David Oliver develops illuminated sculpture using stained glass, steel and stone. Burning Man’s 2019 archive credits Portal to Oliver and the Art City Monsters: a two-sided, twelve-foot ring assembled from 4, 608 stained-glass tiles between basalt columns. ARTECH’s Reno Playa Art Park 2020 program lists the same work and artist, providing a separate exhibition-host reference. Subsequent event entries describe Petaled Portal in 2022, the twenty-four-foot Beacon with illuminated lamps in 2024, and three glowing globe-topped plant figures called ORBs in 2025. These archive descriptions document the proposed or registered works; they do not establish every installation’s completion or current location. The linked artist reference is ARTECH’s host record, not an artist-controlled website.
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Practice
stained glass, metal sculpture, installation
Project references
Portal · Petaled Portal · Beacon
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Bozeman, Montana, and Holualoa, Hawaii, United States
Deborah Butterfield makes horse sculptures whose assembled forms can be cast in bronze from wood models. Museum and public collections document her work in both indoor and outdoor settings.
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Practice
sculpture
Materials in documented works
bronze
Project references
Pohina · Second Daughter · Monekana
Documented contexts
2001 work in SFO’s public-art collection.; 1989 bronze in a museum sculpture garden.
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Representative artist / studio imageImage: deborahcolotti.com ↗Photos: Christine Tweet (as credited at source)individual
Deborah Colotti’s exhibition record spans altered objects, assemblage and installations made for the Black Rock Desert. Her artist résumé records Pit Stop at Burning Man in 2016 and a 2018 Man Base commission, AndroNaut, created in collaboration with Aileen Cormack. The event’s corresponding entry credits the pair as Slightly Twisted Productions and describes a figure whose detached body elements draw on The Wizard of Oz. A later archive entry, Shit$torm in 2022, describes an enterable dollar-sign form using plastic and discarded consumer materials to address waste. The résumé confirms the two earlier exhibition references; the later entry is retained as event-registration evidence. The profile documents this mixture of gallery and participatory practice without treating an older résumé address as a confirmed current studio location.
DeWitt Godfrey develops large steel sculptures through the packing and stacking of cylindrical forms, connecting structural experimentation with specific landscapes.
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Practice
public art, steel sculpture, computational design
Materials in documented works
Corten steel, steel
Project references
Attun · Quake · Concordia
Documented contexts
March 2024 conservancy record and artist portfolio corroborate work.; 2015 municipal collection work on a pedestrian and bicycle route.
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Dimitri Hadzi (1921–2006) created sculpture in bronze, stone, and ceramics, drawing on classical Greek subjects and modernist forms. After an extended period in Rome, he taught at Harvard from 1975 to 1989. MIT identifies his bronze Elmo-MIT (1963) as its first outdoor sculpture, a work that connects helmet-like forms with architecture and themes of power. His public commissions also include Thermopylae at Boston’s John F. Kennedy Federal Building, the basalt arch River Legend (1976) in Portland, and the granite sculpture-fountain Propylaea (1982) in Toledo. GSA documents River Legend as five joined sections of native stone and records its 2013 relocation within the federal-building site. These works are examples of Hadzi’s historical practice; their documented locations do not establish availability for new placement.
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Practice
monumental sculpture, bronze sculpture, stone sculpture, ceramics, public art
Project references
Elmo-MIT · Thermopylae · River Legend
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Don Rimx is the professional name of Edwin Sepúlveda, a fine artist and muralist whose own site identifies him as based in Orlando. His practice combines classical painting techniques with graffiti and compositions influenced by architecture, geometric patterns, and relationships between people and their surroundings. Ogden City documents his Grant Avenue mural series, completed in 2021: five large walls responding to local communities, labor, rail history, and cultural traditions. Washington State’s art collection records La Vision Guiada (2021), an acrylic painting on wood panels for the interior commons of Ridgeline High School in Liberty Lake. That site-responsive commission uses a student figure, a falcon, books, and plant forms to explore learning and personal growth.
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Practice
murals, painting, street art, public art
Project references
Grant Avenue mural series · La Vision Guiada
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Lipski makes sculptures and installations for public spaces. His documented commissions include a monumental baseball-inspired sculpture in Goodyear and works at transit, library, and riverfront sites.
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Practice
public sculpture, monumental sculpture, installation
Materials in documented works
steel, chromed fiberglass, oil on canvas, wood frame
Project references
The Ziz · The Yearling · The Aviators
Documented contexts
Sports venue · Goodyear, Arizona; Public library · Denver, Colorado
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Principal of DO|SU Studio Architecture, developing thermobimetal systems and responsive architectural installations. Her documented projects include Bloom, Drift and several pavilion and kiosk proposals.
Doug Aitken works with moving images, sound, installations, and architecture. Documented U.S. projects include sleepwalkers on MoMA’s exterior, the responsive media facade MIRROR in Seattle, and the traveling Station to Station project.
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Practice
moving image, installation, public art
Project references
Station to Station · sleepwalkers · MIRROR
Documented contexts
Traveling arts project across U.S. cities; Exterior moving-image commission at MoMA
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Douglas Ruuska connects physics, mechanical systems and public participation in large installations. His biography describes work shown in Antarctica, the Black Rock Desert and Boston, and a contribution to the musical pendulums for Björk’s Biophilia project. Mechanica Musica, dated 2016, uses an eight-foot steel wheel as a human-powered programmable music box. Its design combines individually settable pins, hammers and marimba keys, with participants’ movement driving the mechanism; the page also documents the work on the playa. Rayactivation, dated 2018, translates the movement of a cownose ray into an illuminated kinetic sculpture. Its project account discusses motorized wings, fabric tension skins and motion controls, then captions photographs of the finished work at Burning Man. These projects bring scientific observation into shared physical experiences.
