On this rainy Tuesday, let’s go back to last Saturday, when it was still sunny and warm and the new brick work around Albany’s public art project caught my eye as I passed by on the bike.
Here’s a first look at one of the long-awaited pieces of public art the city of Albany will install at the Lyon Street entrance to downtown.
Albany may get its long-awaited public art project, a set of steel sculptures intended to look like flowers, just before Christmas time.
Somewhere on or near this corner, the city of Albany wants to place a big metal sculpture of wildflowers. So, to think about something other than the corona contagion for a minute, how is that coming along?
Whatever happened to the idea of public art in the shape of giant metal wildflowers sprouting near the Lyon Street entrance to downtown Albany? The $80,000 project was in the news last year, and now it’s up to ODOT to decide whether to permit it in the intended spot.
On a winter night, imagine going down the Pacific Boulevard off-ramp to downtown Albany and, on your right, seeing the petals of giant wildflowers glowing in the dark. Pretty cool, right?
Albany’s stainless art: What it’s called
The four-piece sculpture off Lyon Street near Eighth Avenue in Albany has been up for more than two years. Until now, I didn’t know it had a name.
Tags: art, Deedee Morrison, Integrated Narrative, Lyon Street, sculpture