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Maria Artemis is an Atlanta based Artist. She was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, and received her BA in Psychology from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, her MFA from the University of Georgia, and an MS from the College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology. Artemis taught for over 25 years at the Atlanta College of Art, and has been a guest speaker and lecturer at numerous universities, conferences, and panels, including Visiting Professor at Agnes Scott College; Program Presenter for the National Sculpture Conference, Ohio; Keynote Speaker for the 11th Annual School Art Symposium, Athens, Georgia; Visiting Artist at Harvard University School of Design; and an Artist-in-Residence in Cortona, Italy.
Artemis is the recipient of many awards, grants and commissions. She most recently received the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgias Working Artist Award-09 which included a solo exhibition in August-September 09, and was included in the Georgia Council for the Arts 2009 Publication, Georgia Masterpieces: Selected Works from Georgias Museums. Other awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Mayors Fellowship in the Arts Award, Georgia Women in the Visual Arts Award, and a Ford Foundation Grant.
Artemis maintains both an active studio and public art practice.
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MARIA ARTEMIS
martemis_mindspring.com
www.mariaartemis.com
675 Drewry Street, Studio #9
Atlanta, Georgia 30306
EDUCATION
1991 MS, Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Architecture, Atlanta, Georgia
1977 MFA, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
1969 BA, Psychology, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia
AWARDS and COMMISSIONS
2009-13 Charlotte Area Transit System, Art in Transit-Parkwood Station, Charlotte, NC
2009 Inclusion in Publication: Georgia Masterpieces: Selected Works from Georgia Museums.
2008-10 The Clear Creek Combined Sewer Basin Relief Project and North Avenue Park, Atlanta
Beltline Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
2008-09 The Museum of Contemporary Art, Working Artist Award, Atlanta, Georgia, Solo Exhibition,
August 09
2008 Northside Hospital Womens Health Center Exterior Plaza Entrance Fountain, Forsyth County,
Architects, Howell Rusk Dodson. Completion, Summer, 2008
2008-09 Hamilton Mill Library, [LEED certified] Gwinnett County, GA Design with Precision Planning
Architects, completion, Winter 09
2006-2008 Donald Lee Hollowell Memorial Water Park ,City of Atlanta Office of Parks Recreation and Cultural Affairs, Commission for Center Hill Park-Atlanta, Georgia
2006 City of Plano, Oak Point Park and Land Preserve Reception Center Lobby, Finalist, Plano, TX
2005 City of Belfast Public Art Commission, Broadway Junction, Finalist, Belfast, Ireland
2005 Eastern Oregon University site-specific sculpture, Finalist, Eugene, Oregon
2005 Washington DC Art in Public Places Commission, Starburst Plaza, Finalist, Washington DC
2005 Prentice Womens Hospital, interior water wall, Finalist, Chicago, Illinois
2004 Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport, new International Concourse Collar Bench
Proposal, Finalist, City of Atlanta Airport Art Program, Atlanta, Georgia
1999-2003 Interfaith Chapel, Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport, City of Atlanta Airport Art
Commission, Atlanta, Georgia
1999-2001 Epigenesis, General Services Administration Art-in Architecture commission, Center for
Disease Control and Prevention, Environmental Health Lab, Chamblee, Georgia
1998 Brenau University, site-specific sculpture, Gainesville, Georgia
1997 Georgia Women in the Visual Arts Award
1996 Mayors Fellowship in the Arts Award in Visual Arts, Atlanta, Georgia
1996 Fulton County Grant, Hambidge Center for the Arts Residency, Atlanta, Georgia
1996 Unknown Remembered Gate, Agnes Scott College, site-specific sculpture, Decatur, Georgia
1995-1996 Ex-Static, CODA [Corp. for Olympic Development in Atlanta] project for Civic Center Spur
Streetscape at W. Peachtree & Pine Streets, Atlanta, Georgia
