Port of San Diego Public Art Department Announces Call for Artists

The Best Western Yacht Harbor Hotel seeks an artist or artist team to create new, site-specific, original artwork(s) which may incorporate multi-sensory and eco-friendly water elements, for the newly renovated hotel. The hotel is located at 5005 N. Harbor Drive.

The process for artist selection is being administered by the Port of San Diego Public Art Department.

The estimated budget is $32,000 and the deadline for submissions is Friday, January 15, 2010, at 5 p.m. PST. For information regarding eligibility and complete details on submission requirements, please contact Christine Jones.

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An excellent video document of the Berlin Wall public art and its powerful commentaries.

Nice article from the Del Mar Times on Solana Beach artist Christie Beniston’s new installation acquired by the the San Diego Airport in their new Art Master Plan. Congratulation, Christie– this looks hot!

Christie Beniston’s new “Time Interwoven” installation at the San Diego Airport offers a visual metaphor for the act of travel. “Time Interwoven” was the first work acquired by the Airport Authority under its new Art Master Plan.

Beniston, a longtime Solana Beach artist, said she seeks connecting points for all of her projects. While researching her concept for this public art competition, she said she discovered similarities in the definitions for the words “weave” and “travel.”

“The definition for travel had a reference to going back and forth, so I started to think visually about what else goes back and forth,” Beniston said. “Then I looked at the definition for weaving, and it was similar to travel.”

Beniston applied her concept visually by depicting the world’s 24 time zones in a dazzling display of color, light, metal and glass now on view at San Diego Airport’s Commuter Terminal.

Christie Beniston at San Diego International Airport

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More thoughtful arts commentary from the LA Times bloggers:

When I was writing the other day about Peter Shelton’s sculptural ensemble for the new Los Angeles Police Department headquarters, I decided to stop by Parker Center, the old police HQ that sparked a huge firestorm over public art when it opened in 1955. (You can read about the earlier ruckus here.) The minute I got there I thought, “Distance lends enchantment to the view.”

Bernard “Tony” Rosenthal’s abstract bronze wall relief just to the right of the entrance doors is a minor sculpture by a minor artist, produced at a time when painting is where most of postwar Modern art’s adventurous action was in America. And at any rate, as I noted in my Shelton review, it wasn’t the relative quality of the art that caused the uproar back then — a dozen years would pass before another abstract sculpture would be commissioned for a downtown public space — an uproar that seems quaint when faced with Rosenthal’s sculpture today.

– Christopher Knight

Photos: Parker Center. Credit: Christopher Knight / Los Angeles Times

Related:

Public art review: Peter Shelton’s ‘’sixbeaststwomonkeys’

Sculptures at LAPD’s new home likened to ‘cow splat”

Peter Shelton’s whimsy, all in a row, for the L.A. police HQ

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LAPD’s public art has weathered storms

Interesting article with one local artist’s perspective on public art in San Diego.

The lesson, says artist Leila Van Weelden of Normal Heights, is “involvement in the community. The artist needs to be in touch with the community at large, not just the arts community, because the arts community isn’t solely who they are representing. You have to be in touch with who the people are in the neighborhood. And if the community is somewhat conservative, the artist has to acknowledge that. There was a lack of relationship among the artist, those funding her work, and the community as a whole.”

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