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Garden Stories
Lars Stanley writes “In the garden, we bear delighted witness to life cycles. From seed to sprout, from blossom to fruit and again to seed, the vegetables we thought we knew from brightly lit grocery bins reveal their complexity: the spike of an okra pod, the delicate bloom of a squash plant, the spiraling geometry of …
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Untitled (yellow bench)
This sculpture by Anthony Magar is yellow and white and looks like an abstract bench shape
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Current³
CURRENT 3 by Virginia Folkestad is a site-specific, interactive light installation, which is part of a public/private collaboration between Denver Office of Cultural Affairs and LoDo Neighborhood Asssociation called LoDo Lights, created to celebrate and honor Denver’s 150th birthday. Manny’s Bridge, site of CURRENT 3, the first LoDo Lights installation, was rebuilt twice as a railroad …
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Chorus
This installation is composed of 19 earthcast vessels on their sides, which are adjacent to circulation nodes between the bridges at East 26th Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard. These vessels demonstrate the delicate balance between human interaction and nature. Each of the five nodes features a different grouping of vessels in arrangements that relate to …
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We the People
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Pathways
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Reconciliation Bench
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Cloudbreak
The east wall of the jury assembly room is a colored glass image of light bursting from behind dramatic storm clouds seen through a layer of over 13,500 glass tubes that “push” like a cloud through the metal frame of the wall in low relief. Each tube catches the bits of color of the pixelated …
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Light Chamber
New York-based artist Dennis Oppenheim created a large-scale sculptural installation for the north end of the DaleTooleyPlaza, at the terminus of Tremont and Colfax. The sculpture’s title, Light Chamber, comes from two sources: the judge’s chambers and light. Oppenheim was inspired by the people who work in the courts and his concept was to create …
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Denver Convergence
Convergence is a diaphanous funnel-shaped steel sculpture composed of 1,344 laser-cut human profiles. There are twelve jurors on a typical jury, and the silhouettes are multiples of twelve Denver citizens representing a variety of ages and ethnicities. Viewed from the ground floor entry looking up, one is immersed in an optical vortex as the ascending …