1994-1995 Memorial to Crime Victims and Public Safety Officers Who Die in the Line of Duty, City of Atlanta Public
Art Commission, Atlanta Detention Center, Atlanta, Georgia
1994 Labyrinths, Bureau of Cultural Affairs, City of Atlanta, Artist Project Grant
1993 Georgia Council for the Arts, Artist Grant
1991 Redesigning Peachtree Street, International Design Competition, Honorable Mention, Atlanta, Georgia
1988 National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship Grant, Sculpture
1987 Sculpture Award, Permanent Site Work Commission, City of Atlanta, BCA, Arts Festival,
Atlanta, Georgia
1985 Regional On Site Work Grant, Atlanta Arts Festival, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia
1977 Ford Foundation Grant, Graduate Study, MFA Program, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
1976 Purchase Award, North Carolina National Bank, Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
EMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2008 Metropolitan Atlanta Arts and Culture Coalition panel
2008 College Arts Association panel presenter, Dallas, TX
1992-2006 Adjunct Professor, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
2003 Art and Architecture Panel, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia
2000-2005 Metropolitan Public Art Coalition, Board Member, Chair 2004, Atlanta, Georgia
1996-1997 Artist in Residence and Visiting Professor, Spring Semester, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia
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1995 Visiting Artist, SUNY at Fredonia, Fredonia, New York
EMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (continued)
1996 Conference: Chaos Theory and the Arts and Humanities, Respondent, National Arts
Journalism Program, University of Georgia, Athens Georgia
1994 Piedmont Park Design Advisory Committee, Atlanta, Georgia
1993 Visiting Artist, Architectural Review, School of Design, Harvard University, Boston,
Massachusetts
1992-93 Freedom Parkway Landscape Advisory Committee, Atlanta, Georgia
1990-93 Mayors Green Ribbon Committee, (study and recommendation for Atlanta City Parks), Atlanta,
Georgia
1986-88, 91, 96 Visiting Professor, Department of Art, Agnes Scott College; Decatur, Georgia
1990 Panel Participant Symposium: The Art of The Public Environment, Sponsored by: The American
Society of Landscape Architects, Georgia Chapter, and ARS Natura Magazine, Atlanta, Georgia
1990 Panel Moderator: Expanding the Definitions; panel of Artist recipients of the Southern Arts
Federation NEA Regional Fellowships in Sculpture, Atlanta, Georgia
1990 New South Group, Artist Initiated Projects, Board of Directors, Treasurer, Atlanta, Georgia
1989 Keynote Speaker, 11th Annual School Art Symposium, Georgia Museum of Art, University of
Georgia, Athens, Georgia
1987 Program Presenter, National Sculpture Conference: Works by Women Cincinnati, Ohio
1986-98,99 Guest Artist, Graduate Studio Jury, Georgia Tech, College of Architecture, Atlanta, Georgia
1983 Lecturer, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
1979-1981 Instructor, Atlanta College of Art, Sabbatical Replacement, Atlanta, Georgia
1980 Artist-in-Residence, Summer Sites, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem,
North Carolina
1979 Artist in Residence, University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy
1979 Visiting Artist, University of Wisconsin, Superior, Wisconsin
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Events That Rhyme, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
2000 Heavy Levity, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1998 Working At the Threshold, The Presidents Gallery, Brenau University, Gainesville, Georgia
1994 Labyrinths: Event, Distillation, Artifact. Tulla Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1987 Works on Paper, University of Central Florida Gallery, Orlando, Florida
1983 Studio/Paradigm: Installation, 1200 Foster Street, Atlanta, Georgia
1981 New Work, Kipnis: Works of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
1980 Two Installations, Third Floor Gallery, Nexus Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
1979 Recent Work, University of Wisconsin, Superior, Wisconsin
