking the sculpture measuring 6 x three ten 3h with an attached hammer. The form of the sculpture will be a steel rectangular solid, placed upon a pedestal, and filled with sand to deaden the loud sounds. Each of the surfaces of the sculpture will exist painted with an image of a famous piece of work of art that has been damaged by patrons while on display in museums. The sculpture volition have multiple layers of pigment, so that equally people hit the sculpture with the hammer, they volition non but change/create the form of the sculpture, but volition also reveal multiple colors, thereby creating the final work of art. http://www.chelsearivergallery.com/projects/brian-ferriby/
Holland Pantanemone (pan-tuh-nem'-uh-nee)
Dennis Foley, an award winning designer of furniture, lighting, recreational products and electronics and an creative person from Kingdom of the netherlands, MI.
3D, stainless steel, 2011
A pantanemone is a windmill with a fixed horizontal axis that allows the current of air veins to spin no matter what direction the air current comes from. The "Kingdom of the netherlands Pantanemone" is a kinetic sculpture, powered past the wind. It will measure 10' tall and 8' broad and volition be mounted 8' above the ground.
Colored Pencil
Kenneth Foster, sculptor from Nunica, MI
3D, mixed media
3D metallic cylindrical form structure approximately 8' high and 3' in diameter with pare of woven colorful recycled wire and cable. Kenneth was an creative person at our exhibition center during ArtPrize 2010.
"Teapot"
Scott Garrard, creative person and professor at Grand Rapids Customs College, from Grand Rapids, MI
3D, steel, not withal created
Scott is creating a nine'X6'X6' sculpture that resembles a very large teapot.
Lake Street Lovely
Michael Grucza, sculptor and fine fine art restorer from Chicago, IL
3D, Powder covered and painted aluminum, and stainless steel hardware, 2010
Lake Street Lovely is a study whose materials and shapes were inspired past the artist's honey for structures built of steel and rivets: Chicago bridges and rail lines. The Chicago River is crisscrossed by more than 180 unique bridges, each built with sensitivity and subtle aesthetics past engineers and unproblematic tradesman, who used steel panels, supports and rivets to create functional sculptures. Lake Street Lovely is his homage to those nameless, faceless ironworkers. It measures 15' high by 9' wide and 9' deep. http://www.gruczasculpture.com/
"Iceberg Flotilla" - Richard Herzog - WITHDRAWN
New Bone
Kathleen Houston-Stokes, Sculptor from Columbus, OH
3D, Limestone, 2009
A sacred symbol of Life is the subject thing of "New Os". Abstracted, organic os shaped stone resonates natural evolutionary and metamorphic change. This sculpture communicates a strong, grounded; intimate and spiritual Life force embedded with ancient wisdom that touches our primitive and guttural instincts of survival and senses of dazzler. It measures 53" ten 17" x sixteen". http://www.kathleenhouston-stokes.com/
"Tigerness"
Peter Koelsch, artist who also creates award winning video and blitheness work, from Metamora, OH
3D, bandage Aluminum/exterior house pigment, 2010
Peter intended to take this toy course and make a monumental class. He inverse features on the toy in the process of making the larger version to make it more noble and impressive. The form expresses force and aggressiveness, nevertheless it is also very inviting to look at because of its beautiful hyper-musculature. It measures eleven' long by 3' wide by 4.5' tall.
