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Floating Memories Béatrice Coron September 8, 2008 - December 3, 2008 Béatrice Coron’s twenty-four iconic scenes were hand cut on black & white Tyvek, a lightweight waterproof paper. Four scrolls will hung freely from the top of the tower. Each scroll made two long flaps with three paper-cut images on each side. Each cutout image was a window that invited the passerby to peek through invoking memories and dreams of Scottsdale and the southwest.
Coron was born and raised in France and studied at the University of Lyon III and Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France. After living in Egypt and Mexico, she found her creative home in New York City. Her work using the cutout method has been featured in numerous exhibitions around the world. Often working in the book arts, Coron’s work can be found in museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Bibliotheque Nationale of France. Her public art commissions include the Burke Avenue train station, NYC and the Kostner subway station in Chicago, IL. Coron loves that the public realm allows her to reintroduce story telling to a broad audience. She seeks opportunities to turn local characteristics into stories and local imagery into meaningful iconic themes. For more on the artist’s work please go to www.beatricecoron.com
Robots in Flight Toby Atticus Fraley Toby Fraley recycles vintage household items such as coffee thermoses, vacuum cleaners and picnic jugs into art. Fraley created a new series of Robots for this installation. In the bell tower the Robots rode rockets, glided, parachuted to safety and sailed on rusti
Bubble Fountain Melissa McGurgan &
When a passerby walked through the bell tower, scented bubbles (alternating citrus, mint, salt water) drifted down creating a fun and refreshing atmosphere to greet the onset of summer. Mellisa McGurgan and Marco Rosichelli recognized the appeal and fascination of water to the desert dweller. Water cools, cleanses, and entertains. This fountain without flowing water invoked a universal playground for the senses.
Bubble Fountain Blog - blog with the creators of the Bubble Fountain McGurgan and Rosichelli, who both reside in Tempe, AZ, are experienced and active artists within the Valley community. Both have constructed and installed sculptural work in numerous galleries and museums. McGurgan’s MORE OR LESS CAMPAIGN 2006 was featured in the ASU Art Museum’s New American City exhibition. Rosichelli’s Trojan Bike appeared at the ASU Art Museum and the gallery of Jarbas Lopes: Cicloviaérea in November 2007. Both work as art educators at Arizona State University where they involve classes with public art assignments.
Barn Devil
Christopher Fennell brought together the iconic desert image of a dust devil and reclaimed barn wood to create a powerful sculpture, activated and defined the bell tower space. Fennel was first inspired to build large installations from salvaged materials after getting a job tearing down a condemned barn during his college years when he gathered the wood on the job site to create his first artwork of this type. Since then, Fennell has continued to use and be inspired by cast off materials that have a history. He holds degrees in both sculpture and mechanical engineering from the University of South Florida and currently resides in Birmingham, AL. For more on the artist’s work go to www.cfennell.org
Photo Luminescent Sound Garden Todd Ingalls and Mary Neubauer Todd Ingalls and Mary Neubauer joined to create a suspended garden responsive to human motion—intertwining music, light and form. Six translucent layered forms with a photo-luminescent surface absorbed
sunlight and emitted a glow at night, echoing night-blooming desert flowers. Pedestrians activated additional illuminations and soft bell-like tones, moving the space from contemplative to active. Each sculpture had over fifty layers of laser cut photo-luminescent material and edge-glow plastic mounted on light tubes. The tubes diffused LED strip lighting that responds in a lively random sequence to passing pedestrians, which then ramped down to a low illumination mode if no motion was detected after twenty minutes. Simultaneous to responsive lighting, motion also notified an audio sequence – sounding like electronically altered bells in the distance. Media Composer Todd Ingalls, on faculty at the Arizona State University School of Arts, Media and Engineering, works in mediums of interactive performance and installations, developing computer generated music and modeling sonic environments. Ingalls’ research focuses on gestural communication as well as biofeedback for rehabilitation. Artist Mary Neubauer, on faculty at the Arizona State University Sculpture Department, creates sculpture, digital prints and other prototype animations that focus on hidden aspects of our surroundings, including data streams of environmental and human cycles. Expanding the definition of sculpture, Neubauer works to reveal long-term patterns in global phenomena, enhance sensitivity of invisible structures, and contribute understanding through attributes of organizations and environments. For more about the artists
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