SELECTED INSTALLATIONS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Twenty Georgia Masters, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia
2005 Regarding 100, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2005 Accelerating Sequence, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia
2004 Talking Furniture Design, Museum of Design, Atlanta, Georgia
2003 Emory Chair Project, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
2002 Exhibition from the permanent collection, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia
1998 Event Horizon, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1998 The Avant Garde Revisited, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
1998 Drawn From Nature; A Contemporary Response to the Natural World, Agnes Scott College, Dalton
Gallery, Decatur, Georgia
1993-06 Faculty Exhibition, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1991 Vital Signs, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1989 Installations and Drawings, The New South Group, The Exhibition Space at 112 Greene St., New York, NY
1989 City on a Hill, Twenty Years of Artists at Cortona, Traveling exhibition, Georgia Museum of Art,
Athens, Georgia; Palazzo Casali, Cortona, Italy; Church of San Stae, Venice, Italy
1988 Contemporary Artists in Georgia, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
1987 Open Axis, Permanent Site Work Commission, City of Atlanta and The Arts Festival of Atlanta,
1985 Analemma, Site-integrated Installation, Arts Festival of Atlanta, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia
1984 Avant Garde/12 in Atlanta-Five Years Later, Heath Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
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1982 Southeastern Invitational, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina
SELECTED INSTALLATIONS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS (continued)
1980 Atlanta Women's Art Collective at A.I.R., A.I.R. Gallery, New York, New York
1979 Avant Garde/12 in Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
1979 Mostra, Palazzo Vagnotti, Cortona, Italy
1978 34th Annual Scripps Invitational Ceramic Exhibition, Lang Art Gallery, Claremont, California
1977 45th Southeastern Painting and Sculpture Competition,Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
COLLECTIONS
Alston & Byrd, Corporate Collection, Atlanta, Georgia
Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia
Brenau University, Gainesville, Georgia
City of Atlanta, Georgia
Columbia Museum of Art and Science, Columbia, South Carolina
Chattahoochee Valley Art Association, LaGrange, Georgia
Fulton County Arts Council Public Art Collection, Atlanta, Georgia
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
King & Spalding, Corporate Collection, Atlanta, Georgia
Lannon Foundation of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia
North Carolina National Bank, Charlotte, North Carolina
Portman Hotel Company, Atlanta, Georgia
University of Georgia, Student Union, Athens, Georgia
Numerous private collections
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
2009 Georgia Masterpieces: Selected Works from Georgia Museums, National Endowment for the
Arts Publication.
2005 Cullum, Jerry, "Reviews: Accelerating Sequence: Artists Observe Time and Aging," Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, March 6, 2005, pg. L3
2002 "Public Art in Review," Art in America, 2002 Guide, August 2002, pg. 42.
2002 Cochran, Rebecca Dimling, "Reviews: Epigenesis," Sculpture Magazine, September, 2002, pp. 34-35
2000 Byrd, Cathy, "Reviews: Heavy Levity, Sculpture Magazine, September, 2000, pp. 61-62
1999 Cullum, Jerry, Reviews: Event Horizon, Marcia Wood Gallery, Art Papers, Jan/Feb, 1999, pp. 48-49
1998 Cullum, Jerry, Reviews: Event Horizon, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 31, 1998, p Q7
1997 Bloomfield, Anna, "Engaging the Site," Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine, Summer, 1997 pp. 50-51
1997 "Sculpture in Harmony with its Site," monograph, Agnes Scott Alumnae Magazine, spring, 1997, p. 4
1997 Commissions: Ex-Static, Sculpture Magazine, January 1997, p. 11.
1994 Bickerton, Jane, Maria Artemis and Eleanor Hovda: Labyrinths, Art Papers,
November/December 1994, Vol. 18, No. 6, P. 41-42.
