Halo, 2012
Glass, dichroic Glass, stainless steel, concrete base
Collège Bourget de Rigaud, Quebec
Halo has an ethereal presence and is a metaphor for an elusive reality. It is visually mysterious, changing with the light and the viewer’s perspective, at times almost disappearing. As an object in space it reflects, refracts and projects light, color and image. The …
Cloudbreak, 2010
Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse, Denver, CO. 14’x14’x18in., glass, steel
The east wall of the Jury Assembly room is a colored glass image of light bursting from behind dramatic storm clouds seen through a layer of over 12,500 glass tubes that ‘push’ like a cloud through the metal frame of the wall in low relief. Each tube catches the bits …
Arbor Winds, 2016
Location: Stadium Bridge public art project in Ann Arbor, MI
As one drives around Ann Arbor, the gracious stands of trees stand out as a clear expression of the town’s identity so trees have symbolized this arbor town from the beginning.
On a deeper level, the trees as portrayed in the artwork Arbor Winds are a metaphor for …
Sky Cycles, 2017
Location: BART Warm Springs Station, Fremont, CA.
Sky Cycles weaves images from different times of day, different times of year and different points of view into single images that are in turn woven into the present moment, the actual sky from the point of each viewer. My source of images for Pioneer Mountain, Elizabeth Lake and …
Woven Light, 2018
Northfield Uplands Park,
Stapleton, CO, 2018
Accoya (treated wood), dichroic glass, stainless steel, concrete. $340,000
Woven Light is an outdoor room; you are inside and outside at the same time and the shadows, light and projected color make you more conscious of the sun and the breeze than if you were standing in the open.
When seen …
Time’s Shadow, 2016
Rideau Centre, Ottawa Ontario, Canada
Time’s Shadow plays with how our brains perceive our environments. As an artist my goal is to give the brain just enough that is familiar to intrigue and challenge it to look more carefully and enter into the visual and emotional content of the work. Time’s Shadow gives the viewer’s brain something familiar …
Deterministic Chaos, 2017
John T. Tate Hall, University of Minnesota
Deterministic Chaos is a three part public art work commissioned by the School of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Minnesota.The work brings the invisible energies and rhythms of the light and wind into the awareness of those who enter the building.
Outside …
Passing Storms – Cloud, 2015
Oregon State Hospital, Junction City, OR.
Inspired by the natural environment, Passing Storms portrays the changing weather as metaphor for unpredictable and shifting states of mind. Buddhist philosophy accepts suffering as a part of being human yet Western culture wants to focus only on the sunny and bright side of experience. The dark …
Pass Through the Land, 2001
PASS THROUGH THE LAND – Mountainscape and Aspen Towers, stone and stainless steel, 28’ x 300′ x 300’, $525,000
Pass Through the Land is an environmental work that brings the textures, colors and forms of the Colorado mountains to a 300′ circular park forming a modified labyrinth providing seating and a gathering place …
Sky Veil, 2015
Ogden Juvenile Courthouse, Ogden Utah, dichroic glass and steel
My challenge was to transform the courthouse environment for those who are visiting the courthouse in a time of sorrow and stress. The glass curtain wall that slices through the volume of the building and creates beautiful lobbies outside each courtroom is the most dramatic element …
Passing Storms – Rain, 2015
Oregon State Hospital, Junction City, OR.
Inspired by the natural environment, Passing Storms portrays the changing weather as metaphor for unpredictable and shifting states of mind. Buddhist philosophy accepts suffering as a part of being human yet Western culture wants to focus only on the sunny and bright side of experience. The dark …
Leaves of Wind, 2014
Public art in 20 Rapid Transit Bus shelters as part of METRO System in El Paso, TX. Inaugurated October 2014, Leaves of Wind is a series of public art installations incorporated into the twenty transit shelters on the first line of El Paso’s new Brio Rapid Transit System: the Mesa corridor. This route …
Tidal Song, 2009
New Rochelle, NY. Mouth blown stained glass and etched float glass, sensors, speakers, programmable LED lighting.120 x 12 x 14′.
