Restaurant Row – Maori Column

 Posted by on January 15, 2012
Jan 152012
 
50 Third Street
Ducca Restaurant Courtyard
Westin Hotel
Museum Row

This piece is titled Maori Column and is by Alan Shepp.  It was done in 1985.

Shepp, along with his artist wife, lives in Napa California.  He has a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and an MFA from the University of Washington.

He is a multimedia artist who creates large scale sculpture and public art.

There is not a lot of information out there, either about this artist or this piece, but his website has some really gorgeous work on it.

Isamu Noguchi on Museum Row

 Posted by on January 14, 2012
Jan 142012
 
Isamu Noguchi on Museum Row

50 Third Street Ducca Restaurant Walkway Museum Row  Fat Dancer  Rain Mountain Figure Emerging These three figures are by Isamu Noguchi. Noguchi ranks up there as one of my all time favorite sculptors, but I must admit, this is not my favorite medium for him. (November 17, 1904 – December 30, 1988) Isamu Noguchi was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces, some of which Continue Reading

Museum Row – Stream of Vessels

 Posted by on January 13, 2012
Jan 132012
 
Museum Row - Stream of Vessels

50 Third Street Ducca Restaurant Walkway Museum Row   These are in the walkway between Ducca Restaurant and the Contemporary Jewish Museum.  They are titled Stream of Vessels, done in 1997 by David Nash of charred oak. David Nash  is a British sculptor based in Blaenau Ffestiniog.  He is known for works in wood and shaping living trees. His large wood sculptures are sometimes carved or partially burned to produce blackening. His main tools for these sculptures are a chainsaw and axe to carve the wood and a blowtorch to char the wood. He attended Brighton College from 1959 to 1963, then Continue Reading

Museum Row – Les Funambules

 Posted by on January 12, 2012
Jan 122012
 
Museum Row - Les Funambules

50 Third Street Ducca Restaurant walkway Museum Row Attached to the Westin Hotel is Ducca Restaurant.  They have an open walkway between 3rd street and the Jewish Museum.  In that walkway is seating and dining.  Throughout that area is art. This piece is “Les Funambules” by Charles Ginnever, done in Bronze in 1991. Ginnever is an American sculptor. He was born in San Mateo, California, in 1931. In 1957, he received his BA from the San Francisco Art Institute and received his MFA from Cornell University in 1959. He started working with canvas and steel scraps painted with bright patterns. The Continue Reading

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