1994 Cullum, Jerry, "Labyrinths, Explores art of the body, mind," Atlanta Journal Constitution, July 8,
1994 p P16
1990 Young, Donna, "Working Maps of Reality: Three Artists, ARS NATURA, Georgia Journal of
Landscape Architects, Vol. 3, #1, Feb, 1990
1989 New South Group Exhibition, Artist Book/Catalog, 112 Greene St. New York, NY and New
Visions Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1989 City on a Hill, Twenty Years of Artists at Cortona, Catalog, Georgia Museum of Art, The
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1989
1989 Crowe, Ann Glenn, "New South Group," Art Papers, March/April, 1989
1988 Dimitropoulos, Harris, "Maria Artemis/ OPEN AXIS/ Inspection- Configuration," Art Papers,
Vol., 12, No. 5, pp. 47-48.
1986 Jones, Virginia Watson, Contemporary American Women Sculptors, Onyx Press, 1988.
1983 -present Who's Who in American Art
1981 Kipnis, Jeff, "Maria Artemis," Art Voices, May/June, 1981, p.41
1980 Howett, John, "Converge/Converse, Marcia R. Cohen and Maria Artemis," The Atlanta Art
Workers' Coalition Newspaper, Jan/Feb, 1980, p. 12.
1979 The Avant Garde/12 in Atlanta, Catalog, Published by the High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, 1979.
1979 Langer, Sandra, "The Avant Garde/12 in Atlanta," Contemporary Art/Southeast, Vol. II, No.4 and 5
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Process
Artist Statement: My work springs from the desire to give form and structure to the unseen life of the everyday to reveal the unrecognized wonders of the particular and invite viewers, with me, to discover a new relationship to what we think we already know. By its very nature, this activity of investigation, study and discovery is open-ended.
The various attributes of the work, including the materials used and scale all become a fertile language to engage the viewer viscerally.
The material choices and technologies used evolve in tandem with current conceptual investigations. The resulting work ranges in scale from large scale mixed media installations to small mixed media studies on paper and sculptural pieces in stone, steel and various found, or recycled materials. My studio work and public art practice inform each other.
Public Art Process: I am committed to an open, dynamic approach to place making through public art and welcome the challenges and creative possibilities of integrating artwork into the urban environment. My interest in creating works of this kind has grown over the past 19 years since studying the discipline of Architecture as an adjunct to my work as a sculptor [MS 1991, GA Institute of Technology].
Through my public art practice, I engage people in the course of their everyday lives inviting their participation physically as well as mentally. My approach is to understand the multi-leveled context of the site in which the work will grow. In addition to a study of its architectural context, I research the sites history geologically, ecologically, and socially, its present uses, as well as its potential for the future. My intention is, to incorporate the work into the fabric of the particular site revealing it in a fresh way to those who experience it. When a particular community is served, their values and concerns are a part of the works context. My goal is for the work to become a dynamic conversation with its surroundings and also to create a vital, engaging place to be, now and in the future.
Collaborating with engineers, fabricators and other design professionals when needed, I draw from a wide range of materials and fabrication technologies, welcoming opportunities to use new techniques and materials appropriate to each project. Materials used require minimal maintenance and are able to withstand the changing weather conditions of various environments.
As an artist-consultant on large public works projects, I work on design teams with Architects, Landscape Architects and Planners. In this capacity I identify opportunities and develop plans for artistic engagement with the purpose of integrating the utility of the project with a larger sense of place.
Links
Images of the North Avenue Park by Atlanta Beltline, Inc
Events that Rhyme at MOCA-GA
International Sculpture Center directory
Secondsonend.com - CD Cover by Maria Artemis
News
Georgia Masterpieces:
Selected Works from Georgia Museums
Art In America
Georgia Tech Alumni
Newsletter article
Sculptor Magazine
Review of Epigenesis
Building of America Award
Contact:
Maria Artemis
Artemis Studios, LLC
Installation of granite elements for North Plaza Fountain
Detail of North Plaza Fountain
North Plaza Fountain in process
Artist supervising placement of stones at Water Wall
Site drawing for North Avenue Park
North Avenue Park
Clear Creek Reservoir and Storm Water Relief Project
Date: 2008 - Fall, 2010
Media: stone, water
Dimensions: varied
Commissioning Agent: Atlanta Beltline, Inc.