Tidal Song creates an immersive, interactive environment akin to a wave of energy. The team included Roger Smith as lighting consultant and Aaron Cuthbertson as sound designer. Sanjeev Shankar was researcher and technical assistant during the proposal …
Liquid Echo, 1999
750 Bay Street, Toronto. H and R Developments and the City of Toronto, 100’x33′ plaza.
Liquid Echo is an environmental work installed at 750 Bay Street in downtown Toronto in June of 1999, commissioned by H and R Developments as part of the program of integration of art and architecture for the City of …
Lightscape, 2019
Widgery Studio in collaboration with artist cj fleury. Inspired by the sun’s movement across Blair Station, brightness cascading into all its open spaces; Lightscape is informed by the proximity of Ottawa’s national centers for research, science, security and observation, and the diversity of the LRT rider population. The grand star’s first light, the sunrise, is seen as …
Light Lines, 2004
The Tree Museum (a sculpture park north of Toronto near Gravenhurst)
At the waters edge, lines of light rise up and sway with the breeze. The light is created by the reflection of the surface of the water and the sky. Small reflective discs hang from strong black nylon netting cut into strips about 6″ …
River Dragon, 2014
Stainless Steel, Western Avenue Station, part of the new Light Rail Transit in St. Paul, MN.
The Western Avenue station is at the heart of St. Paul’s Asian district whose population is primarily of Hmong and Vietnamese origins. The community was an active partner is the development of the concept for River Dragon which combines the symbolism of …
Forest Lights, 2016
Oregon Zoo, Portland, OR.
Forest Lights consists of a façade treatment where glass is set among wooden elements to suggest light coming through the bamboo forests of Asia for the new Asian elephant area of the zoo. There are three towers 30’ tall with dichroic glass “leaves” that move in the wind and catch the light …
Leading Lights, 2018
Golden Triangle District, Washington DC
2018, Dichroic Glass and Steel Leading Lights is a colonnade of 34 dichroic glass and steel columns, lining both sides of the 21st block of K Street in Washington DC’s Golden Triangle District. The columns are luminous jewels of transparent color, always changing. The dichroic glass surfaces reflect the surroundings through …
River Arch, 1999
Winnipeg, Manitoba. Stone, stainless steel, aluminum, gold leaf, concrete, 75.5 x 76 x 15 ft.; 23 x 23 x 4.5 m.
River Arch, installed in October 1999, in Winnipeg, Manitoba was commissioned by the City of Winnipeg to serve as a symbol of the city at its gateway where two new bridges span the Red River …
Wind Veil, In Progress
Brentwood Town Centre, Burnaby, British Columbia,Wind Veil brings to our attention the universal patterns that surround us: how light and wind interact constantly with surfaces and animate our world with a delicate wonder. Crucial to the concept is to have an ever-changing experience inside and outside the building both during the day and night. …
Light Storm, 2005
Mesa Center for the Arts, Mesa, Arizona. 27,000 square feet, 35,000 stainless steel discs.
Light Storm was commissioned by the Mesa Center for the Arts in Mesa, Arizona and was installed in 2005. The work covers over 27,000 square feet and is comprised of over 35,000 stainless steel discs that have been set into the paving stones …
Mindshadows, 2011
Created for the North Toronto Collegiate Institute as part of the New Republic development in Toronto, Ontario. Perforated aluminum and stainless steel. 20 x 10 x 10′.
Words are the building blocks for thought. They give shape to our ideas. These cubes embody the energy and power of words within a structure of reason and order. Yet …
Ripples, 2014
Site 3 Terminal 1 at Raleigh-Durham International Airport. Laminated glass.
Airports can be stressful places. Ripples creates a contemplative, soothing expanse of blue water where the patterns of drops remind us of eternal rhythms and cycles. We see the sky reflected and the texture of the water with the waves of the drops expanding.
