White Tail Plaza: Hardscape Becomes Art

 

The weavings and unravelings of Glassman?EUR??,,????'???s design suggest both natural and man-made systems. Woodland Hills was once riparian grassland ?EUR??,,????'??+ the L.A. River originally ran through it before it was concreted and channeled away to make room for twentieth century development. This history and metamorphosis is memorialized in the work.
Image courtesy of Chun Y Lai

Imagine being able to sit comfortably in a sculpture and contemplate nature, or a bird?EUR??,,????'???s flight and know that you?EUR??,,????'???re part of the universal, ever-changing pattern of life and regeneration?EUR??,,????'??? or just read a book. Los Angeles sculptor Stephen Glassman?EUR??,,????'???s large-scale sculptural plaza, transforms the LNR Warner Center campus from a corporate complex to a meditative retreat. Completed in December 2008, White Tail Plaza will have its?EUR??,,????'??? official debut and artist reception on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 from 5:00 ?EUR??,,????'??? 8:00pm.

Stephen Glassman?EUR??,,????'???s Venice, California studio is engaged in the creation of large-scale permanent national and international public art works. He represents a new generation of public artists that, in addition to a studio and gallery history, have always created work on the street—art for art?EUR??,,????'???s sake in a social context. Pieces by Glassman due for completion in October, 2009 include the Soto Bridge project in Los Angeles, a 60-foot intelligent pneumatics piece, in collaboration with Didier/Hess, for the new San Jose, CA airport, a 25-foot sculpture in Seattle that gathers stormwater runoff from a fire station roof and grows grass and a 40-foot outdoor sculpture for the City of Calgary.