Documented artwork / public-art transit fence
The Canyon
Credit as documented: Gordon Huether Studio
The Canyon is Gordon Huether's 2012 artwork incorporated into the airport light-rail platform fence on Salt Lake City's North Temple Airport Line. Its ninety-six-foot profile evokes the Wasatch Mountains. Burnt-orange powder coating covers quarter-inch steel sections, which rise from three feet to nearly nine feet. Vertical segmentation changes the apparent form as pedestrians, trains and cars pass: the mountain profile seems to open or close according to viewpoint.
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At a glance
- Year / version
- 2012
- Materials
- quarter-inch steel, burnt-orange powder coating
- Documented setting
- outdoor
- Dimensions
- 96 ft long; height varies from 3 ft to nearly 9 ft.
- Dimensions apply to
- Documented object or named component scope only; no relocation/engineering specification. Source disagreements and architectural measurements remain explicitly qualified.
- Availability
- Unconfirmed
Places & versions
Installation history
Historical presentations. A past installation does not establish the current location or suitability for a new site.
2012
TRAX airport light-rail platform fence, North Temple Airport Line, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Site
- Light-rail platform fence, North Temple Airport Line, Salt Lake City International Airport
Installation details checked 2026-10-17.
Materials and construction
The municipal public-art account calls this a passively kinetic effect. That description concerns a viewer's movement past the segmented structure and does not establish moving machinery. The documented object is the 2012 TRAX fence; its dimensions must not be attributed to Huether's separate same-named airport terminal installation.
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Sources
- publicart.slc.gov ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17