Aurora Robson transforms discarded plastic into sculpture and installation. Her documented public works combine recovered material with fabrication processes and, in some projects, integrated light or responsive technology.
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Practice
sculpture, installation, public art
Materials in documented works
post-consumer PET bottles, PP and HDPE bottle caps, steel armature, tinted polycrylic (artist) / polyacrylic (Rice)
Project references
Eos · Shhh · Lift
Documented contexts
Practice-level material and fabrication context.; Temporary Troy Glow commission, 2024.
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Creator and producer of interactive public art, including illuminated structures, video installations and touring experiences. This is the studio at bigart.ca, separate from Big Art Partners.
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Practice
interactive installation, public art, light art
Materials in documented works
LED bars, 1000 L water totes, doors, video pixels
Project references
The TUNNEL · The BEACON · The PORTAL
Documented contexts
Interactive light and sound · modular pedestrian route; Light and video installation · Calgary, Canada · 2022 documentation
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Barbara Grygutis creates sculptural and landscape-integrated public art, with documented commissions in transit plazas, street medians and civic parks.
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Practice
public art, sculpture, light installation, landscape integration
Materials in documented works
waterjet-cut stainless steel, LED lights, pigmented concrete, painted metal fencing
Project references
Garden Under the Bridge · Seagrass · Imaginary Garden
Documented contexts
2012 Metro station commission managed through Arts in Transit.; 2011 Long Beach median installation.
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Artist working with sculpture, installation, migration histories and imagined futures. Her documented projects include steel architectural forms and installations that combine historical research with speculative temporalities.
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Practice
sculpture, installation
Materials in documented works
steel, archival materials on video loop, welded steel, feathers
Project references
Trinidad: Joy Station · Memory Insertion Capsule · Chultún El Semillero
Documented contexts
Museum installation · Los Angeles, California · 2019; Steel sculpture and archival video · 2017
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Benjamin Langholz makes large interactive sculptures using stone, steel and kinetic elements, inviting visitors to experience balance, trust and physical awareness. His biography identifies a California origin and a period working in Berlin from 2018 to 2022; it does not establish a current studio city. Stone 27 was created and temporarily installed for Burning Man in 2019, with engineering credited to Amihay Gonen and Amy Kordosky. The portfolio separately documents its later Marin presentation. Stone 11’s Colorado Springs example uses overlapping paths of stones supported by slender steel members, a form described by the local Art on the Streets organizer. The artist dates that exhibition entry to 2021. Another Stone 11 entry records Art City in 2024; these references are not merged into an inferred transfer or a new availability claim.
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Practice
stone sculpture, steel sculpture, kinetic installation, interactive public art
Project references
Stone 27 — engineering by Amihay Gonen and Amy Kordosky · Stone 11 — Colorado Springs exhibition reference
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Bernar Venet develops sculpture from lines, arcs, and relationships between order and instability. Documented U.S. works include Indeterminate Line in Denver and Two Indeterminate Lines at Frederik Meijer Gardens.
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Practice
sculpture, public art
Materials in documented works
Corten steel
Project references
Indeterminate Line · Two Indeterminate Lines · Effondrement
Documented contexts
Public sculpture at the Colorado Convention Center; Rolled-steel sculpture in a sculpture garden
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Beth Cavener makes large ceramic animal forms that convey human psychological states. The selected evidence establishes substantial museum sculpture; it does not establish suitability for exposed outdoor public installation.
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Practice
sculpture, ceramic sculpture
Project references
Beloved (Rearing Deer) · L’Amante
Documented contexts
Artist statement; conceptual context for museum-scale sculpture.; 2017 museum sculpture; indoor handling context.
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Beverly Pepper (1922–2020) made sculpture, earthworks, and spaces combining art with landscape. Documented examples include Harmonious Triad, the Amphisculpture at an AT&T site in New Jersey, and the later L’Aquila Amphisculpture. This record describes her historical practice.
Bill and Mary Buchen work together on public environments that connect sound, movement and spatial experience. Sonic Architecture identifies both artists as its co-founders and describes their interactive work for schools, museums, science centers and playgrounds. Phoenix’s public art register credits both Buchens for Suncatchers at the Arizona Science Center, completed in 1997: five wind-driven sculptures combine light-reflecting elements with mallets and tone bars. The duo’s project portfolio also describes Wind Pavilion, dated 1995, at the WILDS in southeastern Ohio, where wind-harp panels form an octagonal shade structure. Flight Wind Reeds, dated 2003, uses five tall elements with moving forms and bells at the North Carolina Museum of Art. These projects connect collective listening, play and outdoor environmental forces.
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Practice
sound sculpture, interactive public art, kinetic sculpture, environmental design
Project references
Suncatchers · Wind Pavilion · Flight Wind Reeds
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