For those who look more …
La Pluie Douce, 1999
Commissioned by Ministere des affaires culturelles du Québec for Le centre hospitalier Charles Lemoyne, Brossard, Québec. 14′ x 8′ x 49′, etched glass, steel.
An environmental work where an eighty foot long etched glass roof over an access ramp casts patterns of concentric rings so that visitors are surrounded by the patterns of a …
Le Fleuve, 1998
Etched glass, 10 x 40 ft.; 3 x 12m. Centre d’acceuil Monseigneur Coderre, Longueuil
Designed for the entrance of a retirement and convalescent home, the form of the river was taken from an old topographical map and etched into the glass. The lines suggest both the movement of the water and a form created by …
Shadow Play, 2008
Glass and aluminum, silk screened images on canopies, 28 x 160 x 44′. Light Rail Station at 3rd and Mill in Tempe, AZ.
One of the things that strikes me about the desert is the delicacy of the plants and trees. Leaves are small; shadows are never dense or heavy. It is as if light …
Urban Fabric, 2021
YC Condos in Toronto
The inspiration for Urban Fabric is the architecture of the YC condo building with its language of repeated horizontals that are woven together with subtle contrasting colours and depths. These lines wrap the building in a ‘fabric’ of syncopated patterns. The canopy art glass is also a woven pattern of horizontals …
Interface, In Progress
This work is installed at the Student Innovation Center at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Interface is an integrated public art work at the ISU Innovation Center. To enter this building is to pass through the artwork in the vestibules whose pleated dichroic glass walls break up and reconfigure our surroundings, so we see ourselves …
Interface, In Progress
This work is installed at the Student Innovation Center at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Interface is an integrated public art work at the ISU Innovation Center. To enter this building is to pass through the artwork in the vestibules whose pleated dichroic glass walls break up and reconfigure our surroundings, so we see ourselves …
Le Bon Vent, 1988
External Affairs Department of Canada, Canadian Embassy, Geneva, Switzerland. 15′ etched brass wall sculpture. Purchased by the Musee du Quebec.
The front shows the pastoral side of Canada while when seen from the side, the etched images are of urban Canada. Photo during fabrication.
Cross Currents, Proposal
Cross Currents, 2016 proposal, Texas University, Austin, Moore Street
All energy moves in waves, mostly these waves are invisible, but we sense them in the air or in sound or of course in water. We see waves at the edge of a body of water, endlessly curling and sliding up the beach or shore yet …
River Winds, Proposal 2016
Riverwood Environmental Gateway Project, Mississauga, Ontario
River Winds, installed along each side of Riverwood Park Lane creates a gateway experience for those who enter the park and is highly visible to those driving down Burnhamthrope Rd. The sinuous blue lines are derived from the curves of the Credit River and the way the elements swing …
Lux Lucis, Dichroic glass, 2016
This piece was created for FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES, the It’s LIQUID International Art and Architecture Festival, Venice 2016. Lux Lucis was exibited at The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and the Balsaliee School of International Affairs, which is a visionary place. At the heart of this vision is the meeting of …
Crystal Light, 2011
North Temple Bridge / Guadalupe Station, Salt Lake City Utah.
Etched Glass, Stainless Steel, 75 x 200 x 78’. $589,000
Crystal Light is a response to the dramatic weather of Salt Lake City. It uses water in its different states as the metaphor for the temperature changes and precipitation. The salt crystals of the lake and …
Memorial to the Victims of Communism, proposal
This memorial, designed with the Reich+Petch Team, is one of five finalists for the new Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Ottawa, Canada.
This Memorial holds in one intimate space the dark of Communism and the light of freedom that is Canada. A luminous cube is at the heart of …
Shimmer, Proposal 2016
Valerie C. Woodard Center, Arts and Science Council Project, Charlotte NC
Shimmer creates a welcoming gateway to the main public entrances of the Valerie C. Woodard Center so that those coming here, often under difficult circumstances are uplifted and inspired. The artwork responds to the light and wind heightening the awareness of the invisible energies and …
Turbo, in progress
In studying the site through photographs, video and other virtual means, what stood out was the sense of the flow of traffic and people. As I searched for a visual source that expresses this, I came upon the a short video that shows the flow coming from the exhaust pipe of an internal combustion …
Dazzle, 2014
Emeryville, CA
Dazzle is inspired by the patterns painted on ships during WWI and II to camouflage their distance, speed, and direction on the water. The Bay Area was home to naval bases so this work references this local history as well as the fractured patterns of light on water. By painting the massive columns they …
Crystal Flight, 2011
Proposal for TELUS World of Science, Calgary, July 2011.
