PHOENIX SKY TRAIN STATION PUBLIC ART
OPEN APRIL 8, 2013
NEWS
9 April 2013
“Sky Train at Sky Harbor Airport Makes Its Long-Awaited Debut”
AZ Central
1 March 2013
“PHX Sky Train Glides into Sky Harbor and Airport History”
Airport Improvement
16 November 2012
“Photo Tour of Phoenix Sky Train Station”
Phoenix Business Journal
14 November 2012
“Sneak Peek at Phoenix Sky Train Station”
Airports International
5 April 2012
“Phoenix Sky Harbor’s Planned Amenities to Increase Comfort, Convenience”
Airport Magazine
OPEN APRIL 8, 2013
NEWS
9 April 2013
“Sky Train at Sky Harbor Airport Makes Its Long-Awaited Debut”
AZ Central
1 March 2013
“PHX Sky Train Glides into Sky Harbor and Airport History”
Airport Improvement
16 November 2012
“Photo Tour of Phoenix Sky Train Station”
Phoenix Business Journal
14 November 2012
“Sneak Peek at Phoenix Sky Train Station”
Airports International
5 April 2012
“Phoenix Sky Harbor’s Planned Amenities to Increase Comfort, Convenience”
Airport Magazine
Learning Music Music Part I (Learning Music) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
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Fausto Fernandez
Tailplane Patterns
Tailplane Patterns
2013
440 x 40’ terrazzo floor
Fabricator: Advance Terrazzo
440 x 40’ terrazzo floor
Fabricator: Advance Terrazzo
44th Street
Sky Train Station
Phoenix Arizona
Phoenix
Mayor Greg Stanton and Aviation Director Danny Murphy are proud to announce
that the PHX Sky Train™ is open to the public April 8 2013.
The PHX Sky
Train features six major works of public art by five artist and artist
teams. The artists worked closely for five years with the project design
and construction team of architects HOK, engineers Gannett Fleming, and
the Hensel Phelps Construction Company. The art filling the public
spaces of PHX Sky Train was made by artist working in teams with
hundreds of skilled thinkers, builders and installers.
Painter Fausto Fernandez tapped his love of layered colors and mechanical shapes to design a floor inspired by the outline of an airplane’s horizontal stabilizer, known as a tailplane. Fernandez used ten colors to create the platform’s rhythmic geometric patterns and sweeping bands. He heightened the floor’s reflective qualities by adding aggregates of recycled, crushed glass and mirror. Public Art project was commissioned by the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture Public Art Program with Aviation percent for art funds.
Painter Fausto Fernandez tapped his love of layered colors and mechanical shapes to design a floor inspired by the outline of an airplane’s horizontal stabilizer, known as a tailplane. Fernandez used ten colors to create the platform’s rhythmic geometric patterns and sweeping bands. He heightened the floor’s reflective qualities by adding aggregates of recycled, crushed glass and mirror. Public Art project was commissioned by the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture Public Art Program with Aviation percent for art funds.
The Sky Train Station floor design is a repetitive
composition of horizontal stabilizers from aircrafts. These stabilizers, also
known as “Tailplanes,” are a small lifting surface located on the tail and
serve three purposes: equilibrium, stability and control.
The outlines of the stabilizers in the design are repetitive shapes that keep a consistency and maintain symmetry as they flow into the terminal and create an illusion of linear perspective. The architecture and the windows framing the floor called for a design that would reflect the aesthetic of the barrel vault and its repetitive beams framing the structure. Built in terrazzo, the floor contains aggregates of glass and mirror that reflect light from the exterior windows. The floor consists of ten colors, black being the only color with aggregates of mirror connecting the design in one organic linear shape from one end to the other. The black line interweaves between the shapes providing a variation with the symmetry.
The outlines of the stabilizers in the design are repetitive shapes that keep a consistency and maintain symmetry as they flow into the terminal and create an illusion of linear perspective. The architecture and the windows framing the floor called for a design that would reflect the aesthetic of the barrel vault and its repetitive beams framing the structure. Built in terrazzo, the floor contains aggregates of glass and mirror that reflect light from the exterior windows. The floor consists of ten colors, black being the only color with aggregates of mirror connecting the design in one organic linear shape from one end to the other. The black line interweaves between the shapes providing a variation with the symmetry.
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Radio interview related to Phx Sky Train Station
Sky Train Animation
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Flowing Overlapping Gesture, 2010
Temporary installation in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Artist Fausto FernandezThree-dimensional painting
Site-specific artwork for Scottsdale Waterfront
Commissioned by Scottsdale Public Art
Technical design by Shane Henson, Tempe
Foam cutting by All Dimensions Foam, Mesa
Project generously supported in part by Erik Reinhard
and All Dimensions Foam, Rusty James II and Mesa Plumbing
Fausto Fernandez, Short documentary of "Flowing overlapping gesture, 2010"
Please visit Scottsdale Public Art for more information on all Public Art project.
link to website HERE
Photograph by Marilyn Szabo #4-11. Available 20x24
Photograph by Marilyn Szabo #6-11. Available 20x24
