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These are the photos that I didn't submit for the contest. I wanted to also submit this first one, but I could only do four.
Here's a link where you can read more about the artists and the work, and see photos which show the whole works, since, as you can see, I generally only did details. sculpturemilwaukee.com
Here's a detail showing the "o" of Robert Indiana's Love.
Here are two people... engaged with each other. They seem to be spacemen of some kind. It seems like space suits, but the piece is called Hazmat Love. Tom Friedman modeled it of aluminum foil, roasting pans and baking tins, then cast it in stainless steel. I like it, there's an ambiguity - dancing? playing? fighting? - but the feel is lighthearted. It's hard to tell in the photo, since I messed with the colors so much, but the fronts of their faces are polished mirrors.
Ghada Amer's Blue Bra Girls again.
97.5ยบ Arc X 9 by Bernar Venet. It's very big - twenty-five feet tall.
Untitled, by Bosco Sodi is a stack of four large ceramic blocks. It's understated, but I like it. It's set back from the street in a small garden area with benches. Kinda soothing. In trying to get a good angle on it, I just felt like hanging around there for a while.
One of The Group of Five by Magdalena Abakanowicz. Five bronze figures like this, with torsos, legs and feet.
Reason to Be, by Jessica Jackson Hutchins is a repurposed bus shelter. It's covered with stained glass, with a hammock inside, where passers by can find refuge.
Janet Zweigel made these flip signs. There are three or four lightposts, each of which has three of these boxes. They start animating when someone walks nearby (motion sensors). The scenes are interpretations of Milwaukee scenery passing by a vehicle. This one shows a dog looking out the car window. Another is scenery I recognize from the train going south from the Milwaukee station.
This is not part of the yearly Sculpture exhibition. This is a permanent member of our skyline. It's The Calling by Mark DiSuvero. I really like it. I like the bright color and the exuberance of the sunburst, with its contrast in heavy steel I-beams. Orange isn't one of my favorite colors, but I like how it contrasts with a deep blue sky. I also like the geometry. (This is the only DiSuvero that I really like. Most of the rest are just messy assemblages.) A lot of people hate it because it's bright orange and made of stupid I-beams. They used to merely dislike it, but when the art museum (the white figure in the background) went up behind it, they began to hate it because it blocked the view. There was a controversy at the time. DiSuvero himself offered to move it, but whomever was in charge of it decided to leave it its original location. They mentioned that it was a good contrast to Calatrava's building.
Here's a link where you can read more about the artists and the work, and see photos which show the whole works, since, as you can see, I generally only did details. sculpturemilwaukee.com
Here's a detail showing the "o" of Robert Indiana's Love.
Here are two people... engaged with each other. They seem to be spacemen of some kind. It seems like space suits, but the piece is called Hazmat Love. Tom Friedman modeled it of aluminum foil, roasting pans and baking tins, then cast it in stainless steel. I like it, there's an ambiguity - dancing? playing? fighting? - but the feel is lighthearted. It's hard to tell in the photo, since I messed with the colors so much, but the fronts of their faces are polished mirrors.
Ghada Amer's Blue Bra Girls again.
97.5ยบ Arc X 9 by Bernar Venet. It's very big - twenty-five feet tall.
Untitled, by Bosco Sodi is a stack of four large ceramic blocks. It's understated, but I like it. It's set back from the street in a small garden area with benches. Kinda soothing. In trying to get a good angle on it, I just felt like hanging around there for a while.
One of The Group of Five by Magdalena Abakanowicz. Five bronze figures like this, with torsos, legs and feet.
Reason to Be, by Jessica Jackson Hutchins is a repurposed bus shelter. It's covered with stained glass, with a hammock inside, where passers by can find refuge.
Janet Zweigel made these flip signs. There are three or four lightposts, each of which has three of these boxes. They start animating when someone walks nearby (motion sensors). The scenes are interpretations of Milwaukee scenery passing by a vehicle. This one shows a dog looking out the car window. Another is scenery I recognize from the train going south from the Milwaukee station.
This is not part of the yearly Sculpture exhibition. This is a permanent member of our skyline. It's The Calling by Mark DiSuvero. I really like it. I like the bright color and the exuberance of the sunburst, with its contrast in heavy steel I-beams. Orange isn't one of my favorite colors, but I like how it contrasts with a deep blue sky. I also like the geometry. (This is the only DiSuvero that I really like. Most of the rest are just messy assemblages.) A lot of people hate it because it's bright orange and made of stupid I-beams. They used to merely dislike it, but when the art museum (the white figure in the background) went up behind it, they began to hate it because it blocked the view. There was a controversy at the time. DiSuvero himself offered to move it, but whomever was in charge of it decided to leave it its original location. They mentioned that it was a good contrast to Calatrava's building.
