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Maria Mosina and Igor Vassine
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Ascent
Until 2003, Denver’s various City departments were spread around the City at various locations. This meant doing business with the City was a multi-stop experience. With this in mind the City selected a location for the new Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building adjacent to Civic Center Park. The park was chosen for its …
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Christopher Columbus
This bronze statue depicts a stylistic human form extending arms and legs in four directions – North, South, East and West. The statue is encircled by three spherical stainless steel rings representing the planet earth. Donated by Alfred P. Adamo and Anna Adamo in 1970.
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Community Nature Dance
This artwork was created in partnership with Trust for Public Land. Check out the video to see 3D view. Artist’s Statement: “Community Nature Dance” highlights the butterfly to both accent the pollinator gardens found on-site and to respect what the butterfly symbolizes around the world; endurance, change hope, and life. Around the waist of the …
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Leaf
In celebration of the art and science collections housed within the Freyer-Newman Center at the Denver Botanic Gardens, this sculpture blends the beauty of nature with the rigor of scientific inquiry. Each of its 251 cells contain a silhouette of a Colorado native plant specimen held by Denver Botanic Gardens’ Kathryn Kalmbach Herbarium. Included is …
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Infinite Span
Suspended by stainless steel cables, a mirror-polished stainless steel diamond floats over the plaza in Grant Frontier Park. Infinite Span is symbolic of the infinite nature of time and the fleeting present moment. “If time is infinite, past and future, then the present moment itself becomes infinitely rare. That we are here, witnessing this moment …
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Rondure
“Rondure” by Nikki Pike (Denver, CO) consists of a 7’5″ spherical sculpture cast in bronze with a texture taken from tree bark. The sculpture contains a motion-activated sound component of wildlife found in Colorado. Pike collaborated with bARTer Collective, a collective of artists, educators and service workers, to offer outreach opportunities to create a community …
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Connecting Points: Alluvial
The Alluvial artwork consists of two benches composed to mirror the bedding planes of adjacent rocks and are carved from Lyons Red Sandstone. Seats were carved in to the tops to provide a smooth seating surface. These benches are located at the base of the Red Rocks Funicular Trail.
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Connecting Points: Deep Time
This art bench highlights the great unconformity and adds a third in the form of masonry that mimics the great work done by the Civilian Conservation Corps crews during the construction of the amphitheater. A large Precambrian boulder transitions into fountain formation stone, but in between those two formations, a recess of honed black granite …
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Connecting Points: Strata
Strata is sited at the geologic overlook and leverages the interpretive information at that site by adding the additional consideration of current ecology. This piece is made up of layered stone that mimics the stack of ancient layering and uplifting that occurred during the land’s epic history. Carved into the stacked strata of centuries is a …