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Presented by Scottsdale Public Art with the support of Clarence and Lona Furuya at the Scottsdale Mall, 7373 E. 2nd Street. Current Installation: Why Should I be Sad? A sculptural storm cloud, with dangling glassy raindrops and emerging light, gracefully hovers overhead. The artist confesses that rainy, dark, gray days are amongst her least favorite. The presence of rain often means the absence of the sun from our sight. But she realizes that rain, especially precious in the desert, in conjunction with sunlight brings life. Her artwork engages reflection on rainy deluges - on feelings of overwhelming sadness, thunderous resonances, the provocative imaginings in the shapes and movements of clouds, and the possibilities of renewal. The artist chose Coroplast and acrylic as the primary materials to carry forth her concept of a storm cloud. She thinks conceptual first and then turns to practicality. For this project she needed materials that were lightweight, white and clear, able to reflect light or be translucent, durable to the environment, and safe to passing pedestrians. Her research and brainstorming led to this evocative realization of her sculpture. Melissa Martinez lives and works in Tempe. She received a BFA in Sculpture at Arizona State University in 1999. Her works has been represented at 515: a contemporary art space in Phoenix and at Art One and Kim Adams Fine Art Representation in Scottsdale. She has also completed several large installations at the California Museum of Photography, Mesa Contemporary Arts and Phoenix Art Museum. For Scottsdale Public Art, she previously created Pollination as part of the storefront initiative IN FLUX (scottsdalepublicart.org/INFLUX.php).
Upcoming Installations A Tree Grows in Scottsdale Climbing up the yellow wall is a squishy, ropey trunk of twined jean-legs, which opens up into spreading limbs that weave their way into the rafters overhead. Hanging down from the branches are fleshy soft-sculpture leaves, fruit and some brilliantly-colored birds formed from cast-off Hawaiian shirts. The huge soft sculpture tree seeks to take over the building, growing up from under the concrete. Swing An interactive installation invites viewers to play with time. On the wall pendulums swing to musical rhythms while the motion draws the eye to whimsical poetic words of science. Through interactivity, sound, color, text, ideas of momentum and kinetic energy, a conversation with a quark manifests in a new context. The viewer pushes a pendulum and it begins.
View Previous Installations: Cycle 1
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