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Renegade or Official? Behind the Public Art Scenes with Sheila Klein and Tim Kaulen Moderated by Tracy Myers, Curator of Architecture at the Carnegie Museum of Art Panelists: $5/member, $10/non-member, or $7 for two/$15 for non-members
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Recent Exhibitions: Map of Everything Capuchas Para Pensar (Thinking Caps)
Espacio Tramando 5 Bienal Internacional Arte Textil Buenos Aires, Argentina March, 2009 Odd Fits Fashionistas |
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New Trade Route:
You are invited to the premier launch of Sheila Klein’s side project New Trade Route Sunday November 1st, 1-3pm Home of Carole Fuller and Evan Schwab 1250 22nd Avenue East & Sunday November 8th, 1- 3pm Studio of Sheila Klein 6988 Bayview-Edison Rd After Thanksgiving visit Lucia Douglas Gallery in Bellingham,Washington to see New Trade Route clothing or call for an appointment
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Skywithin Skywithin is a project for an aerial light-rail station in Seattle. Located under the guide way, Skywithin creates an atmosphere with weather made by light and color on a painted architectural graphic. The project references the street and creates another reality. Sculptural chandeliers made from cobra-head roadway lights hang beneath a concrete girder that visually threads the guide way together. The cobra head roadway lights are turned upside-down and filled with programmable LED light fixtures. The programmable LED lighting will wash over the painted graphic to make a kind of “weather,” creating a pleasant mood rather than the typically harsh roadway lighting. The installation will provide amenities to the site by creating light, interest, and order. The guide way is an arcade to place a sky within. |
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Columnseum wins national award Columnseum (Roosevennavelt) at the Roosevelt Greenlake Park-and-Ride, wins national award. This art project is among 40 public artworks selected as the most successful and innovative of more than 300 entries nationwide. This is the ninth year that Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America, has recognized public artworks. The purpose of this award is to acknowledge the most outstanding and innovative public art projects produced in the previous year.
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Roosevennavelt: Columnseum Using parking lot vernacular (white stripes / blue handicap), the lot was painted with simple shapes to minimize the dark space and accentuate the architecture. The yellow-painted columns with central non-painted circles transform the concrete colonnades to give a new shapeliness to the passage. Clear shapes of color are a relief from the gray. The 3D painting gives direction and center to the space and diminishes the formidable structure. The white gloss circles take a bite out of the columns and make a series of receding moon shapes. The green ovals act as a graphic landscape to blend with the few trees that surround the site. The 12' tall blue slots create openings in the columns and reinforce the 65th Street corridor. The painted shapes give direction and center to the space. As you move through the space the painting becomes sculpture.
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Odd Fits: Made from Scratch Jacqueline Dreager
Sheila Klein
Chris Sauter
Jason Wilson
Odd Fits Made from Scratch highlights the artist as chef, concocting more than simple nourishment or retinal candy.
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Run 'er way: Detour Last fall the county I live in requested that we loan them a piece of our field for a temporary road to divert traffic in order to do a maintenance project. In October they built the small half circle lane in my field replete with orange cones, reflectors and roadway signs I was inspired to respond: It seemed perfect for a runway show of OtherClothing. A juxtaposition of site with action. The OtherClothing has been shown on a wall , similar to a kind of ethnographic souvenir: mask or costume. I enlisted my comrades in Edison and surroundings to do a runway show on this mini road using the Other Clothing. We met at my studio recently, performed a walk on my boardwalk. Then we proceeded around the corner to film a few takes (Run ‘er Way ). Horizon Runway. These are the still shots I took that serve as a draft for the film that will follow. We attracted the attention of a few neighbors. |
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Airport Houston Texas |
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Comfort Zone Receives AwardOn June 10, 2005, in Austin, Texas, artist Donald Lipski and art consultant Sherry Wagner presented their selections for 2005 Year in Review at the American's for the Arts Annual Convention - Public Art Conference. Two projects managed by Public Art 4Culture were chosen to be included in this year's addition. We congratulate artist Sheila Klein for her work entitled Comfort Zone that softens the Patricia Steel Building with architectural-scale fiber works. A profile of the project can be viewed at www.4culture.org/publicart/project_profile.asp?locID=28 or select Comfort Zone on this web site for more information on the project. |
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© Sheila Klein 2005