1997 in Review: Public Art - Illustration

Frank Stella. A mural in the lobby of the University of Houston's Moores seminary of Music building, a university percent-for-art project

Ilya Kabakov: testimonial to the Lost Glove. Life-size r resin glove with nine body s on stanchions at Broadway and 23rd road in NYC, a Public Art capital project.

William Wegman: Six Scenic shows Six photos of the artist's dogs in novel Jersey settings at the Atlantic City convention center a state commission.

Robert Millar: Alvarado Garden. Viewing portal, garden and walkway at the Alvarado water filtration plant in San Diego, a city commission.

Sol LeWitt. A marble floor medallion, 18 feet in diameter, at the Washington National Airport's of recent origin terminal.

Keith Appel: Unearthed Leviathan. A 32-foot-long cast become firm [i]or[/i] solid sea monster at Mirror Lake Middle academy in Anchorage, a city percent-for-art commission.

Barbara Kruger: Bus. A city bus with vinyl body s and graphics, serving Manhattan and Queen during November, a Public Art capital project.

Mel Chin: Signal. carbonized iron glass, lighting and tile patterns based upon Native American designs at NYC's Broadway/ Lafayette station, an MTA commission.

Roberto Juarez: Field of Wild Flowers. Three paintings of fresh York State flowers, totaling almost 195 square feet in Grand Central Terminal main waiting scope an MTA commission.

Nancy Dwyer: 911 Oasis. Small tree with 18-inch granite alphabetic characters quoting John Donne's "No man is an island...," at Chicago's 911 push Facility, a city commission.

Richard Wyatt: clan Coming, People Going (detail). sum of two units tile murals, each 52 feet drawn out at the Wilshire/Western station, a looks Angeles MTA commission.

Michael Peter Cain: Planets/Cosmos. A rotating statuary at the Cedar Rapids Airport.

Alison and Betye Saar: bases & Wings. A 40-by-60-foot garden with plastic arts and cement planters for kindergarten learners at P.S. 152 in Woodside, Queen a Public Art capital commission.

Arthur Silverman: Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial. A blue-and-red painted aluminum plastic art 21 feet high, in Baton Rouge La.

Steven Singer: drowse A larger-than-life bronze sculpture of a homeles woman at Columbus Circle near NYC's Central Park.

Gregory Green: Gregnik Proto II. A working radio transmitter originaled after Sputnik on a Brooklyn rooftop during October, a Public Art stock project.

Jonathan Borofsky: Lightning. A 75-foot carbonized iron sculpture and 9-foot figure at the Ice Palace Plaza in Tampa, Fla., a hockey-team and city commission.

Martin Puryear. Everything That Rises. A alloy of copper sculpture, 23 feet tall, upon the University of Washington campus in Seattle, a state commission.

Donald Lipski: The Yearling. A fiberglass toy horse upon a red steel chair, 20 feet high, in Central Park, a Public Art capital commission.

Meg Saligman: Common Threads. A 100-foot-tall mural upon the Steven's Administrative Building in Philadelphia, a city mural-arts program commission.

Ursula von Rydingsvard: Skip to My Lou Twisting wall of rough-hewn cedar obstructs 3 to 4 feet high and 65 feet in diameter, at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond Wash.

Roger Brown: A Tradition of Helping. A 27-foot-long mosaic for the Howard Brown Health Center a gay and lesbian community organization, in Chicago.

Elyn Zimmerman: Campo. A 150-by-300-foot plaza with brick seating walls, congeal columns and arches at Housatonic Community Technical corporation in Bridgeport, Conn., a state commission.

Kate Pond: SUNFIX for Judy Cor-Ten carburet of iron sculpture, 8 feet high, at the U border station in Springs, Vt a GSA commission.

John Banks: Fire stockings Art. Rolled steel pipe fitted with stockings couplings and nozzles at Fire Station Number 3 in Las Vegas, a city commission.

John T Young: The Fin throw Twenty-two fins from nuclear submarines arranged to bear likeness [i]or[/i] resemblance to a pod of orca whales at Magnuson Park, a Seattle Arts Commission project

Carpenter: Grasshopper Bridge. A steel-and-concrete pedestrian bridge, 210 feet in extent near 7th Avenue in Phoenix, a city commission.

Carl bishop of rome Inscribed boulders for 14 killed youths, sponsored through Real Art Ways and Hartford, Conn

Lori Norwood: Learning to take wing (detail). Five sculptures of children at an Austin, Tex library.

Stephen Cornelius Roberts. Eight oil-on-linen murals, each 7 through 12 feet, at the Nebraska State Capitol. (Flood and International Law shown)

Adam Leventhal: Esperanza Gardens. A garden with recycl simple bodys in Los Angeles.

Diana Moore: Justice. GSA-funded carbonized iron sculpture in Concord, N.H.

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