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Nobuho Nagasawa

New York City, New York, United States

Nobuho Nagasawa is a New York City artist whose site-specific sculpture and installations investigate cultural memory, ecology and people’s relationship to places. Her practice combines community research with architectural and landscape interventions. Ship Shape Shifting Time at Islais Creek in San Francisco evokes a Liberty cargo ship through steel forms, paving, a historic bell and docking cleats. The artist credits site poems to George Quasha, who is also credited in the city’s collection catalog. That catalog dates the work to 2012, while Nagasawa’s project page labels it 2013; these source dates are retained without assigning a precise installation date. Transcendence of Justice, dated 2013 in her portfolio, creates an optical-fiber waterfall in John Jay College’s entrance lobby, with blue pulses synchronized to a Martin Luther King Jr. speech.

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sculpture, site-specific installation, public art, social sculpture, light installation
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New York City, New York, United States
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Nobuho Nagasawa is based in New York City, New York, United States. Documented disciplines include sculpture, site-specific installation, public art, social sculpture, light installation.

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