Description:  At the center of an open courtyard, Calvin Abe's Untitled fountain emerges from the ground in the form of a smooth silver disk. Water carefully flows over the round edges of the silver saucer into the surrounding pool bordered by a low brick wall. The spherical shape of the modern fountain design reflects the geometrical landscape of the nearby commercial building.

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Description:  Sculptures of laser-cut steel fig leaves with porcelain enamel finish and changeable lightboxes. Along Pacific Alley oversized fig leaves climb the rear exterior walls of the Armory Center for the Arts and the nearby Marriot Hotel. These laser-cut, steel fig leaves reference the rich vines covering other local buildings and the Mission days of Pasadena when figs and other fruit were introduced to the area. These sculptures incorporate multiple aspects of art history with images representing current exhibitions and contemporary cultural events as well as scenes celebrating the artwork and cultural activities from historical Pasadena. The artist presents these artworks in two leaf forms: either porcelain enamel on metal disks or lightbox illuminated changeable photographic transparencies. A third leaf design contains the legend for all of the displayed artwork, including artist names and titles.
Dimensions: 4'-5' in length
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Description:  Artist team Jane MacDonald Adrian and Antje Hammer collaborated to design this play environment that explores elements of the natural Pasadena landscape and the city's history. The artists' goal was to capture children's imaginations through the textures, shapes and colors that appear throughout the landscaped play area which echoes the shape of Pasadena's Arroyo Seco. Central Park Play Environment is composed of four main elements, each representing a different aspect of Pasadena: the play equipment, a maze-like path, Rose Bowl inspired sand area, and the ceramic tile art benches. A bright red fire engine, a piece of play equipment, reflects the fire station across the street. Colorful geometric shapes decorate the maze representing different elements of the environment, such as the Earth, sky and water. Each with its own theme, the ceramic tiles on the serpentine benches offer a narrative about Pasadena through representation of the past, the sciences, the arts, nature and places in the city. These tiles, along with the symbols incorporated into the play environment, serve an educational purpose to park visitors.
Dimensions: 30' diameter
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Description:  "Birds in Flight". Abstract of flock of brids in flight
Dimensions: 10' H x 20' W
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Description:  "Stellar Mapping II" was a sculputral interpretation of a fantasty lab researching supernovae. A series of 30 sculptural objects intended to evolke various earth elements were placed under scientific glass domes. Their placement pattern was related to star mapping, joining earth and sky.
Dimensions: 33' total in diameter x 18"
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Description:  This colorful mural includes imagery which underscores the importance of children participating in the arts, reading, sports, science and good nutrition. It was funded through the Neighborhood Enhancement Mural Program.

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Description:  Michael Amescua's work takes the form of five gates and two transoms. The sturdy hand cut gates are light and airy with their graceful designs, which signify the flora and fauna of the region and the "romantic Mediterranean" feeling of the project. These gates pay homage to Pasadena's location and history reflecting the artist's inspiration derived from the arts and crafts movement. Amescua aimed for dramatic harmony when crafting the guardrails, gates and signage for Paseo Colorado, which gives the project its romantic feel.

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Description:  IRON TRANSOMS
Dimensions: 9' x 4 1/2"
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Description:  Constructed of 3/8" flame-cut steel, the gates are sturdy, yet light and airy due to the graceful designs, which derive from flora and fauna of the region and the "romantic Mediterranean" feeling of the project
Dimensions: 13' x 13'
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Description:  Constructed of 3/8" flame-cut steel, the gates are sturdy, yet light and airy due to the graceful designs, which derive from flora and fauna of the region and the "romantic Mediterranean" feeling of the project
Dimensions: 12' x 12' 6"
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Description:  Constructed of 3/8" flame-cut steel, the gates are sturdy, yet light and airy due to the graceful designs, which derive from flora and fauna of the region and the "romantic Mediterranean" feeling of the project
Dimensions: 9' 6" x 13'
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Description:  STAIR WAY FROM RESIDENTIAL TERRACE TO FOUNTAIN COURT
Dimensions: 3' x 11' and 6' x 10'
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Description:  TRANSOM
Dimensions: 5' x 3'
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Description:  Cut metal panels flank the entrance to Allen Avenue MTA station. Imagery depicts natural scenes of streams, trees, sun, moon, hikers.

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Description:  "Kaloseidos" is a 12' x 14' tile collage of vibrant red and orange hues. The artist arranged 3,000 handmade, glazed ceramic tiles in a colorful geometric abstraction. A variety of shiny, lustrious and matte tile surfaces give the circle, square and triangle elements a visual dynamic within the collage.
Dimensions: 12' H x 14' W
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Description:  A westward glance towards Raymond Avenue from Memorial Park offers a view of a rising terra cotta hued building façade decorated with tile relief. Two columns of diamond shaped tiles direct the viewer's gaze up toward a central circular ceramic tile element. The diamond and star arrangement of blue and green tiles contributes to the celestial theme suggested by the project's title while referencing the influence of early California tile artist Ernest Batchelder.

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Description:  Four canvases and 96 steel plates. Oil on canvas and silkscreen on steel.
Dimensions: 7' by 10'
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Description:  Deceitfully titled, Tile Fireplace appears as a water fountain set into a stucco wall accented with antique tiles and surrounded by a series of intricate tile wall murals. A composition of subtle earth tones, the tiles comprising the main fountain element were gathered and pieced together from the remains of a demolished home donated to the Plaza Las Fuentes by the Pasadena Heritage Society. The combination of antique fountain façade and modern tile murals depicting larger-than-life roses on colorfully abstract backgrounds captures the personality of Pasadena. Rose motifs and the central fountain reference the history of a culturally diverse and artistically inspired city presented in the abstract network of decorated tiles.
Dimensions: 9' H x 12' W x 2' D
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Description:  A thirsty park visitor can find refreshment at one of four water fountains located throughout Pasadena's Memorial Park. The fountains feature soft yellow square tiles decorated with a green, blue and brown rosette design. Smaller, solid color tiles in blue, lavender and green create a border along the top and bottom edges of the brick fountains. The tile work adorning the sides of the fountains' base represents the creative talent of tile artist, Ernest A. Batchelder. A leading designer of the American Arts and Crafts movement, Batchelder settled in Pasadena where he founded his own tile making company. Two Batchelder tile fountains, dedicated in 1932 by the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War to American War Mothers

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Description:  Sculpture of concrete and steel - one of several artworks at Art Center in the sculpture garden and other outdoor locations. Artwork by the following artists: Michael Todd, Michel Gerard, Robert Lobe, Gifford Myers, Charles Arnoldi, Richard Beckman, Karen Carson, Jill Giegrich, Keith Haring, