Cochrane creates monumental figurative sculptures, including The Bliss Project, a series developed with model Deja Solis and a volunteer fabrication team for Burning Man and subsequent public settings.
Martin Puryear is a sculptor whose documented public work includes the bronze Bearing Witness, the temporary installation Big Bling, and the brick structure Lookout. These projects connect material craft with large public and landscape settings.
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sculpture, public art
Materials in documented works
debarked western red cedar (posts and framing), clear, heart white oak (decking, handrails, and benches), clear, heart redwood (canopy), stainless steel mesh
Project references
Big Bling · Bearing Witness · Lookout
Documented contexts
Temporary monumental sculpture in Madison Square Park; Art in Architecture commission in Washington, D.C.
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Martin Taylor makes faceted metal sculptures under the Chromaforms name, bringing digital modeling and hand-shaped fabrication together in forms inspired by origami. His biography identifies a base in Paris and California and a background in mechanical engineering. The large-sculpture portfolio includes Cosmic Voyager from 2018, The Seed of Dreams from 2022 and Touch the Sky from 2023, using stainless steel, weathered steel and light in different combinations. His CV separately records Burning Man honoraria for these projects and exhibitions or installations at Canal Convergence in Scottsdale, downtown Vacaville and San Francisco’s Big Art Loop. Those CV entries establish presentation history at the program level; they do not identify which physical edition appeared at every venue. Chromaforms is Taylor’s practice name, not a second artist identity.
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metal sculpture, light sculpture, large-scale installation
Project references
Cosmic Voyager — with The Chromaforms Collective · The Seed of Dreams — with Chromaforms Art Collective · Touch the Sky
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Mary Fuller McChesney (1922–2022) was a sculptor and art historian whose career joined ceramic experimentation with public commissions. SFO Museum documents her California Faience apprenticeship, wartime welding experience and later work at Sonoma Mountain. During the 1970s she developed larger public sculptures by carving a slowly drying mixture of cement, sand and vermiculite. San Francisco’s civic collection records Dos Liones for San Francisco General Hospital, animal sculptures and an Untitled ensemble for Portsmouth Square, and Earth, Air, Sea for the Westside Pump Station. The collection identifies cast stone, cast concrete and colored mosaic among these works’ materials. This historical profile supports research into civic sculpture; the locations are documented commission or collection sites, with present display, relocation and access unconfirmed.
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public sculpture, ceramic sculpture, concrete sculpture
Matt Elson’s Infinity Boxes use mirrors, color and light to make perception a shared experience. The Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester exhibited nine boxes from October 2014 to January 2015. Its account describes viewers looking in from opposite sides and documents Infinity Box No. 2: You and Me Together, dated 2012. Elson’s later Burning Man references extend the practice into other configurations. The 2018 archive lists The Borromean Knot (Infinity Ship No. 1) with Infinite Community; the 2024 entry TANZER credits Elson alongside Sterling Roth, Bill Clark, Shlomo Zippel, Brian Pinkham and Maff Scott. Those entries preserve collective authorship and event-registration context. They do not establish a current studio base or independently confirm the completion of every proposed configuration.
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interactive installation, mirror and light installation, immersive art
Project references
Infinity Box No. 2: You and Me Together · The Borromean Knot (Infinity Ship No. 1) — with Infinite Community; event listing · TANZER — with Sterling Roth, Bill Clark, Shlomo Zippel, Brian Pinkham and Maff Scott; event listing
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Matthew Schultz is a monumental sculptor and founder of The Pier Group. His studio documents large collaborative environments and sculptures, including The Space Whale, a stained-glass humpback mother and calf credited with Andy Tibbetts and Android Jones. It first appeared at Burning Man in 2016; the artist’s page documents its later downtown Reno setting. The Pier began in 2011 and gained the ninety-foot Spanish galleon La Llorona in 2012, with the studio also recording a 2017 appearance. Embrace was a seven-story collaborative work for Burning Man 2014. Head Maze was designed as a four-story, eighteen-room environment, but the studio explicitly states that it was only partially installed in 2019. Completion of its proposed permanent version is not established.
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Practice
monumental sculpture, installation, stained glass
Project references
The Space Whale · The Pier and La Llorona · Head Maze
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Maya Lin works across art, architecture, and landscape. Documented U.S. installations include Storm King Wavefield, an earth-and-grass work, and Ghost Forest, a temporary installation of dead Atlantic white cedars in Madison Square Park.
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landscape art, installation, public art
Project references
Storm King Wavefield · Ghost Forest
Documented contexts
Earth-and-grass installation at Storm King; Conservation and visitor access for a living earthwork
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An audiovisual collective comprising Sasha Kojjio, Alisa Davydova and Alexander Medvedev. Their collaborative practice combines light, sound, programming and spatial installation.
Michael Benisty develops large sculptures and digital works around relationships, connection and shared experience. His portfolio uses mirror-polished stainless steel across human and abstract forms, reflecting their surroundings as visitors move around them. The artist dates Mirage to 2017 and Broken But Together to 2019, while listing Broken 2.0 and Broken 3.0 separately in later years. At The Aurora Highlands’ Hogan Park, an operator account published in November 2024 describes a Broken But Together installation as fractured figures standing united. The artist’s portfolio and the park operator report different heights for that title, so no single size or numbered edition is assigned to the Aurora example here. These references distinguish a dated portfolio work from a documented public presentation rather than treating similarly named versions as one confirmed physical object.
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Practice
large-scale sculpture, stainless steel sculpture, digital art
Project references
Mirage — artist portfolio work · Broken But Together — Hogan Park example
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Christian makes large steel sculptures derived from organic forms. His practice spans public spaces, private collections, and festivals, including work documented in San Francisco's Big Art Loop.
Michael Emery creates participatory installations using reflective metal, ceramic tile, painting and sound. Burning Man’s archives credit his practice from Santa Cruz and Felton, California, across several event years. PARAGATE, described in the 2017 archive, combines an eleven-foot steel portal with a mosaic of small mirrors and an audio collage. Nirmanakaya uses sculpted ceramic tiles, a monolith and voice-changing microphones, while VIMOKSHA explores fragmented reflections and layered sound. Later references include the patterned steel dome Mercurialosity and the painted rectangular form Return of the Dreamtime. The portfolio below records named festival projects and their event-year contexts; it does not establish their current condition, location or availability. This is the California installation artist, without any asserted connection to artists with the same name elsewhere.
Miguel Guzman is an installation artist documented by Burning Man in repeated collaborations with Iyvone Khoo. Their Rain God, Chaac combines Mayan-inspired imagery with animal figures and mycelium components, while A Moment in an Aeon takes the form of a lotus-shaped portal. The 2025 archive describes Ghost Whale Shrine as a suspended whale-marionette environment using mycelium and recycled plastic. Ancestors of Dawn explores shelter, regeneration and relationships between species; the official Honoraria announcement credits Dust Spores Studio alongside Guzman and Khoo. UC San Diego’s Latz Laboratory also records Guzman assisting Khoo’s 2015 bioluminescence research. These sources support an individual artist profile with explicit shared authorship. They do not establish an independently operated studio, a current base, or the present availability of the documented installations.
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installation, sculpture, biological-material art, recycled-material art
Project references
Rain God, Chaac (with Iyvone Khoo) · A Moment in an Aeon (with Iyvone Khoo) · Ancestors of Dawn (with Iyvone Khoo and Dust Spores Studio)
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Moral Turgeman is a multidisciplinary artist and founder of Raise the Moral, a studio working across art, architecture and design. Its practice combines crafted objects and technology in sensory environments, interactive installations and sculptural furniture. The studio identifies permanent locations in Los Angeles, New York and Portugal; those locations describe the organization rather than a verified personal residence. Its project list records The Little House as an installation and experience presented in Black Rock City, Los Angeles and New York in 2015. Heinrich’s Dreamscape is listed in 2019 as a traveling collective sensory experience associated with New York. Later work extends this approach into design exhibitions, including the Becoming Familiar presentation at Design Miami in 2023. The dated portfolio entries document distinct presentations, without establishing current siting or availability.
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sensory installation, sculpture, spatial design, participatory art
Project references
The Little House — selected 2015 presentations · Heinrich’s Dreamscape — traveling sensory experience · Becoming Familiar A
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Lisa and Robert Ferguson work together as Mr and Mrs Ferguson, making public animal sculptures whose surfaces reward close inspection. Their grizzly bears use pennies as a textured covering, turning a familiar small object into the apparent fur of a much larger form. Curious was installed at Google’s public Visitor Experience/Gradient park in September 2022; the artist account describes a carved polystyrene body over steel, penny covering, glass eyes and a hammered-steel nose. Ursa Ravus was installed in Telluride in July 2019. Its project credit names assistants Jane Poynter and Dottie Lester, Tanner Reed for the metal nose and claws, and Bee Kingdom Glass for the eyes. Mum, a mother-and-cub sculpture made in 2022, traveled from Chatsworth’s Radical Horizons exhibition to Mountain Village. That later display’s advertised ending is not proof of a completed removal.
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public sculpture, figurative sculpture, mixed-media sculpture
Designer and engineer leading Studio INI. Her documented installations reshape physical architecture through human movement, combining engineered structures with direct public interaction.
Nick Geurts is a Denver artist and structural engineer who works with Ryan Elmendorf through the Elmendorf/Geurts public-art practice. His studio biography connects his metalworking and structural background to large interactive works, including an early musical-tree project supported by a Burning Man honorarium. The pair’s civic commissions include Sky Song, which lets visitors trigger light and bell sounds at Denver’s Levitt Pavilion, and True West, an interactive compass at Green Valley Ranch Town Center Park. Their Seesaw Wave Machine links individual movement through a connected mechanical installation, while Light Pond responds to sound with patterns of light across a paved surface in Aurora. This individual profile preserves Elmendorf’s co-authorship; these documented projects are portfolio references and do not establish current artwork availability.
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interactive public art, sculpture, kinetic installation, light and sound installation
Project references
Sky Song (with Ryan Elmendorf) · True West (with Ryan Elmendorf) · Seesaw Wave Machine (with Ryan Elmendorf)
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Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002) created large figurative sculptures, architectural environments, and sculpture gardens distinguished by color and imaginative forms. Her Nana figures and inhabitable structures brought sculpture into everyday public space. Sun God (1983), a fiberglass bird above a concrete arch, was the Stuart Collection’s first commission at UC San Diego; Robert Haligon’s studio fabricated the bird. Her Tarot Garden in Capalbio developed from 1978 to 1998 as a landscape of monumental figures and buildings. American projects include Coming Together (2001) at the San Diego Convention Center and Queen Califia’s Magical Circle in Escondido. The latter opened in 2003 after her death, with completion overseen by her granddaughter Bloum Cardenas and longtime assistants.
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monumental sculpture, architectural sculpture, sculpture gardens, public art
Project references
Sun God · Tarot Garden · Coming Together
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