“Landmark” consists of a large grid of colorful panels 145 ft. high and 12 ft. wide. The panels are coated with porcelain enamel using a photographic imaging process, which accurately reproduced and enlarged a detailed series of 30” x 23” color drawings created by Robert Hudson. One Hawthorne tapped Valerie Wade, gallery director at Crown Point Press, its across-the-street neighbor, to assist in concept development for the public art. The entire process took about one year, with KVO Industries, based in Santa Rosa, California, fabricating each porcelain enamel panel and overseeing the installation.
As lovely as it is, I do feel it will always be overshadowed by the buildings own advertising.
For the last four decades, Robert Hudson has been known for his large-scale welded-steel and poly-chromed steel and bronze sculptures. The San Francisco Bay area artist has also produced a large body of paintings and drawings during his distinguished career. Hudson’s work is based in the assemblage sculpture and Funk movements in California during the late 1950s and 1960s He holds both an BFA and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Funk and Assemblage sculpture are sculptural techniques of organizing or composing into a unified whole a group of unrelated and often fragmentary or discarded objects.
I love it! The advertising looks to be a temporary banner so hopefully it will disappear!
I agree about the overshadowing…I had an uneasy feeling from the first time I saw the picture…and thought the building advertising was somehow tied to the art work.