PUBLIC ART
CYNTHIA-REEVES has initiated public art projects in the US and abroad, placing large-scale works in the public domain for both permanent and temporary installations. PUBLIC ART (pdf)
For temporary public art programming, CYNTHIA-REEVES has collaborated with a number of municipalities, including New York City Parks Department, Hudson River Park Trust, The Union Square Association, The City of Boston, and the Kendall Square Association in Cambridge, among other cities and non-profit arts organizations throughout the US. The gallery has been responsible for over twenty projects, siting large scale works for one and two year-long installations.
CYNTHIA-REEVES permanent public art programming for companies developing large campuses and urban spaces. For these projects, we thoughtfully review the specific identifiers for the community: landmarks, the history that shapes its sense of identity, topographical / geographical references, and notable businesses and personalities that have shaped the community. Taking our cue from these reference points, we review innovative material selections, interpretive methodologies, scale considerations, and siting opportunities to inform the project’s creative guidelines.
We collaborate with urban planning teams, landscape architects and corporate clients to clarify the role of public art in a successful urban redesign. Applied thoughtfully to the urban landscape, public art reinforces one’s sense of place, reinvigorates an appreciation of one’s surroundings, and creates a dynamic sense of connectedness among neighbors, companies, and the community at large.
- Public Art as Identifier: significant sculptural moments to help pedestrians experience a sense of belonging and familiarity through the presence of artwork.
- Public Art as Way-Finding/Way-Moving: a series of thoughtfully integrated artworks assists pedestrians in moving through the urban-scape, as they are handed off from one art moment to the next.
- Public Art as Landscape: landform elements — integrating art-making into the landscape — creates a gradually changing art presence that responds to the urn of seasons, and maturation of the greenspace over time.
- Public Art as Recreation and Play: drawing on artists’ inspiration, the challenge is to find innovative ways of utilizing art installations as a field of play; and, to use artwork as an invitation to pause, relax and find respite. Often, these works are in conjunction with thoughtful landscape design.
- Public Art as Education: artwork can be introduced as a way of elucidating the systems that are the substrate of the urban-scape – water remediation, public transit, history, sense of place, informations source.