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....that Hourglass Figure.... , 2010
by Bob Trempe
Mediums: Mural, Mixed Media
Location: Downtown; Grain Silo 3417 Vinton Street Omaha, N
Owner: Emerging Terrain
Series: Stored Potential
Additional Information: Perhaps the most simply articulated submission of all, ‘………that Hourglass Figure’ by Bob Trempe, Professor of Architecture at Temple University, was a jury favorite both for its 2D manipulation of a 3D surface, and the method by which he achieves the illusion. Manipulating a convex concrete silo with only an exterior surface is likely a frustrating constraint for an architect. But with a series of simple black dots, Trempe’s submission virtually modifies the geometrical quality of one silo through the draping of a simple gradient pattern. This pattern, designed in the shape of an hourglass, perceptually “tapers” the middle of the silo inward through the patterned shadow image. The pattern of dots creates the shaded quality one would find on a tapered, cylindrical surface. Bob Trempe’s work as an architect and educator focuses on new methods of information visualization and how resultant emergent information can serve as instruction for architectural production. Thought of as the study of process itself, Bob’s works are typically articulated through repetitious systems, exploiting time-based qualities to notate, visualize, and analyze changes-in-state.
by Tinca Joyner
Mediums: Mural, Mixed Media
Location: Downtown; Grain Silo 3417 Vinton Street
Owner: Emerging Terrain
Series: Stored Potential
Additional Information: A neighbor of the towering grain elevator, 10-year old Tinca Joyner found inspiration for her submission from the plants she cultivates in her own backyard. Both a productive farmer and artist, Tinca has lived in Omaha for all of her 10-year life and has been making art and planting seeds for most of it. The Stored Potential jury found the intersection of these two things especially noteworthy in Joyner’s use of reds and oranges to depict the juicy fruit (or is it a vegetable?) in a style representative of Art Nouveau, especially in its tenet of applying artistic design to everyday utilitarian objects, in order to make beautiful things available to everyone. Although Tinca intended for the tomatoes in her drawing to be oriented to the bottom, as a tomato plant often looks like when supporting large bunches of fruit from a plant that commonly out-produces the needs of the grower, Tinca says the guy at Kinkos accidentally scanned her drawing with the tomatoes to the top. Perhaps he knew that placing the bunch of tomatoes at the top of the elevator would maximize their exposure.
A Molloscock's Inversion of Sky and Sea , 2010
Location: Mid-Town; 6053 Binney Street west side of the Benson Professional Building
Owner: The Professional Building
Series: Benson Mural Project
Additional Information: In 2009, seven people gathered with the common purpose of transforming a portion of Benson’s environment through creative neighborhood projects. After much brainstorming they settled on a public art venture in the form of a mural project. The seven represented Leadership Omaha Class 31, itself a project of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce. The group contacted Benson High School and 12 artists submitted their ideas.
by Geoff DeOld; Emily Andersen
Mediums: Mural, Mixed Media
Location: Downtown; Grain Silo 3417 Vinton Street Omaha. NE
Owner: Emerging Terrain
Series: Stored Potential
Additional Information: ‘Aerial Production’, by DeOld Andersen Architecture, a partnership between Nebraska natives Emily Andersen and Geoff DeOld, depicts the transformation of the Midwest landscape at the city edge from farmstead to suburban and exurban development. Focusing on a swath of land at the edge of Omaha two miles long by a half mile wide, three different stages of land use are captured simultaneously; productive farmland, former farmland in the process of being re-formed into suburban tract development, and a completed and occupied residential development. This abstracted representation of a literal condition unifies the fits and starts by which land development occurs through a lens of production – land that once produced agricultural crops now produces homes and the infrastructures that support them.
by Alyssa Denny
Location: Mid-Town; Adventure in Art, 6001 Maple Street,
Owner: Adventure in Art
Additional Information: Kristi Pederson, owner of Adventure in Art, has always felt that troubled kids had a lot to say. They just sometime couldn't express themselves. With this in mind, she approached the local Drug Court and was allowed to do a presentation to all of the kids currently in the program. She held a contest and the winning design is what you see on the side of the building at my business. Almost all of the kids in Drug Court participated; from prep work to the actual painting of the mural and to the clean up stages as well. Alyssa Denny was the artist with the winning design.
Backyard Art Show Murals , unknown
by Stephen Walsh; Matt Babe; Jayme Wyble; Weston Thomson; Walker Greene; John Anderson; Brad Watkins
Location: Downtown; 1258 South 13th Street
Owner: Kent Bellows Studio and Foundation
Series: Kent Bellows Studio Murals
Additional Information: With a dynamic vision for Omaha’s future and a unique and versatile curriculum model, The Kent Bellows Studio & Center for Visual Arts is proud to encourage the development of inspired, engaged citizens dedicated to their community. At Kent Bellows, high school students of all backgrounds take classroom techniques to the next level. They develop their own intensive course of study, setting personal goals and overcoming creative obstacles. While working hands-on up to 20 hours a month with the finest professional artists in the metro, our students build critical thinking and problem-solving skills, tenacity, and a lifelong drive for innovation. InCommon held a backyard art show featuring live urban art. KBS artists painted InCommon's building, a van, ac unit, and a fence. The mentors were Weston Thomson, Steve Walsh and Gerard Pefung and Young Artists included in this project were Jayme Wyble, Matt Babe, Walker Greene, John Anderson and Brad Watkins.
Mediums: Mural, Mixed Media
Location: Downtown; Grain Silo 3417 Vinton Street Omaha, NE
Owner: Emerging Terrain
Series: Stored Potential
Additional Information: M. Brady Clark’s image is striking, simple, and speaks volumes about the Midwest. Although it isn’t the ‘beef’ Nebraska is most identified with, nor is it condoned by vegetarian friends, it is nonetheless symbolic and representative of the place and certainly the landscape. M. Brady’s ‘Bacon’ is less about specific species of animal, but more about place, consumption, and culture. According to M. Brady, “My work is simply to use my God-given gift to make things better and more beautiful.” Representing Bacon at nearly 80′ tall, on a grain elevator, might be the perfect combination of literal (grain transfer to animal protein) combined with scale to create abstract beauty.
by Gerard Pefung; Latasha Hill; Erin Robins; Drew Shifter
Location: Mid-Town; Keystone Trail at 67th and Mercy
Owner: Kent Bellows Studio
Series: Kent Bellows Studio Murals
Additional Information: With a dynamic vision for Omaha’s future and a unique and versatile curriculum model, The Kent Bellows Studio & Center for Visual Arts is proud to encourage the development of inspired, engaged citizens dedicated to their community. At Kent Bellows, high school students of all backgrounds take classroom techniques to the next level. They develop their own intensive course of study, setting personal goals and overcoming creative obstacles. While working hands-on up to 20 hours a month with the finest professional artists in the metro, our students build critical thinking and problem-solving skills, tenacity, and a lifelong drive for innovation. The mentor on this piece was Gerard Pefung and the Young Artists were Latasha Hill, Erin Robins, and Drew Shifter.
by Stephen Walsh; Jessica Bequette; Julie Shadlow
Mediums: Mural, Acrylic, Aerosol
Location: Downtown; 1915 Leavenworth - west wall
Owner: Kent Bellows Foundation
Series: Kent Bellows Studio Murals
Additional Information: With a dynamic vision for Omaha’s future and a unique and versatile curriculum model, The Kent Bellows Studio & Center for Visual Arts is proud to encourage the development of inspired, engaged citizens dedicated to their community. At Kent Bellows, high school students of all backgrounds take classroom techniques to the next level. They develop their own intensive course of study, setting personal goals and overcoming creative obstacles. While working hands-on up to 20 hours a month with the finest professional artists in the metro, our students build critical thinking and problem-solving skills, tenacity, and a lifelong drive for innovation. Steve Walsh was the mentor on this project and the Young Artists involved were Jessica Bequette and Julie Shadlow.