Mobius Garden Sculpture
Tune Lane, creative person from Branford, CT
3D, clay, 2010
Dirt sculpture with bronze patina, waterproofed. For garden, park or patio. It measures 24" high by 10" wide and deep. To explicate what a Mobius is: A Möbius strip made with a piece of newspaper and tape. If an ant were to crawl forth the length of this strip, information technology would return to its starting signal having traversed every part of the strip (on both sides of the original paper) without ever crossing an edge. http://melodylanestudio.com/
Jockey
Michael Maguire, professor and national and international artist from Superior, WI
3D, ceramic, non nevertheless created
Michael has been constructing contemporary "mythic creatures:" figurative sculptures visually rooted in the prehistoric and medieval imagery of Ireland. Currently, he has been moving towards a modern day arroyo to his mythic creatures. Betting on horses is mutual amusement in Republic of ireland. His figures are taking a humorous approach to the jockeys. Brusque, lite weight, and colorful silks to long legged, heavy, and nontraditional colors. In a way, cartoon looking creatures would be a good clarification. "Jockey" will stand 7 to eight anxiety loftier. http://www.maguire-studios.com/
The Phoenix
Cynthia McKean, artist from Saugatuck, MI
3D, structural steel, not yet created
Cynthia showed her sculpture "Friends" at our venue during ArtPrize 2010. Her entry for 2011, "The Phoenix" is symbolic of the struggles we are experiencing in Michigan as our manufacturing base of operations has been and continues to be challenged to its cadre. Michigan's economic system has cycled through good times and bad. Each fourth dimension it has recovered, its renewed prosperity has been based upon technology from before. This opportunity for rebirth and rebuilding is what she wants her sculpture to represent. Although there are still remnants of the old, a beautiful new form is rising from the ashes and soaring toward the future. It measures xviii' 10 18' ten 20'. http://cynthiamckean.com/
Exist Still and Know IV
John Merigian, creative person from Superior Twp., MI. Represented by LaFontsee Gallery
3D, welded corten steel
"Exist Still and Know" is permanently installed on our Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus. John participated with us during ArtPrize 2010. This year his goal is to create a site specific 32 foot alpine sculpture of a figure looking up, reaching out very slightly, and in stillness presents us with hope. http://johnmerigian.com/
Uncertainty
Stephen Montague, artist from Columbus, OH
3D, mixed, logs, industrial casters, and strapping, 2011
Ten logs, each 15' ten one', volition have industrial casters bolted to the bottom of each log. The logs will then exist set upright and lashed together. The logs, the natural element, will be supported by an industrial or manmade element, the wheels. The logs are lashed together in an obvious way every bit non to hibernate the reason they are standing. To attain an upright position each log relies on one some other, because divided they would fall. About of the artist's work has a contextual association to the surround in which information technology has been created. The affluence of Michigan's forests, the logs, and One thousand Rapids industrial base, the casters, serve as inspiration for the materials in this simple sculpture. Nature rests on a man-made solution.
In Progress
Marcia Perry, artist from Saugatuck, MI
iii-D, Tree trunk forest craving
Marcia's piece volition evolve during ArtPrize making the creative deed a true operation of fine art in add-on to the piece of work produced. As well volition be interactive with others. http://marciaperrystudio.wix.com/mperry#!
The seven Chief Clans of the Anishinabe
Jason Quigno, stone sculptor from Jenison, MI
3D, rock, not yet created
The sculpture Jason will be creating will be of the 7 Primary Clans of the Anishinabe people: Crane, Loon, Bear, Turtle, Martin, Fish, and Birds. He will be putting all of these figures gracefully into 1 tall slice of Limestone measuring seven' x three' x 1'.
Creation Stories
Howard Riopelle, creative person and college professor from Manchester, MD
3D, stainless steel, not nonetheless created
Howard's entry is a 12-fourteen pes "Totem Like" structure made of stainless steel. Semi-abstruse yet recognizable designs will tell the story of the great turtle spirit that holds up the world and this sculpture. It will relate how the maiden fell from the heaven and was saved by the swans. How the world began and how human being came to detect the dominicus and the moon. The Grand River, the animals, the salmon, and the peoples of this area are all office of the inspiration for this work.
River Metropolis Improv, an improvisational comedy team that has been performing clean, clever, improv since 1994
On Saturday, September 24, at iii:00 p.m. River Metropolis Improv congratulated you on a job well done. Everyone was invited to run or walk the length of the Blue Bridge while doting fans cheered you on to whatever accomplishment yous wanted to gloat. It could be for whatever reason from beating cancer, finding a new job, commemorating an anniversary or mowing the lawn. It was a wonderful celebration and photos were taken after the "race".
