PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

City of Palm Desert, CA – El Paseo crosswalk designs. Design Team: Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc.

City of Palm Springs, CA - East Palm Canyon Drive Bridge Railing. Design Team: Dokken Engineering

Balboa Park Committee of 100 San Diego, CA - Palisades Fountain Design Project

SELECTED PUBLIC ART PROJECTS BY CHRONOLOGY

PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

City of Palm Desert, CA – 2024, Palm Desert Aquatics Center bench project

City of Palm Desert, CA - 2020, San Pablo Avenue Corridor Improvement Project, crosswalks and bike racks. Design Team: Dokken Engineering, ADL Planning Associates. Awards: American Public Works Association Merit Awards in the categories of Mobility and Revitalization

San Diego International Airport – 2016, Light Sculpture Terminal 2 ceiling node

San Diego Association of Governments – 2015, Hillary Drive Direct Access Ramp. Design Team: Estrada Land Planning

City of Carlsbad, CA - 2014, swim and dive entry panels, mosaic pool towel bench and seat wall inlays for Alga Norte Community Park. Design Team: Wimmer Yamada and Caughey Landscape Architects, Architects Hanna Gabriel Wells, Aquatics Design Inc. Award: 2014 Project of the Year Award, American Public Works Association San Diego and Imperial Counties Chapter

City of Escondido, CA - 2012, terrazzo tables, trellis furniture and mosaic fountain seat wall for Maple Street Pedestrian Plaza. Design Team: Schmidt Design Group, Kimley-Horn and Associates, Lumm-Bohne Civil Construction, Aquatics Design Inc. Award: 2013 Project of the Year Award, American Public Works Association San Diego and Imperial Counties Chapter

City of Palm Desert, CA - 2011, stained and sealed depictions of swim strokes and dive techniques are sandblasted into the pool decks at the Palm Desert Aquatics Center. Design Team: Gould Evans Architects

Groundworks San Diego – 2011, Chollas Creek Trail railing enhancement

Marriott San Diego Hotel and Marina - 2011, holographic finishes on aluminum, polycarbonate and programmable LED entry wall sculpture. Design Team: Martinez Cutri Architects, Randall Lamb Engineers

Sempra LNG, Ensenada, Mexico – 2009, glass tile mural for Casa Azul. Wimmer Yamada and Caughey, Landscape Architects and Sempra Energy

San Diego Association of Governments – 2009, Interstate 15 Bus Rapid Transit Stations Design Team Member: KTU+A Landscape Architects, Manuel Oncina, Architects. Awards: 2009 Project of the Year Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, San Diego Section, 2010 Project of the Year Award, American Public Works Association, San Diego and Imperial Counties Chapter

City of Encinitas, CA – Courtyard Gate – 2008, Encinitas Community Library, City of Encinitas Commission for the Arts. Painted galvanized steel

City of National City, CA – “Portals in Time” – 2007, National City Boulevard Streetscape and Fountain Plaza Promenade Improvement Project. Design Team: Project Design Consultants

City of Ventura, CA - Avenue Water Treatment Plant – 2007, Main gate and service gate. Design Team: AY’s Designs in Iron, Kennedy Jenks Consultants. Award: 2008 Top Job Award, National Ornamental and Miscellaneous Metals Association

City of San Diego, CA - El Cajon Boulevard Transit Plaza - 2006, El Cajon Boulevard at Interstate 15, San Diego, CA. Team: KTU+A Landscape Architects

City of San Diego, CA - “Fire Hose Frieze”- Fire Station Number 31 - 2005, Camino Rico and College Avenue, San Diego, CA. Design Team: Platt/Whitelaw Architects. Awards: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005 Award of Merit, 2006 Honor Award, American Public Works Association, San Diego and Imperial Counties Chapter

City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department - 2004, All Right Storage Building; 6900 Van Nuys Blvd, Van Nuys, CA Design Team: Graham Downes, Architect

City of San Diego Water Department - 2004, Canyonside Community Park – Design Team: Pountney Consulting Group

Price Charities San Diego Revitalization Corporation - 2003, City Heights Urban Village; Design Team: Martinez Cutri Architects and Planners, E-Scape Design, Landscape Architects

City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department - 2003, Metrolink grade separation, Van Nuys, CA. Design Team: Department of Transportation, Bureau of Engineering

City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department - 2002, Alex Baum Bike Bridge. Los Feliz Boulevard at the Los Angeles River, Los Angeles, CA. Design Team: Bureau of Engineering

San Diego Metropolitan Wastewater Department - 2001, South Bay Water Reclamation Plant, San Diego, CA. Design Team: Parsons Engineering Science, Platt/Whitelaw Architects and Garbini and Garbini Landscape Architects

City of Imperial Beach - 2001, Highway median glass mosaic wave sculpture. Design Team: Wimmer Yamada and Caughey Landscape Architects

San Diego Power and Cooling Company - 2000, Kettner Avenue and Broadway, downtown San Diego, CA. Private development

City of San Diego Park and Recreation Department - 1999, Carmel Valley Community Park, San Diego, CA. Design Team: KTU+A Landscape Architects and Platt/Whitelaw Architects. Award: California Park and Recreation Society, 1999 Award for Excellence for Facility Design in a Community

City of San Diego Water Department - 1999, 65th and Herrick Water Pump Station. Precast concrete art panel. Design Team: Platt/Whitelaw Architects

City of Coronado - 1999, Silver Strand Beautification Project; State Highway 75, Coronado, CA. Design Team: Schmidt Design Group, Inc., Tierra Environmental Services Awards: 1999 Honor Award - American Society of Landscape Architects, San Diego Chapter. 2000 Orchid Award for Landscape Architecture / Environmental Solutions

City of Carlsbad Arts Office - 1998, Leo Carrillo Ranch/Park Master Plan. Design Team: KTU+A Landscape Architects, Milford Wayne Donaldson, Architect. Awards: California Preservation Foundation Design Award for Leo Carrillo Ranch Master Plan, 1998. American Society of Landscape Architects, San Diego Chapter, Merit Award, 1999

City of San Diego Water Utilities Department - 1997, Pump Station 77. Design Team: Spurlock Porier Landscape Architects and Planners and Manuel Oncina, Architect Awards: American Society of Civil Engineers, Outreach Award, 1998, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Liquid Art Award for “Viewage”, Pump Station 77, City of San Diego, Water/Utilities Department, 2001

San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board - 1996, Old Town Transit Station, San Diego, CA. Design Team: KTU+A Landscape Architects. Award: Orchid Award for Fine Art, 1997

Children’s Museum of San Diego - 1994, "Incunabula" Toddler’s Exhibit Award: Orchid Award for Interiors for the Children’s Museum of San Diego, 1994

City of San Diego Waste Management Department – 1991, Miramar Landfill Master Plan. Design Team: Martinez Cutri Architects, Delorenzo Assoc., Burkett & Wong

City of San Diego Waste Management Department – 1991, Materials Recovery Facility, Miramar Landfill. Design Team: Wimmer Yamada Landscape Architects

City of San Diego Department of Engineering - 1990, vapor extraction unit, Central Police Station maintenance garage.

City of Newport Beach, CA - 1988, Inspiration Point, Beach Access, Newport Beach, CA. Design Team: Cunningham Design Landscape Architects, Helen and Newton Harrison, Artists and Marcello Petrocelli, Artist

Santa Barbara Sites Project - 1986, Theoretical environmental solutions for six sites in and around Santa Barbara, CA. Design Team: Helen and Newton Harrison, Paul Hobson, Marcello Petrocelli, Manuel Unzueta and Richard Aber

SELECTED TO DEVELOP DESIGN PROPOSALS (PARTIAL LIST)

Purple Line Art-in-Transit Program – 2017, Finalist, Silver Spring Maryland Library

Palm Beach County Art in Public Places Program – 2016, Finalist, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Evidence and Impound Facility Perimeter Barrier

Grand Junction, CO – 2015, Business Improvement District, Finalist, Horizon Drive Corridor Improvements Project Bridge Railing Enhancement

City of Escondido, CA - 2014, Finalist, Grape Day Park Project, design Team: Estrada Land Planning, Nasland Engineering

Town of Cary, NC -2013, Finalist, Fire Station #2, 2013, Park, Recreation and Cultural Recourses Department

City of La Mesa, CA – 2011, Finalist, Centennial Legacy Project

Port of San Diego - 2011 – Finalist, America’s Cup Harbor Parking Facility Public Art Project

Town of Cary, NC - 2009, Finalist, Walker Street Extension, Park, Recreation and Cultural Recourses Department

San Diego County Regional Airport Authority – 2009, Finalist, Performing Arts Venue, Design Team: Jean Isaacs, Choreographer, Steve Baker, Musician

City of San Diego Engineering and Capital Projects Department – 2009, Finalist, 25th Street Renaissance Project, Design Team: Estrada Land Planning, Nasland Engineering.

San Diego County Regional Airport Authority – 2009, Finalist, Commuter Terminal Elevator Lobby

City of Los Angeles Bridge Improvement Program – 2008, Finalist, San Fernando Road Bike Path Over Tujunga Wash

City of Madison, WI – 2008, Finalist, Goodman Pool Public Art Project

City of Scottsdale, AZ – 2007, Finalist, Pima Road and Pinnacle Peak Improvement Project, Scottsdale Cultural Council

City of Compton, CA – Finalist, Del Amo Metro Station, 2007 – Finalist, Metrolink Blue Line

City of Burbank, CA – 1999, “Scudding Clouds” sculpture design for plant entrance.

City of Escondido, CA – 1996, Finalists, pocket park design for the Grand Avenue Art Corridor. Design Team: Schmidt Design, Platt Whitelaw Architects

City of Indian Wells, CA – 1994, Finalists, date tree design for the entrance to the City.

GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

Juried Biennial - 2021, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA.

Minis Show - 2021, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA.

IYASI 癒し / Healing: What did you create in the Time of Coronavirus?! - 2021, Inamori Pavilion, Japanese Friendship Garden, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA

Small Images Show - 2020, San Dieguito Art Guild

Small Sculpture Show - 2020, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA

Still Life Exhibition - 2020, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA

Gallery Selections - 2018, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA

Minis Show - 2017, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA

TECHNICAL CONSULTANT for BAUHAUS ARTIST herbert bayer 1985 - Ongoing

I continue to provide curatorial consultation for Bauhaus Master hebert bayer’s estate and posthumous installations of his artwork.

  • Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO - Recreation of herbert bayer’s “Four Gates” sculpture. Design Team: A.Y.’s Designs in Iron, TIS Construction Services

  • Contributing commentator in the production of “A Sense of Place: Santa Barbara’s Public Art Legacy”, June 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT6EU0gx1ww

  • Featured in “geometry of an illusionist” the anthology paintings of herbert bayer 1976 – 1983 exhibition catalogue, Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO, Summer 2009

  • Honored Guest, Americans For the Arts Convention, 2009 - Earthwork Tour, herbert bayer’s Mill Creek Canyon Earthwork, City of Kent, WA

  • Historical assistance to Bernard Jazzar, Curator, “metamorphosis – transformation in herbert bayer’s imagery”, 1928 – 1940

  • Historical assistance to University of Washington project, Channeling herbert bayer, 2007 – 2008

  • Ongoing technical assistance to the herbert bayer Archive, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

  • Consultant/Technical Coordinator including museum and gallery exhibitions, painting and sculpture restoration for the herbert bayer archive, 1985 – 1988

  • “Chromatic Gate”, 1987, 25’ high painted aluminum sculpture, Santa Barbara, CA Community presentations, technical coordination, supervision of fabrication and installation of a herbert bayer sculpture

  • Curatorial assistance and execution of a ten foot sculpture for the exhibition of "herbert bayer: A Decade in Santa Barbara" at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 1986

  • herbert bayer, the complete work, 1984, curatorial assistance on a book by Arthur A. Cohen, published by MIT Press

STUDIO ASSISTANT to BAUHAUS MASTER herbert bayer 1976 to 1985

I performed a full range of studio management tasks for artist herbert bayer including: execution of paintings, sculpture, murals, tapestries, tile design, graphic design and environmental artwork. I also performed many public art related duties while serving as artistic supervisor for numerous Bayer projects including:

  • "Articulated Wall", 1985, 85' high concrete sculpture, Denver, CO. Execution of drawings and models, fabrication and installation oversight

  • “Maler, Designer, Architekt”, 1985, technical advisor in the production of a film on herbert bayer for German Public Television

  • “Tubular Mural”, 1984, painted aluminum, ARCO Dallas. Execution of model and full-size mockup

  • “Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks”, 1982, five-acre park and flood control, Kent, WA. Execution of drawings and models, fabrication and installation oversight

  • “Walk in Space Painting”, 1981, concrete sculpture faced with glazed brick; Arco Executive Training Center, Montecito, CA

  • “Wall Relief”, 1979, painted aluminum sculpture, Arco Building, Dallas, TX

  • “Gate in Four Parts”, 1979, painted aluminum gate sculpture, Arco, Dallas, TX

  • Atrium Floor Ceramic Tile inlays – 1978, ARCO Chemical and Polymer, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania