Hi Lynn,
Steve Locke is an amazing artist that has recently taken his studio practice into the public realm. With his project "Three Deliberate Grays for Freddie" outside the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 'Love Letters to a Library’ developed out of the Boston AIR program, and his proposal for an auction block memorial to enslaved Africans and African-Americans.
His practice is rooted in portraiture, language, and the discursive power of nature. Currently, a tenured professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Locke has
been included in group shows all over the world, and his work is in the collections of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
Hello Lynn,
Artist Mark Horst comes to mind. He was a studio painter and is completing a powerful community based sculpture called “Vecinos”. First he transitioned
with murals and then moved on to sculpture.
https://markhorststudio.com/
Best,
Nan Masland
Public Art Project Coordinator
Bernalillo County
(505) 314-0467
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Subject: Examples needed of artists who made the leap from studio to first public art commission
I'm writing two new chapters for the second edition of The Artist's Guide to Public Art. One is in response to the question I get asked most often by artists which is how they can make the leap from a studio practice to being qualified for public art commissions.
I know that many of you have made efforts to lower the threshold to entry by creating mentorships, opportunities for artists without commission experience, matching them with fabricators, and technical assistance for local artists. I will certainly tell artists to look for these opportunities to help them get a leg up.
I also want to include first-hand examples of artists who have gotten their first public art commission and how they did it. Can any of you think of artists who stand out in your memory who made this leap? If so, I will follow up with them and include their story in the book.
Thank you,
Lynn
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