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Rrrun
For the Palo Alto Arts Commission, Sculpture for Alma Park, Palo Alto, California.
6’ x 5’ x 5’ cement and steel sculpture. Installed 2006.

Portraits of Youth
For the City Hall Civic Center Plaza, Palo Alto, California.
Exhibition of cement and steel sculpture, in conjunction with a grant from the Peninsula Community Foundation. September, 2003

Three Egrets
For the City of San Leandro, CA, Engineering and Planning Department
8' bronze sculpture for the City Marina. Installed 2003

Stretch
For the Oakland Museum of Art, installation of five sculptures for the Oakland Museum of Art City Center Lobby
18' x variable, installed 2003, Oakland, California.
Stitched aluminum mesh, steel, cast stone and video projection.

A+ School Project
For the City of Palo Alto School District, Barron Park School and El Carmelo Elementary School. The project included a gate and five mural designs. Headed team of two artists: other team artist, Willy Scholten, Rebecca Bui. Commissioned in conjunction with the California Arts Council. Made of steel and enamel, 110’ combined total length. Installed 2001 through 2002.

Spiritus
For the City of Palo Alto Civic Center Plaza, Six month project. Three sculptures, 15’ tall x 8’ x 8’, made of stitched aluminum mesh, with nightime slide projections. November 2000 through April 2001.

Go Mama
For the Palo Alto Arts Commission and the Merchants Association for California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA.
Cast bronze, cast cement, sand blasted poetry. Fabrication by the Mussi Artworks Foundry in Berkeley, Ca. Installed September, 2000. Base design: concrete with bronze details. Poetry in collaboration with Mary Lee McNeal.

Love Me
For the Rocky Hill Sculpture Garden, Santa Rosa, California.
Cast bronze, 5' x 4' x 4' Installed June 2000. Fabricated at Artworks Foundry in Berkeley, Ca.

Twice Awarded Finalist for the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles, from aprox. 250 entrants, 1998.

Memories of Flight
For the National Museum of Art in Costa Rica, commissioned sculpture installation, for four months in 1997-98. A multi-media installation made of welded steel, aluminum mesh, slide projectors, and computer. Four sculptures, ranging in size from six feet to fifteen feet tall, ten feet wide. Made in conjunction with multi-media artist, Ruth Eckland. Commissioned by the National Museum of Art and one sculpture was purchased for the permanent collection.

Memories of Flight
For the Yerba Buena Gardens, in San Francisco, California.
Stritched aluminum mesh and steel, 18' x 9' x 8', installed 1998. A temporary multi-media installation with projectors, computer, and welded steel box for outdoor installation of multi-media equipment. Multi-media contribution by artist Ruth Eckland.

When She Dreams
For the Sculpture Walk at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, California.
Steel and aluminum mesh, installed 1997. Included mulitple projectors, a computer, and a projection box for outdoor installation of multi-media equipment.

Earth Tear
For Norcal Company Sculpture Garden, South San Francisco.
Welded steel and 250 recycled bottles. 8’ x 5’ x 5’ in dimensions. Made in conjunction with a residency sponsored by Norcal Company, Sanitary Fill Division. Was featured in tour and publicity during the International Sculpture Convention in San Francisco, 1997

Earth Tear
For the California Regional Arts Center Plaza, Walnut Creek, California, borrowed Eath Tear for year exhibition, from the Norcal Sculpture Garden. 1997 through 1998.

Jack and Cohen Builders commissioned a public art project of sculpture and installation made of wood, metal, found objects, enamel, and light boxes with panoramas. The project took up 50’ on downtown University Avenue in Palo Alto, Ca. It was commissioned by as an art installation within a building site barricade for the duration of the University Ave. construction project, from Nov. 1996 through 1997.

Light and Imagination
For the City of Palo Alto Utilities Department.
Steel, wood, found objects, electrical conduit, and lighting, mural 150 feet. Public art project arranged by the Arts Commission of Palo Alto and commissioned by the Department of Utilities, in 1994. Installed in front of a utility sub-station and is designed to incorporate images behind it in order to make the towering electrical equipment in this downtown area less difficult to the eye.

     
 
   
   
   
   
   
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