Construction on this project is in process. As Artist-Consultant on the design team Artemis identified opportunities and developed plans for artistic engagement with the purpose of integrating the utility of the project with a larger sense of place. This work includes three sites in the park. One is a seventeen foot high thirty foot long water wall, and the other a water feature using local granite. The third site for artistic enhancement is a sculpture plaza with integrated paving. The Storm Water Reservoir and Park is scheduled to be completed in November, 2010.
This project is part of the new Historic Fourth Ward Park now under construction. Click here for images of this work in progress.
The water park memorial with children at play
Detail of water park
The three water seats in park with dedication stone in the background
Water Seat Detail
Child playing with one of the water seats
Standing memorial stone with biographical pavers
Dedication stone for Donald Lee Hollowell
Donald Lee Hollowell Memorial Water Park
Center Hill Park
Date: 2006 - 2008
Media: stone, water custom pavers, concrete
Dimensions: 10' x 90' x 110'
Commissioning Agent: City of Atlanta, Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs
Completed in November 2008, The Donald Lee Hollowell Memorial water Park is a neighborhood park renovation for the City of Atlanta. The plaza includes a Memorial to civil rights lawyer and activist, Donald Lee Hollowell and an interactive fountain/water play area for children. Black granite carved water seats surrounded by fine misting jets provide an alternative experience to the active foaming and leaping jets in plaza. In addition to a standing quarry stone fountain, the memorial includes granite pavers with sandblasted text relating to the life and work of Mr. Hollowell. The site is an inviting gathering place for residence of the surrounding neighborhoods, engaging visitors of all ages, and has become an integral part of community life.
Aerial view of plaza
Plaza view
Detail of granite seats
Cantilevered stone and fountain
Detail of cantilevered stone and water feature
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Epigenesis
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Environmental Health
Chamblee, Georgia
Date : 1999-2001
Dimensions: 14' x 50' x 50'
Media: granite, stainless steel, stainless steel cable, granite pavers, and water
Commissioning Agency: Art in Architecture Program of the Generasl Service Administration
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Epigenesis is an environmental artwork, conceived for the purpose of enhancing the quality of life at the new Environmental Health Lab. The plaza includes an active water feature and tactile elements in stone, plants and trees providing a relaxing change from the working lab environment. In addition to these physical qualities, the work offers an occasion for reflection and place making, revealing the history and vital activities that continue to flourish at the Environmental Health Lab. It demonstrates the value of the work taking place in the labs with time: past, present and future, serving as an organizing theme. The work is comprised of several elements: five quarry block granite seats, with carved surfaces, A fifty-year time capsule, sandblasted granite pavers showing the past and present work of the lab, a pool with granite standing stone through which water cascades back into the pool, and a one ton cantilevered stone suspended over the water which turns slowly when activated by wind or human interaction.
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Aerial view of sculpture
Pedestrian view
Detail of vortex
Detail
Detail of surface
Plaza view with MARTA station in background
Civic Center Pedestrian Corridor: Ex-Static
Atlanta, GA
Date: 1995-1996
Dimensions: 16' x 30' x 90'
Media: aluminum, steel, and stainless steel cable
Commissioning Agency: Corporation for Olympic Development in Atlanta
Funded through the Corporation for Olympic Development in Atlanta, Ex-Static describes a complex system in flux. As an integral part of a larger pedestrian corridor, the site-specific sculpture rejuvenates the urban site of the traffic island. A way-finding element, incorporated in the design, links the Civic Center Marta Station to the Civic Center. The work is fabricated in part from airplane elements donated by Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems. These technically sophisticated elements, engineered for another purpose are reworked. The surfaces have been polished, sandblasted or left with minimal cleaning, and sealed. The beauty of the interior structure has been revealed and emphasized by contrasting paint.
