Berlin, Germany; Mexico City, Mexico; Los Angeles, California, United States
Olivia Steele uses illuminated language to introduce moments of reflection into landscapes, interiors and public places. Her hand-formed neon phrases extend into road signs, fire pieces and interventions on found objects. The artist identifies Berlin, Mexico City and Los Angeles as places where she lives and works. In Colorado, her public-art portfolio documents The Only Way Out is Through at The Aurora Highlands, a tunnel mural made with Berlin street artist SNYDER. The collaboration combines graffiti, neon and a phoenix image to address perseverance and renewal. The same portfolio records a separate PDA presentation at The Aurora Highlands. Those entries show different ways textual art can operate in a neighborhood setting, but neither supplies an installation year or dimensions. The tunnel collaboration is credited to both artists.
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Practice
neon art, public installation, text-based art, site-specific art
Project references
The Only Way Out is Through — with SNYDER · PDA — The Aurora Highlands presentation
Oz Wilcox develops participatory installations built around anonymous secrets, enclosed spaces, sound and transformation. Burning Man’s archives identify him from Richland, Washington; the 2022 project 38 explicitly credits Oz Wilcox – CrazySafe Art. Big Dirty Secret is described as a walk-in office-like cube where visitors encounter and share secrets. Spiral of Secrets organizes four winding passages around an atrium and includes a mural direction credit for CaroCaro. Atomic Secrets revisits the collected material inside another cube with printed cards and a sound collage. These references document the artist’s festival practice across 2018–2025. Described burn effects and planned structures are treated as project descriptions, not proof that a particular burn occurred or that any structure remains available.
Paige Bradley makes figurative sculpture across several materials and scales. Her documented bronze works include the illuminated Expansion and the enlarged balancing figure Balance, with specific versions identified by the studio.
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Practice
sculpture, figurative sculpture
Materials in documented works
bronze, motor, stainless steel
Project references
Expansion (Life Size) · Balance (Heroic) · Any Possible Relation
Documented contexts
Specific 2019 version; no installed location or available edition inferred.; Specific heroic bronze version, 2005.
Paige Tashner makes illuminated, participatory metal sculptures from her Point Richmond practice, often using cats as a way to invite play and connection. Stardust, a flying-saucer-shaped bench with suspended lights, was installed at Burning Man in 2018 and subsequently shown at the Portland Winter Light Festival. The Purr Pods followed in 2019 as large mild-steel cats inspired by her pets. Trust debuted in 2023 as five cat forms arranged in a circle, with activities intended to connect visitors. Her portfolio distinguishes later presentations of individual Trust cats from the original complete configuration. The artist also reports that Purrmaid, a cat-and-mermaid installation focused on kelp forests, reached Burning Man in 2026. That recent presentation is attributed to the artist’s dated project history, without asserting independently verified current siting.
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Practice
metal sculpture, interactive installation, light art
Project references
Stardust · Purr Pods · Trust — original five-cat configuration
panGenerator is a Warsaw new-media art and design collective established in 2010. The group combines physical objects, digital systems and audience participation across commissioned installations and experimental interfaces.
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Practice
interactive installation, new media art, sound art
Project references
Constellaction · The Wall of Sound · Spiralalala
Documented contexts
Copernicus Science Centre / Przemiany Festival commission, 2013; Katowice Street Art 2019: Urban Sound commission
Patrick Dougherty built monumental woven-sapling installations responding to their sites. His studio biography states that he has retired from large onsite installations; these examples document his historical practice.
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Practice
sculpture, site-specific installation
Materials in documented works
locally harvested willow, local willow, willow from Quebec, local willow saplings
Project references
Fit for a King · Cursive Takes a Holiday · Daydreams
Documented contexts
Completed 2022 installation; historical example.; Practice and retirement status; no present commission offer.
Peter Erskine is the visual artist behind solar-spectrum installations that use sunlight, prisms, mirrors, and architecture. Documented projects include a California library, a Los Angeles police facility, and the Lucy Curci Cancer Center.
Peter Hazel creates large sculptures using glass, ceramic mosaics, steel and lighting, drawing on a long career in tile work. His studio biography places his current headquarters at Artech in northeast Reno. His portfolio includes Bloom, a forty-foot jellyfish assembled from 1,600 recycled fused-glass jellyfish bowls, and identifies the project as a Burning Man Honorarium work in 2017 and 2018. Fly By combines fused glass, steel and LEDs; the artist records displays at Burning Man in 2015 and at South Lake Tahoe and Reno venues in 2016. His Dragonfly at Virginia Lake is documented as a public art installation for the City of Reno, using steel, glass and recycled ceramics. These examples span festival-scale environments and civic outdoor sculpture.
Peter Woytuk’s animal sculpture uses cast forms and enlarged volumes; institutional examples include bulls and a four-elephant zoo entrance commission.
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Practice
figurative sculpture, bronze sculpture, public sculpture
Materials in documented works
bronze
Project references
Bulls · Bull #4 · North Carolina Zoo elephant commission
Documented contexts
University building landscape; Museum landscape grouping
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Philip DePoala makes sculpture and interactive installations that connect figurative forms, masks and questions about perception. Trained at the Woodstock School of Art and Pratt Institute, he has collaborated with EDGE Neuroscience & Art and its president Tatiana Lupashina since 2018. Together they lead Oculus, a luminous eye sculpture that explores visual perception; Burning Man’s 2022 archive credits both artists with EDGE. His 2018 project Are You My Mother?, credited with Intrepid Arts, is described as a tall steel automaton holding a humanoid infant. Bats in the Belfry, credited to DePoala with EDGE in the 2025 archive, combines a mask shrine, animated LED pathways and a participant-operated gong. These are distinct documented projects; their present locations and availability are unconfirmed.
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