Work collaborators are Rick Treur, Melissa Allen, Michele Dykstra, Tracey Kooy, Dave Lyzenga, Wendy Nance, Russ Roozeboom, Mike Ryskamp, Jeff VanHaitsma, and Marty Wondergem. http://rivercityimprov.com/
Please practise not vote for me
Dale Rogers, award winning metal sculptor from Haverhill, MA
3-D, COR-Ten metallic sculptures, 2011
During ArtPrize 2010 Dale displayed his "Large Domestic dog Evidence". During that time he came up with the idea of monkeys hanging from the Bluish Bridge. Each monkey is 4 1/2 feet tall, ii feet wide and 6 inches deep and each weighs about 30 pounds. They are made of steel and are designed to oxidize into a rich brown color. 100 monkeys will hang in groupings of two or 3 from the Blueish Bridge. They can hang from each other's tails and some even hang upside down. http://www.dalerogersstudio.com/
Galatea
Adam Schultz, sculptor from LaPorte, CO
3D, statuary, 2008
In ancient Greek mythology, in that location was a sculptor named Pygmalion who was unable to detect a adult female to be with who wasn't in some way flawed. And and so, he decided to sculpt the"perfect" woman, and he chosen her Galatea. Many people in our modern society often accept a narrow definition of what is beautiful equally far as the human effigy is concerned. In fact, the notion that the "beautiful" body is a "skinny body" is but a recent manifestation in our history, resulting in problems such as anorexia, bulimia, depression and bigotry against people of size. Galatea, the first in Adams latest trunk of work, the 'goddess series' involves reinterpreting various female figures out of ancient mythology, rendering them in a contemporary, rubenesque affect. Through creating images of female figures that are typically greeted with negativity, and rendering them with a certain confidence and sensuality, I remind the viewer that beauty comes in the wondrous delightful diversity seen in every body. "Galatea" measures 48" alpine.
Erwin
John Schwarz, teacher and creative person from Chelsea, MI. Represented past River Gallery, Chelsea MI
3D, multi-media assemblage, 2011
Erwin is a 6 pes by six human foot fantasy crocodile creature assembled with everyday mundane constitute objects. 90% of this creature is recycled materials from local reuse centers and garage sales. Whenever possible John left the colors of parts original. Only the nuts, bolts and rivets are new.
John'southward creative creatures accept shown up for every ArtPrize on our campus. Twelvemonth 2009 the "Soft-tail Goose" was on brandish and in 2010 "Tigerfish" made an appearance. http://www.chelsearivergallery.com/projects/john-schwarz/
"The Veteran
Mike Sohikian, creative person from Genoa, OH
3D, steel, stone, physical, 2008
"The Veteran" is a depiction of a soldiers conflicted feelings of wholeness, disengagement, and patriotism after a tour of duty. Information technology measures 9'6" ten 3'.
Win, Win, Wind
Richard Vanderveen, President of Mackinaw Ability, LLC, from Lowell, MI
3D, turbine blade, composites and paint, 2011
"Win, Win Air current!" volition nowadays a kinetic sculpture utilizing a state-of-the-art wind turbine blade to demonstrate why new, zero-emissions wind power can draw upon the all-time artistic, spiritual and design values to solve current free energy bug. "Win, Win Wind!" volition educate citizens from all walks of life, especially young people, nearly the demand to protect our Dandy Lakes for future generations.
To Hope
William Walther, sculptor from Muskegon, MI
3D, made steel, not however created
A short dialog on the concept of getting better—to hope. Promise virtually hurt and healing. The artist used the leg because information technology'southward a big billboard in the air to stand for tears and pain coming from the trunk. The leg with tears is knobby kneed and a different color than the remainder of the body. The other leg is potent and muscular. He looks at injure and healing as a biological event and a psychological process—the tears are all negative spaces—not something that y'all can touch, just run across. The tears/hurt in the head divides and unites; it takes both sides of the head to define the tear shape—a thought, a feeling, a awareness—there and not there. "To Hope" measures 6.5' loftier past viii.v' long and iv' deep. http://williamwalther.com/
"EM"
John Warner, designs abstruse sculpture, jewelry, article of furniture, and metal fabrication. From Walker, MI
3D, Salvaged stainless steel, 2011
Site specific, large (7-10 feet) abstract outdoor sculpture made of salvaged semi-polished ringlet-formed stainless steel tubing.
Artists located at the Front end Avenue under US-131 Venue that we are in collaboration with for ArtPrize
Art Stacks /Landscape Mural
Tim Travis/Saugatuck High Schoolhouse, Saugatuck, MI
3-D, ceramic, 2011
Colorful and creative ceramics stacked on poles.
W Michigan University of Arts and Academics, GVSU charter school located in Leap Lake, MI
2-D, mural in chalk and soft pastels, non yet created
Students will create a quad tic mural on the walls of the underpass done in sections.
Source: https://www.gvsu.edu/artgallery/artprize-2011-49.htm
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