Sculpture
Inspired by the Golden Ratio, this 28′ w landmark functional sculpture creates an outdoor classroom and a community gathering site. The sculpture is a focal point of the STEM complex, serving as an icon for the College and embodying the search for knowledge and insight via higher education. The pursuit of beauty, of underlying order, lies at the core of intellectual inquiry.
Polyester resin and e-glass reinforcement as needed. P4000 urethane primer finish prep on convex surface 4,000 grit (final mirror finish by others)
Boathouse Pavilion is an assembly of all FRP monocoque structural panels supported by an array of steel columns. It is located at Gathering Place Park in Tulsa OK on the banks of the Arkansas River. The pavilion roof consists of 130 unique all FRP panels structurally joined to one another and supported by steel columns. The FRP surface area totals 20,000 ft2 of actual material, counting the inner and outer surface of the panels and all of the return flanges). A grid of columns supports them, and the typical span is about 20′.
The Anda Sculpture is a 25’ long by 17’ tall egg-shaped sculpture for a swimming pool. Guests can enter the structure by swimming underneath or by a drawbridge and sit on the teak benches inside to view the sky from the oculus.
Chicago-based artist Jessica Stockholder designed the entrance to the new UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital-San Francisco. It introduces visitors to bold shapes and colorful lights as they walk in. Jessica Stockholder's installation called Like Water if Pond as Lily includes six different elements; two outdoor sculptures, art glass panels, a frieze, a sculpture, and a ceiling pattern in the lobby.
The Red Rabbit is a 56-foot-long sculpture entitled Leap. It is installed in the baggage claim area of a new terminal at the Sacramento International Airport. It is the centerpiece of several contemporary art exhibits in the airport, commissioned by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission. Suspended by seven cables, it appears to be leaping through the atrium space into a vortical suitcase on the ground below.
The Paint Torch is a beautiful, innovative installation that protrudes towards Broad Street at a 60-degree angle. The tip of the brush and glob are translucent to accommodate LED systems embedded in them that glow when lit up at night.
Water Tree by Lawrence Argent, (Illumination electronics by Jen Lewyn Studios) is an FRP sculpture made of four repeating custom molded elements over a matching tube steel armature and derived from a 3D computer model provided by the artist.
Inhale Exhale is an FRP and steel sculpture fabricated by milling one of its segments on our five-axis CNC router using urethane foam. A mold was produced from this pattern, and multiple segments were fabricated to complete 1/3 of the circumference of this three-sided sculpture. Next, the assembly was fastened to the structural steel armature, and another mold of the entire length was taken. Finally, the other 2/3’s of the sculpture was fabricated into this mold. These were then assembled onto the steel frame, faired, and finished with linear polyurethane automotive-grade coating.
The Schiara Lantern (1 of an edition of 14) is made of clear unsaturated polyester resin and E-Glass- reinforced sculpture, with opaque aperture elements of integrally molded thin-section polymer concrete and FRP reinforcement. Pattern milled of medium-density urethane foam on a Motionmaster 5-axis CNC gantry. Rigid reusable female FRP molds.
To construct The River Wall, K&A fabricated panels made of fiberglass. The panels are anchored to a concrete wall via panel joints and special fabrication, construction, and installation techniques to build this artwork.
Cowboys and Indians are incredible translucent FRP sculptures made from rigid female FRP molds. The sculptures are made of clear unsaturated polyester resin and E-Glass reinforcement for strength! They were then covered in a gel coat, a second urethane coating, and a clear topcoat.
The Ghost Trolley is a translucent FRP sculpture utilizing clear unsaturated polyester laminating resin and E-Glass reinforcement. The sculpture was created by full-scale milling patterns from EPS foam on our large format CNC gantry. Next, the foam was protected, and female FRP molds were made into which the translucent FRP was laminated, cured, and removed. Finally, the mirror image was created and bonded to the other side to form a digitally compressed or distorted "ghost" of Aurora, Colorado's long-abandoned original town trolley.
Helioscope by architect Evan Douglass, is a one-piece FRP sculpture fabricated in a 45-piece mold. Made from unsaturated polyester resin and glass fiber reinforcement, the sculpture is monocoque with no internal secondary structure and is engineered to fasten to a plywood template secured to the ceiling through minimally visible connections.
Digital data was used to create Illumination’s CNC-mill female EPS molds, making several sculpture segments. The interior and exterior FRP skins of these segments were joined with bulkheads. Assembly was by incorporating a post-tensioned assembly system. The surface finish was by applying Italian veneer plaster, or “marmorino.
This fascinating Blue Bear sculpture is a digitally scanned and manipulated maquette created by Lawrence Argent. A mold was generated from computer data using CNC machines to form FRP panels from foam molds, which were then assembled into a full-size sculpture with a partial steel armature and assembly joints for support before being coated with a blue polymer concrete finish.
Skyspace is made with unsaturated polyester resin and E-glass fiber reinforced panels fabricated using vacuum infusion and double thickness of 3/4” thick plywood core to create walls, roof, and ceiling oculus. The finish is post applied polymer concrete, sandblasted after cure. The walls act as a monocoque structure. Interior space accommodates seating and mechanical equipment. The piece is engineered to be supported by stainless steel columns incorporated into the swimming pool design.
From the artist’s concept model, Floating Peel’s geometry was captured by a laser scanner, foam patterns fabricated in full-scale and female FRP molds made of the tops and bottoms of each Peel and the remaining portion of the fruit. Due to the extremely small ground contact point, the laminate is carbon fiber in vinyl ester resin. Fabrication utilized a unique interleafing of thin ribbons of ¼-inch-thick by 1-inch-wide 5-pound per cubic foot PVC foam core. As a result, the laminate is nearly solid carbon fiber at the bottom, with the carbon gradually being replaced by foam slivers. The top leaves are approximately 1.5mm (.060 inches) thick with solid foam between skins.
Cupid's Span bow elements are vinylester resin and oriented strand E-Glass fabric reinforcement over PVC core. Composite skins are thermally isolated and bonded to the structural steel armature, and the arrow shaft is extruded type 304 stainless steel. Feathers are E-Glass reinforcement in unsaturated polyester resin with base gelcoat and automotive urethane topcoat. The sculpture was commissioned by Donald Fisher of The Gap for inclusion in Rincon Park, directly across from the new Gap headquarters building in San Francisco.
The Balzac Petanque FRP sculpture is made from female FRP molds created by digitally scanning artist's models, enlarging, and CNC milling foam patterns. This piece is comprised of unsaturated polyester laminating resin under an integrally molded gel coat that has been covered with a 2-part automotive urethane clear overcoat on top. The sculpture has invisible connections made of stainless steel and FRP.
The Dropped Cone piece was commissioned by Neumarkt Galerie and is in Cologne, where it has been installed since 2001. The pair placed the work on the top of the shopping mall due to the congestion of the surrounding streets. The cone is turned upside down and is reminiscent of the same motif appearing in front of ice cream parlors, typical for Cologne. They chose the cone form because of the four letters of the term that can also be found in the city's name and the artists' articulation of consumerism.
Flying Pins is one of 15 large scale projects fabricated by K&A for the artists’ Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The pins seem to fly through the air but employ an innovative steel structure with slip-together invisible connections.
The Inverted Collar and Tie, located in the heart of Germany's financial district on Platz der Republik (Square Of The Republic), is a highly imaginative artwork created with steel, FRP, and painted with polyester gelcoat.
The original Houseball, made for the performance Il Corso del Coltello, was based on the idea that one could gather all one's possessions in a large cloth and tie them up in the form of a ball that would roll -- thereby making any other transportation unnecessary -- to its next destination.