In Crystal Flight we witness energy being transformed as it is released from one form before being harnessed into another. Waves and vortices are organizing principles of energy and the elements in this artwork.
The architecture of the TELUS Science Center marries geometry, that only exists in abstract thought, …
Light Balance, 2008
Justice Center, Denver, CO.
Light is a metaphor for a justice that illuminates truth and transparency of process. Inspired by the shallow scales held aloft by the blindfolded Justice, the curved form with a turbulent surface hangs in perfect balance. Above and below are reflective surfaces that bounce back the light and shapes. Reflection in …
Motion’s Moment, 2012
Barrhaven South Recreational Complex, Ottawa. 3954 sq/ft (376.57 sq. meters of art glass), laser etching and airbrushed enamels.
Motion’s Moment captures three states of water as each shifts form and texture. The art is a metaphor for the dynamic state of motion at the heart of the Barrhaven South Recreational Complex.
The inspiration for Motion’s Moment came after watching underwater …
Iconic Bridge Structure, 2009
Concept for an Iconic Bridge Structure as part of Metro Gold Line in California, Commissioned by the Woodlawn Foundation,
An iconic structure has to have a strong, essentially simple gesture. I chose the circle for its reference to the wheel, movement and speed. Fully aware that the vast majority of those who see this bridge …
Celebrate, in progress
This new BRT along the corridor between Downtown Oakland and San Leandro is a system of the future. Celebration recognizes and celebrates this future while honoring the past of the area and the rich cultural diversity of the present.
Color and energy vibrate along the corridor with colorful murals and store fronts. Celebration takes its cue from these and …
Wave Lines, 2009
Proposal for the Broward County Beach Renourishment Project in Florida.
Inspired by the motion of the waves that sweep along the beaches, Wave Lines creates an environment of light and color in the boundary space between the sea and the man- made structures along the coast. The “pixilated” geometry of the glass block waves translates nature’s forms …
Helix
Proposal designed for the courtyard next to the Science Center at Wheaton College in Norton, MA.
Captured Cloud, 2011
Proposal created for the children’s entrance to the Denver Science Museum as one of a series of interactive works in the park site.
The movement of the wind is revealed as fog emerges from the bowl of small amphitheater made of perforated stainless steel. Children can run up the ramps and into the bowl …
Fire of Light, 2012
Artwork for Staff Pedestrian Bridge, University Hospital.
Whether they are arriving or leaving, those who enter the Staff Bridge are in a moment of transition between their personal lives and the world of hospital. I think of Fire of Light as a brief period when the staff steps out of their everyday world and is immersed …
Grow in Wisdom, 2010
Pedestrian walkway, Atlanta’s West End district.
From the beginning this project was meant to speak to the past while inspiring for the future. The tree is rooted deep in the community with its rich past; the branches rise from the foundation of the brave men and women whose courage inspired others to follow. From …
Sun Sails, 2009
Sun Sails are tensile shade structures grouped to form ribbons and wave forms that mimic the wave energy of water and wind. By assembling these tensile forms in a configuration that suggests movement, they provide a beautiful sculptural illusion of the wind’s animation while providing shade.
Each of these Sun Sails is a standard module whose configuration is …
Slivers of Light, Proposal 2016
Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis MN
The hospital is like a body: air flowing through ducts, water flowing through pipes, electrical current flowing through wires, the bones of the structure in concrete and metal, the skin of glass and sheet metal. The staff, patients and visitors bring the body to life as these physical …
Sky Cubes, 2005
Global Arts Village, Delhi, India
The installation utilized the clouds cubes used for the Head in the Clouds performance and gives them a new role and meaning in space. Akin to stop motion photography the veiled, colorful, translucent cubes tumble down creating a beautiful gathering space below.
