For the past few days I had been been hoping to catch up with the artist who created a new mural on Second Avenue in Albany. And late on Tuesday I did.
Art project off Lyon gets enhancements
Written October 5th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
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.
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Tags: Albany Arts Commission, Deedee Morrison, metal wildlflowers, public art
Tags: Albany Arts Commission, Deedee Morrison, metal wildlflowers, public art
Public art site: More work is planned there
Written August 23rd, 2021 by Hasso Hering
Albany’s public art project at the south entrance to downtown, installed in December 2020, may get some enhancements of the grounds around it before it is formally “unveiled.” But the timing is uncertain.
In the dark: Look at those sculpture lights
Written May 14th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
For weeks the colored lights on Albany’s steel wildflower sculptures had been giving the city fits, in the words of Rick Barnett of the parks department. But now the one light that refused to work before has been fixed.
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Tags: Albany public art, lighted wildlflowers, public art, willdlflower sculptures
Tags: Albany public art, lighted wildlflowers, public art, willdlflower sculptures
Flower sculpture update: Lights fixed, mostly
Written March 18th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
You may recall the Feb. 23 story here about the colored LEDs on Albany’s downtown wildflower sculptures. The good news is that the lights have been fixed.
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Tags: downtown art installation, flower art, Lyon and Ninth, Pacific Boulevard off-ramp, public art, wildflower art project
Tags: downtown art installation, flower art, Lyon and Ninth, Pacific Boulevard off-ramp, public art, wildflower art project
To fix the lights on those steel flowers
Written February 23rd, 2021 by Hasso Hering
Changing colored lights are a significant nighttime feature of the four steel sculptures in the grassy area near the Pacific Boulevard off-ramp to Lyon Street in downtown Albany. But lately they’ve not come on.
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Tags: Albany public art, Lyon and Pacific off-ramp, public art, steel wildflowers
Tags: Albany public art, Lyon and Pacific off-ramp, public art, steel wildflowers
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Fifteen years on, the zombie still flies
Someone must have looked up from the street on First Avenue and didn’t like what they saw. Which may explain the email I got last week.
Tags: Albany downtown, downtown, Icarus, mural, murals, mythology, public art