The title of the work comes from a stencil found on one of the engine pylons, which read: Ex-Static Test Program.
Ex-Static is dedicated to the artist's father, who as an engineer at Lockheed 30 years ago worked on the two aircraft (the C-5 and C-141) from which the materials came.
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View of chapel from entrance
Detail of ceiling elements
The chapel altar
Interfaith Chapel
Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport
Date: 1999-2003
Dimensions: 13' x 10' x 20'
Media: Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer, wall covering
Altar Table: by Don Lewis walnut, curly maple, glass
This piece has been temporarily removed from the site to make way for renovations to the main chapel.
Description: This work was commissioned by the Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport Art Program to enhance and transform the existing space of the Interfaith Chapel. The project intended a more expansive, contemplative space with in which a visitor may easily shift from a commercial environment to a reflective, spiritual atmosphere. This was accomplished by extending the ceiling height by four feet and suspending sculptural elements of translucent fiberglass sheeting in a layered and gradually ascending configuration. The curvilinear shapes are repeated and interlocked, forming an arched floating overhead ceiling plane.
The walls are covered in a pale blue-green water washed surface, adding a sense of expansiveness and transparency to the space of the room. Light enhances this effect. The front and side walls are washed with light from overhead and the ceiling elements defuse the overhead spots, creating a modulated visual effect.
The handcrafted alter table, by Don Lewis, was designed in collaboration with the larger installation, and adds a warm counterpoint to the other materials used, with its hand tooled surfaces and beauty of local woods.
Detail of memorial wall
Aerial view of labyrinth
Detail of wing element in labyrinth
Atlanta Pre-trial Detention Center:
Memorial to Crime Victims and Public Safety Officers Killed in the line of Duty
Atlanta Pre-Trial Detention Center
Date : 1994-1995
Dimensions: Ceremonial space: 19' diameter
Wall Panels: 4' x 3'
Media: granite, bronze
Description: A City of Atlanta Percentage for the Arts Commission, this project intends to engage the casual visitor to the plaza while providing an interactive space for memorial services and public ceremonies. The installation includes a circular ceremonial space of flame cut granite tile banded with bronze and six granite panels engraved with text and set in the plaza brick wall edging the entrance ramp to the building.
The paving pattern of the ceremonial space forms a labyrinthine path, saw cut and ground to create contrast in the surface. Sandblasted along the path are names of human relationships including: neighbor, friend, brother, and sister. An inlaid bronze wing marks the internal point of return on the path.
The six granite panels installed in the plaza wall are sandblasted with text. The first three carry the plaza dedication and names of public safety officers who have died in the line of duty. The second group of panels include commentary from interviews with family members of crime victims and public safety officers. These speak, to loss, the need for community, and vision for the future. The memorial provides a context for acknowledging community as well as individual loss when someone is killed.
Hamilton Mill Branch Library exterior
Detail of library entrance photo © Brian C. Robbins
Interior view of treated windows photo © Annette Brown
“Recipe for Green” window detail photo © Brian C. Robbins
Earth window detail photo © Brian C. Robbins
Calvino window detail
Entry plaza with Rain Stone
Rain Stone with library entrance
Detail of Rain Stone
Hamilton Mill Library: Poesis
Gwinnett County, GA
Date: 2007- 2010
Media: glass, direct print digital images
Commissioning Agency: Gwinnett County, Georgia
The LEED Certified Hamilton Mill Library opened in the spring of 2010. Poiesis is part of the architectural fabric of the building occupying sixty-seven of the double paned window units throughout the library.
Several themes are woven together through a subtle play of color, image and text. These include examples of ancient and contemporary language text as they describe our knowledge of the earth/sun relationship. The layering of poetic text throughout the work reflects and adds nuance to these themes.
