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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 Panoramic Rendering of the Journey of Discovery , 2004
Mediums: Ceramic
Location: Downtown; Miller’s Landing 151 Freedom Park Road
Owner: City of Omaha
Series: Lewis & Clark Icon Sculpture Project
Additional Information: “A Panoramic Rendering of the Journey of Discovery is a six-piece Icon sculpture—one of nine Icons located in Nebraska and Iowa along the Missouri River. The sculptures feature artistic interpretations of the Corps of Discovery Expedition to explain the River’s story and existing culture of this area. The Icon sculpture is easily visible to visitors on the trail. The Icon form is concrete with a space designated for artist embellishment.
by Rod Kagan
Location: Downtown; 2200 Abbott, next to the Info Group Office Building
Owner: Owen Industires
Additional Information: The water moves from the top down through the angled U channel iron pieces.
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.
Mediums: Bronze
Location: Downtown; Adjacent to the World War II Monument and lake at Heartland of America Park, 8th & Douglas Streets
Owner: City of Omaha
Additional Information: The Heartland Airborne Memorial is a testimonial to the persistence, patience, tireless work and vision of Airborne veterans in our community who stayed the course in completing their mission and to the many benefactors who donated to the campaign.
Art is not Communication. It is Dialogue. , 2005
by Linda Miegs
Location: Downtown; SE corner of the Florence Mill 9102 N 30th Street
Owner: Sponsored by Kiwanis Club of Florence
Series: Bench Marks
Additional Information: This was part of the 2005-2006 Bench Marks project. The project was a collaboration of artists, writers, and organizations that support and encourage an active, healthy and involved community.
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.
