Best develops elaborate wooden temples with volunteer crews and participating communities. His installations provide spaces for reflection and remembrance at Burning Man and in other public settings.
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Practice
monumental installation, wood sculpture, participatory art
Materials in documented works
1973 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
Project references
Temple · Community temple projects · Rocket Car
Documented contexts
Museum installation · Washington, DC; Participatory construction · public spaces
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David Date’s archive-listed work explores human-powered motion, light and participatory structures. Burning Man identifies him with Santa Cruz and records Kinetic MerKaBa Vehicle in 2017: visitors climb a spiral staircase into an upholstered rotating structure, with a gong sounded by its movement. MerKaBa Portal, listed in 2019 and again in 2022, also invites participants to climb inside and turn amid pulsing light. Myriapoda Robota, the 2018 mechanical-centipede project, is credited jointly to Date, David Han and Art to Be Continued Collective. These records document a collaborative kinetic practice; they do not establish present installation locations or whether repeated titles refer to unchanged physical objects.
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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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
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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.
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