Archives: Projects

This artwork reflects the region’s history with textiles and cargo shipping. Steel spheres, arranged in a knot-like form, hang from tall poles reminiscent of the cargo masts once found at the River Trail site. The reflective spheres capture both the landscape and the viewer’s image, creating an engaging experience.

A portrait of the heavens on a catenary dome of fabric, this work depicts the sky above the antipode (location on the opposite side of the globe) of Minneapolis. The work is located atop a seven story glass tower at where it functions as an urban-scaled mirror-ball, reflecting light by way of more than 500,000 “stars” made of mirror polished aluminum. To embroider and sew it required the dexterity and skill of a couturier.

This site-specific commission was an open-ended playscape. It explored non-conventional uses of materials, experimenting with “the pour” technique. Tinted urethane foam was layered to create vibrant, monumental structures with smooth, colorful interiors and textured exteriors, balancing control and spontaneity.

Winner of the American Architecture Award in 2024

For this interdisciplinary artist team, olive trees represent friendship, reconciliation, healing, and peace. As can be said of each patient of the Olive View Restorative Care Village, Ball-Nogues Studio states that each tree is unique and will blossom when it is ready.

The image of the tree bark was created by means of a digital algorithm designed by the artists for the Olive View community. This digital image was translated into fused glass panels in collaboration with Judson Studios, the oldest family-run stained-glass maker in the United States.

Southern live oaks are icons of the American South. Our aim was to depict the trees as they might
appear lining an idyllic street in New
Orleans. The panoramic format of the work spans across a children’s play space, transforming a banal
fence into a two-sided mural. We borrowed
techniques from the classic Lite Brite toy to construct the project. Functioning like the colored pegs
of the toy, thousands of transparent acrylic squares, each the size of a playing card, form a pointillist
image of the trees. The squares are like little pieces of stained glass that refract the sun and project
colored light onto the fence. While Shady Lane honors the storybook history of New Orleans, the
shimmering squares catch the attention of kids that are drawn to a video game aesthetic.

Stainless steel ball-chain, enamel paint
“Suspension” is a name I’ve given to a series of atmospheric installation that my team and I make with
thousands of thin, painted chains that we hang in precise proximity to one other. When I visit Utah, my
eyes constantly comb the landscape; I felt compelled to marry some of that mesmerizing landscape to a
Suspension at Davis Tech. I began Above the Ploughman’s Highest Line with an aerial image of the shore
of the Great Salt Lake which I then abstracted to become a stack of horizontal bands that permeate the
Suspension.

Hovering in the Commercial Bay Tower entrance, this intricate work resembles fluid dynamics and changes with viewer’s movement. It can’t be fully seen from a single vantage point; it appears as a solid disk from below and as delicate droplets or lighting effects from the exterior, encouraging exploration.

Inspired by landscape painting by American Regionalists, I mapped a composition of colors from an imaginary Kansas prairie onto over 20,000 segments of painted stainless-steel ball-chain. The work fills the space with color and shape, but also invites views of the courthouse and landscape beyond.

This work celebrates the evolution of Los Angeles’s transit systems. Featuring colored light that shifts with sunlight and perspective, it depicts historic and contemporary transit with over thirty thousand acrylic chips. The artwork reflects the dynamic nature of public transit, anchoring the building in the Arts District and connecting it to the community.

By way of thousands of segments of chain precisely arranged in a single gesture that cuts through the entry hall, this work is a monumental art installation suggestive of a bream of brightly colored light. It actively undulates in the wind while its colors transform with changing lighting conditions and the movement of the viewer.