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| "Let Down Your Hair" |
| “Stadt Paradies”
exhibit in Darmstadt, Germany |
| Installed in a 16th
c. castle |
| Curated by Ute Ritschel |
| 2005 |
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| This project was
inspired by the Rapunzel fairy tale by the Brother
Grimm, and its themes of beauty, vision and longing. |
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| "Through Veins"
(Gail Simpson) |
| Madison Water Utility
Building, Madison WI |
| Stainless Steel,
granite 8' h. |
| 2005 |
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| This sculpture is
inspired by water moving underground. The water cycle is
represented by the cone form, which is interrupted in
two parts because there are two aquifers under the
Madison area. The sections are offset, the way a pencil
appears broken inside a glass of water. Water cascades
over the rocks and supplies the small landscape above. |
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| “Trojan Piggybank” |
| Navy Pier, Chicago, IL |
| 2004 |
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| The pleasures of
consumer culture are accompanied by less-desirable
social consequences. When we impose one way of life onto
another, the bad goes along with the good. The playful
piggybank has a hidden agenda. |
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| "Volumes" |
| Hedberg Public Library,
Janesville, WI |
| 2003 |
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| "Volumes" is a series of
sculptural elements placed in a landscaped berm formed
by a rock wall. Wrapping around the rear parking area of
the library, the berm is at its highest point at the
corner, and tapers at each end. Three and four foot high
CorTen steel books are clustered within granite
boulders, plants, shrubs and groundcovers. The books
bear in relief the titles of popular children's books,
as chosen by the children who use the Hedberg Library. |
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| "Mirage" |
Elvehjem Museum of Art,
Madison WI
Pierwalk 03, Navy Pier, Chicago IL |
| 2003 |
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| "Mirage" is based on a
classic Midwestern rural icon, the barn. The sides are
being cut away by a cityscape, outlined in red and
glowing from within. The piece refers to the nostalgia
people have for the supposedly-simpler "country life",
which is being overtaken by encroaching urbanization. |
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| “Afterimage” |
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South Park Street
Bus Station, Madison WI
“Blink” Temporary Public Art Project, Madison CitiArts |
| 2004 |
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| This sculpture is a
geometric cluster with the profiles of a farm: a barn, a
silo, and a shed excised from the centers of the wood
structures. The voids produced at the center of the
forms refer to the vanishing small farms that are
central to the identity of Madison and its surroundings. |
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| “Beneath the Skin” |
Laboratory Science
Building, University of Wisconsin – Green Bay
Wisconsin % for Art Program |
| 2004 |
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| This project is a
multi-site sculpture that is inspired partially by the
type of work done in the Laboratory Sciences Building,
and by its specific spatial quality. The sculpture is
based on (but does not represent) several natural forms,
originating both inside the human body and in the
outdoor environment. |
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"Compass"
Gail Simpson |
| North Ave. at Cambridge,
Milwaukee WI |
| 2003 |
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| This sculpture takes the
form of a destination pole with a spiraling cluster of
signs related to this East Side neighborhood's history
and personality. The signs were inspired by the visual
texture of the older streetscape that is still visible
amidst the new, including older signs from businesses
and merchants that are still present as the
neighborhoods have made transitions. These signs are
often unusually shaped and colored, and are evidence of
the individuals and places that give a neighborhood its
own flavor. The typefaces and shapes represent different
time periods and styles. The pole is a recycled light
post from the highway removal project. |
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