View from above
Detail of sculptural elements
Detail of paver
Detail of stones and garden
Agnes Scott College: Unknown Remembered Gate
Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Georgia
Date: 1996
Dimensions: 16'h x 40'w x 36'd
Media: redwood, granite, fieldstone, lava rock, stainless steel, stainless steel cable, ornamental grasses, and
creeping thyme
Description: Unknown Remembered Gate, located on the Agnes Scott College campus, Decatur, GA, acknowledges the liberal arts and its roots in the basic human quest, through time and across cultures, to understand our relationship to the mysteries surrounding us. It alludes to the idea that this search leads us through our images, theories and language back to a direct experience and hopefully expanded view of the World. The installation creates an intimate outdoor place to sit, read, eat lunch etc.
D.L. Hollowell Park
CDC
Memorial to Crime Victims
Civic Center Pedestrian Corridor
Interfaith
Chapel
Hamilton Mill Branch Library
Agnes Scott
College
Installation view of Aporia (7’h x 40’w x 6’d Bass wood, steel) and Kairos (10’ w x 4’h x 6’d Granite)
Installation view
Installation view of Kairos [in foreground] and Aporia
Detail of Aporia (bass wood and steel)
Kairos (granite) is a metaphorical exploration in form of the complex interacting awareness arising from the two hemispheres of our brain.
Events that Rhyme video installation (projected video 12’ h x 9’w, mist embodied image, and moss) total size: 12’ x 9’w x 25’d
Still of Events that Rhyme video as mist embodied image
View of Events that Rhyme video installation with Kairos in foreground
Installation view of Events that Rhyme video installation
Hermeion (fig and poplar wood, beeswax and pigment)
Detail of Hermeion
Events That Rhyme
Solo Exhibit at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, 2009 MOCA-GA Working Artist Project
Funded by the Charles Loridans Foundation
Date: August 15 - September 26, 2009
Media: Video installation, Basswood, steel, granite, moss, fig and poplar wood, bees wax and pigment
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Statement: This new body of work grew organically in response to the opportunities presented through the Working Artist Project. It has given me the time and mental space to follow the most alive exploratory edge of my creative proclivities, with a focus on reading/research, drawing, and experimenting with form, materials and new technologies.
Shaping the experience of a given space or site through movement and the modulation of sculptural form has been the focus of my work for over 25 years. The configuration of forms in space, their scale and relationship to each other become for me, a poetic, fertile and visceral language through which to speak. I could attempt to describe the work in the exhibit but to do so would break it into parts. I prefer to leave the work as a whole open to the viewers experience.
Consciousness is a cause for wonder. We interpret our impressions of the world through familiar associations and interpretations as we live the interplay between dynamic order and chance, with the capacity to respond with awareness and volition.
My hope is that the world of this exhibit will create an opening for the visitor/participant as the making of it did for me. It is an invitation to spend time in the gap before naming begins.
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Installation view with The River in the foreground
The River (granite, steel, neon, walnut; 28" x 80" x 20")
Detail of River
Spin II (mixed media; 95” x 58” x 52”)
Detail of Spin II
Open Vessel II created with Don Lewis (reclaimed western red cedar, wax, bronze powder; 99” x 24” x 12”)
Detail of Open Vessel II
Heavy Levity (granite and steel)
Installation view with Heavy Levity in front
Heavy Levity
Solo Exhibit at Sandler Hudson Gallery
Date: 2000
Statement: When does a log decomposing in the woods become humus on the forest floor? Asking this question leads to the realization that what we casually perceive as discrete states of being in ourselves, others and the world around us, can more accurately be described as complex patterns of becoming, embedded in a field of interpenetrating actions. Things are interdependent. The log is becoming humus; the humus is becoming something else.
In a sense these works consider the gradient that connects one known to another. Along that gradient lies a place of transformation and mystery. These works play in this fertile gap of our understanding. The works in wood are neither ladders nor boats, but refer metaphorically, to such objects of utility. They have no such utility, unless it is to remind us that in our own lives what we understand in the beginning of any endeavor to be absolutely important and true, shifts as we live, to something else, to some other mode of understanding and action. Our imagined destination is always known, our real destination is discovered in the process of the journey.