Installed at the Global Arts Village, Delhi, India. With thanks to …
This work will be installed in 2024 at the Federal Way Station which is part of the Seattle area Sound Transit System.
We have continued to simplify and refine the concept for proposed artwork at Federal Way Station.
Our goal has been to transform the interior space of the station in such a way that the space …
This is a project for two underground pedestrian corridors at the Charlotte Airport, Charlotte North Carolina. It will be installed in late 2023.
The goal of Restless Sea, Restless Sky is to create a sense of space, light and air that defy the normal experience of underground walkways while referencing in a metaphoric way the essential …
Field, 2011
Proposal created for the children’s entrance to the Denver Science Museum as one of a series of interactive works in the park site.
A field of aluminum tubes 2” in diameter forms a square of verticals set in a grid arrangement that one can walk through. The total area is 20 x 20’ with the …
Morning’s Glory, 2012
Proposal for Wheaton College courtyard outside Science Center.
Surrounded by the stairway and balcony above and the windows of the cafè below, the courtyard site for Morning’s Glory is at the heart of the approach to the Science Center at its lower level. The artwork creates a natural gathering place where people can sit in the shade …
Light Wave, 2009
Public art proposal, Performing Arts Center, University of Central Florida.
A curved line of sails animates the open courtyard as if a single piece of paper had floated into the space and we are seeing it through a series of moments in time. The supporting poles for the sails create a pedestrian space, a colonnade providing …
Catch the Sun, 2011
Proposal created for the children’s entrance to the Denver Science Museum as one of a series of interactive works in the park site,.
The 14’ long cylinder 7’ in diameter structure lies on its side. Prisms are inserted in openings strategically placed according to the angles of the sun throughout the day. This is …
Alder Veil is at the cross roads between the past and the future. The grove of alder inspired forms stands ghostly and majestic as a gateway and beacon at the heart of the Village of Islington neighborhood. It recalls Mimico Creek that flows beneath the road invisible to motorists today but once a place for leisure …
Mirage, 2011
Proposal created for the children’s entrance to the Denver Science Museum as one of a series of interactive works in the park site.
A wall of 36” long aluminum tubes with acrylic caps on each end can be pushed in and out by the viewers to create a changing sculpture. The surrounding landscape is distorted …
This was a proposal for Century City in Surrey, BC.
Century City Public Art Opportunity B Concept Description
SPLASH
The artwork SPLASH reflects the dynamism of both Century City and Surrey. This closeup from an image of a wave catches the explosive energy in the moment of impact. The ebullient energy of this image is a metaphor for …
Turbo, Proposal
Iconic image outside the two entrances of the Woodbine TTC Station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. These sculptures are designed to have a presence for the whole neighborhood, not only for those who take the TTC trains. The form of the sculpture renders visible the invisible flow of air currents stirred as part of propulsion. It …
This project is a proposal for the Town of Mount Royal in Quebec.
CONCEPT: Dichotomy
noun: dichotomy
a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different.
Dichotomy is a beacon that shimmers and responds to the wind and light, changing dramatically depending on the position of the viewer. A luminous construction …
This project is a proposal for Scottsdale, AZ.
Concept: Crystal Palms
The Crystal Palm structures on the terrace are ‘cubist’ transformations of a palm grove. The curves of the palm fronds with their cylindrical trunks have been ‘shattered’ into flat planes that are reconfigured to create an environmental sculptural experience that is a hybrid between urban structures …
Crystal Walk, 2011
Proposal for pedestrian walkways, University Hospital, San Antonio, Texas.
The river has long been a symbol of the progression of life: from small bubbling mountain streams to raging youth to dissolution at the convergence with the vast ocean. Visitors to the hospital are especially conscious of life’s ebb and flow and their movement along the …
