More Nature in the City? Maybe, Via Public Art

16 May 2009 - 1:00pm

San Francisco, Houston, and Indianapolis are featuring public art installations that mimic and highlight nature in urban areas.

"Ongoing in San Francisco is artist Patrick Dougherty’s The Upper Crust, a series of conical forms for which the artist collected 18,000 pounds of freshly cut willow saplings, which he then wove into the branches of a bunch of sycamore trees on a plaza across from San Francisco’s City Hall"

In Houston at the end of this month, locals and visitors can brave the sure-to-be sweltering heat and head to Discovery Green, a new-ish public park smack in the middle of downtown, to see Light As Air, a collection of inflatable art from artists around the country."

"Finally, Indianapolis is currently hosting a bunch of works by a South Bend-born artist, George Rickey, who spent his entire career constructing massive, stainless-steel sculptures carefully designed to move in the wind."

Photos and more information available via links.

Source: Next American City, May 13, 2009
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