If you’re heading down to Seattle Center for Winterfest or for holiday shows like Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Nutcracker, we thought you might like to know a bit about the artwork hanging overhead at McCaw Hall. New York artist Sarah Sze created An Equal and Opposite Reaction for the grand lobby… [ Keep reading ]
The mobile artwork There’s No Place Like Home, also known as the Blue House, will travel to Seattle Center for Winterfest at 4 p.m, Saturday, Nov. 24 and to the Green Lake Festival of Lights on Saturday, Dec. 8. Created by Lucia Neare’s Theatrical Wonders, the nearly 14-foot-tall Victorian house is accompanied… [ Keep reading ]
Artist and storyteller Roger Fernandes created the artwork Snoqual/Moon the Transformer as a new gateway to the entry of the Thomas Street Pedestrian Bridge at Thomas Street and Third Avenue West in Seattle’s Lower Queen Anne neighborhood. The artwork will be publicly dedicated at 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18. Fernandes… [ Keep reading ]
Celebrating the beauty of autumn and the falling leaves, here’s Seattle artist Bruce Myers’ Leaf Legend created in 1997 as part of three interconnected artworks at Discovery Park Visitor Center (built in 1993). The artwork consists of more than 100 sand cast bronze leaves set into the concrete. Meyers embedded… [ Keep reading ]
After three years of construction, the Spokane Street Viaduct Widening Project is nearly complete. At a public dedication, 9 to 10 a.m, Friday, Nov. 16, SODO by Santa Monica, Calif.-artist team merge conceptual design (Claudia Reisenberger and Franka Diehnelt) will be unveiled, along with new sidewalks and landscaping in the lower roadway… [ Keep reading ]
In honor of Election Day, here’s Richard Marquis’ patriotically-themed blown glass Retro Stuff – Stars and Stripes Tea Pot #10 (or coffee pot, however you want to see it…) from 1997. “His teapots are the one body of work that continues throughout Marquis’ career beginning in the mid-1960s when he… [ Keep reading ]
In the spirit of Halloween, here’s a spooky artwork in the Seattle City Light 1% for Art Portable Works Collection. The acrylic-on-paper painting The Devil as a Joker (1982) by Ted Wiprud can hardly be labeled as minimal in approach or statement. The devil figure visually consumes the surface of… [ Keep reading ]
Two sculptures now mark the location of the Chief Sealth Trail, on the east and west sides, where the trail crosses Beacon Avenue South and South Dawson Street on Beacon Hill. In Cloud Rider by Seattle artist Dan Webb, two bicycle riders wearing gold-leafed wings on their backs rise from… [ Keep reading ]
On Sunday, October 21, Ellen Sollod’s latest work was installed in the Seattle cityscape. Origami Tessellation 324.3.4 (Fractured), a 28-foot-tall cylinder of stainless steel, was placed in the median of Mercer Street at Boren Avenue North. We asked Sollod a few questions about the work; you’ll find her answers below, mixed in… Filed Under: Art Beat, Public Art
In this election season, with an upcoming vote for this state’s governor, we thought we’d feature a public artwork created in honor of the second governor of Washington state, Governor John Harte McGraw. The full-length, historic, bronze statue stands in McGraw Place near Westlake Center, bordered by Stewart Street, Fifth… [ Keep reading ]
