Chase Center
500 Terry A Francois Boulevard
Adam Eli Fiebelman is a San Francisco based artist who is known best for his stencil and cut paper-based works. His childhood in Albuquerque, New Mexico was spent examining and interacting with the surfaces of the city through making graffiti art. His awareness of the structures we use every day but often overlook has become the subject of his current work: the buildings, doorways, fenced trees, discarded buses and chipped alley walls that fill our cities and map our lives. Through an intricate process of hand-cut stencils and enamel painting, he explores the relationship between our perceptions of the temporary and the eternal, uncovering the stories we have transcribed on an urban landscape filled with utilitarian objects. You can find more about Fiebelman on his website.
The sign attached to this piece reads: Pathways traces the movement and beauty of the basketball as it travels, second by second, from the inbounding to the all-important basket. Twelve classic Warriors plays were mapped and meticulously drawn first onto paper, then hand cut and digitally traced and die-cut cast from aluminum. Each circle represents the path of the basketball as it moves through the play, with spacing in proportion with the speed and trajectory of the ball. The use of color-shifting paint creates movement, and the multiple layers of the metal creates depth.
The players and the games were:
Wilt Chamberlain – 81st Point, NBA Record 100 Point Game – 1962
Rick Barry – Fadeaway Jumper, 38 Point Game – NBA Finals, 1975
Mitch Richmond – Two-Hand Baseline and One Dunk – 1990
Jason Richardson – Winning Windmill Dunk – Dunk Contest 2002
Stephen Curry – 3/4 Court Halftime Buzzer Beater – Playoffs 2015
Nate Thurmond – Rebound, Pass, Skyhook 1971
Eric “Sleepy” Floyd – Switch Hand Lay-in 51 Pont Game – Playoffs 1987
Chris Mullin – 3 Pointer, 41 Point Game Playoffs 1991
Šarūnas Marčiulionis– Rebound Full-Court Push – Eurostep Finish, 1993
Baron Davis – Posterizes Andrei Kirilenko Playoffs – 2007
Klay Thompson 14th 3-pointer, NBA Record for 3-pointers in a game 2018