Studio founded by Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta, creating experiential sculpture, installations and performances that examine natural phenomena through technology.
Flatmo makes paintings, multimedia work and kinetic sculptures. His El Pulpo projects combine repurposed metal, mechanical movement and flame effects with substantial collaborative fabrication.
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Practice
kinetic sculpture, fire art, painting
Materials in documented works
discarded metal, aluminum, repurposed kitchenware
Project references
El Pulpo Mecanico · El Pulpo Magnifico · El Pulpo Mecanico / El Pulpo Magnifico
Documented contexts
Mobile sculpture · Arcata, California / Burning Man; Kinetic fire sculpture · Eureka, California
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Completed October 2021; airport gateway commission.; Completed October 2019; design and advocacy preceded construction.
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Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose abstract practice emphasized form, color, and spatial relationships. His work translated observations of nature into precise shapes and extended from paintings to monumental outdoor commissions. Houston Triptych (1986) was commissioned for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Cullen Sculpture Garden. Double Curve (1988), a pair of bronze forms, debuted with the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, while White Curve (2009) was commissioned for an outdoor courtyard at the Art Institute of Chicago. His architectural project Austin brought colored glass, a redwood totem, and marble panels together in a contemplative building. Kelly gave the design to the Blanton Museum in 2015; the building opened posthumously in February 2018 with work by Overland Partners.
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abstract sculpture, public art, painting, printmaking
Project references
Houston Triptych · Double Curve · White Curve
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Emily Clanton works across public art and participatory projects for civic, educational and healthcare settings. Her practice combines material engagement with facilitation and documentation. Many Hands, Light Work, completed in 2025, is an exterior tile mural at the Medical University of South Carolina’s James W. Colbert Education Center and Library in Charleston. The artist identifies the Patient and Family Advisory Council as commissioner, MUSC Arts in Healing as manager and Earthbuilt as the fabrication partner for the rammed-earth tiles. Her portfolio also documents Springtime in TR, a 2017 mural in Travelers Rest, South Carolina, executed with student artists through Furman University’s MayX program, and The Ties That Bind Asheville, a participatory fabric installation in Asheville’s River Arts District in 2025. These examples retain their distinct materials, partners and settings without presenting arts-in-health training as proof of clinical outcomes.
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Practice
public murals, participatory installation, community art
Project references
Many Hands, Light Work — tiles fabricated with Earthbuilt · Springtime in TR — executed with Furman MayX student artists · The Ties That Bind Asheville — participatory installation
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Founder and lead artist of In Theory Art Studios. Her public sculptures combine geometric and dichroic forms with narratives about humanity, place and the environment.
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Practice
sculpture, painting, public art, light installation
Materials in documented works
steel, dichroic panels, plexiglass, metal siding
Project references
The Prism of Possibilities · Koro Loko · Miri the Wishing Star
Documented contexts
2021 climate-futures installation and Honoraria record; 2019 sculpture with documented touring presentations
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Led by founder Nimrod Weis, ENESS combines art and technology in temporary and permanent interactive installations for public, cultural and commercial spaces.
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Practice
interactive public art, sculpture, light and sound installation
Materials in documented works
inflatable arches, inflatables, LED eyes
Project references
Airship Orchestra · Sky Castle · I Believe Swings
Documented contexts
Touring interactive installation · Washington, DC and international venues; Interactive public space · Melbourne and touring presentations
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Es Devlin creates participatory installations, public sculptures and stage designs. Documented projects combine landscape, mirrored spaces or audience-generated language with experiences shaped around collective participation.
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Practice
installation, public sculpture, stage design
Project references
Forest for Change · Forest of Us · Please Feed the Lions
Documented contexts
Somerset House courtyard, London Design Biennale, 2021; Film-to-mirror-maze installation at Superblue Miami
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Felipe Ortiz combines wildlife imagery, abstraction and strong color in public murals concerned with migration and adaptation. His artist statement connects migratory birds with his own journey from Colombia to the United States. Plumage, documented at Northeastern University in 2020, uses this visual language on the Stearns Center facade facing Huntington Avenue. The university credits its College of Arts, Media and Design makerspace with laser-cutting butterfly stencils that connect the mural visually to a neighboring Jef Aérosol work. Ortiz’s portfolio also records Past Present Future for Cambridge’s Central Square Mural Project in 2019 and Splash Pollinator #2 at Stoklosa Middle School in Lowell in 2024. These site-specific references show work for educational and neighborhood settings while preserving the role of fabrication collaborators and avoiding a claim about the artist’s current residence.
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Practice
murals, painting, public art
Project references
Plumage — stencil collaboration with the CAMD makerspace · Past Present Future · Splash Pollinator #2
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A fabrication studio joining sculptural art, architectural metalwork and structural fabrication. Its team works with steel and other metals and serves projects in Nevada, California and beyond.
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Practice
sculpture, metal fabrication, public art
Materials in documented works
steel, stainless steel mosaic, LEDs
Project references
Sculptural fabrication practice · Architectural metalwork · The Eddy artist partnership
Documented contexts
Site-specific metal sculpture · studio methods; Building and public-space interfaces · Nevada and California practice
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