Artist: Phil America

Permanent sculptural installation in the new Sacramento Kings NBA arena Golden 1 Center. ADDY Award Winner.

In a contemplation on personal identity, Phil America literally and figuratively deconstructs the themes of memory, fashion and fanaticism to lay bare the sacrifices made in search of excellence under a specific banner.

‘Player Edition’ is photographed countless times by visitors to both NBA events and concerts, leveraging social media with every snap. The piece is both historical as well as a current marker of place and time; as in “I’ll meet you under the sculpture.”

Phil America cut up and carefully reorganized hundreds of both current and former Sacramento Kings player‘s shoes into the King’s logo. All shoes were game worn and many were ‘player edition‘, meaning Nike created one-of-a-kind shoe in the specific team colors for an individual player. Each pair could have demanded thousands of dollars in online markets.

Artist Collective: Boa Mistura

Permanent Installation. Downtown Akron Partnership, NIHOF, STEM

The National Inventors Hall of Fame School for STEM Learning selected Boa Mistura for a grand scale permanent installation to transform and connect the Hall of Fame more closely with its community based on the team’s expertise with dynamic, large scale work. The project involved a unique anamorphosis technique that Boa Mistura has mastered. Incorporating science and math principles into the work, anamorphosis is an optical deformation of perspective that forces the viewer to visualize the work from a predetermined point of view.

In this way, all other views of the plaza will offer a distorted image of the poem and invite the user to playfully interact with the art piece in order to get the correct position.

The project involved workshops with STEM students to provide input into the design including the incorporation of poetry by Rita Dove as well as community volunteers to execute the installation.

Artist: Nancy Baker Cahill

Augmented Reality, Geo-Location Specific Drawing, Desert Wind Energy Association

As part of the popular Desert X art exhibition in the Coachella Valley, Baker Cahill presented her augmented reality drawings as a call-and-response experience via the “4th Wall” App. The work at the southern Salton Sea, Margin of Error, presents the toxic outcome of human progress leading to an environmental disaster The experience prompts viewers to ruminate on their own body within the scale and setting of the landscape, dwarfed by the implied giant-scale of the digital work

Set in two distinctive locations near the extreme poles of the Coachella Valley, the artist’s pieces use augmented reality, producing a singular experience for each viewer due to the ever-changing conditions of the desert. The work at the Desert Wind Energy Association wind farms, Revolutions, alludes to the capturing of energy to remedy a man-made crisis. But in doing so, the net effect is disruptive to the flora and fauna of the region.

The pieces drew significant press as well as leveraging the social media uploaded by the thousands of exhibition participants that drove awareness and dialogue around sustainable energy.