Installation view of video in pool of water and wood element composing Quotidian Rift
Wood element from above
Detail of wood element
Quotidian Rift
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
Accelerating Sequence: Artists Observe Time and Aging
Date : 2005-2005
Dimensions: 3'h x 9'w x 12'd
Media: Wood, Blue Stone, Video, and Water
Description: Quotidian Rift using sculptural elements and video delineates its own physical environment, inviting the viewer to contemplate the nature of time and his/her own particular relationship to its passage.
These elements include: an iconic water vessel form carved in basswood, a shallow pool bound by layers of stacked slate, and a video projected from above into the pool of water below. Contents of the video include layers of sound and image referring to our experience of time, as its pace enables the viewer to savior the experience through gazing into the reflection pool.
Events That
Rhyme
Quotidian
Rift
Epigenesis
Date: 1999-2001
Description: Epigenesis is an environmentally integrated artwork at the new Environmental Health Lab, CDC in Chamblee, Georgia. This video shows the process of installing the work and tours the completed site, providing a full scope of the plaza, and the movement of the water and suspended stone.
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This documents the Events that Rhyme video in relationship to the other works in the show and gives a taste of the mist embodied images that appear and disappear during the 14 min long event. A bed of moss becomes a part of the experience of the space as it absorbs any mist that falls to the floor. The solo exhibit took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia as a part of the 2009 Working Artist Project.
Acknowlegements:
Filmed by Maria Artemis
Video Technical/Creative Consultant - Jess Bowling
Soumdtrack - Rain and Tibetan Singing Bowls - Maria Artemis and Katherine RobinSun
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Gazing into a fire or a pond, watching a creek flow, or the tidal waters of a marsh rise and fall, we are reminded that our relationship to time is multivalent.
Science is still struggling to understand what space and time actually are. Are they real entities or only useful ideas? If they are real are they fundamental, or do they emerge from some basic constituents?[Brian Greene] Illusion or not, we know time through its effect in our lives. It is the medium through which all forms, actions and events continually are born, have life and duration and pass away.
Thanks to contemporary physics, we can muse about the beginning of time, listen to simulations of the sound the young universe made following the big bang, or watch an animation of the movement of the earths continental plates re-enacting the theory of plate tectonic movement over millions of years. But these stimulating and wonder filled ideas about time and space are of a different sort than our everyday experience of living in and out of time. Our experience of ourselves and those with whom we have long term and intimate connections, is informed and enriched by memories gathered over time. These experiences of time ultimately affect the way we live and find meaning in our lives.
At times we slip free and experience ourselves as outside the normal flow of time. Our experience is not that of a self-conscious subject acting on or in the world. Our consciousness dilates and we know ourselves to be inseparable from our place and our actions.
This installation explores all these layers of association and possibility for meaning in our ideas and experience of time.
Acknowledgements:
Quotes:
East Coker, T.S. Eliot
Deformation The Beauty of Unevenness, SHIRAISHI Masami, Chief Curator of the Crafts Gallery of the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo [quoted from Oglethorpe University Museums exhibition: Japanese Crafts, sponsored by the Japan Foundation]
Video Clips:
Big Bang sequences, courtesy of Professor Mark Whittle, Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia
Plate Tectonics, University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology
All other clips by the artist
Music:
Nature Boy, [Eden Ahbez] electric guitar - Peter Sawyer [artists son]
Nature Boy, [Eden Ahbez] Vocals - Demetrius Papageorge [artists father]
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2004 Atlanta Airport Proposal
This video shows a rendering of a proposed project for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airports new International Terminal. The site was in a large open hub. The proposed project would consist of an oval granite bench running over 450 feet around an opening to the floor below.
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Atlanta Airport Proposal
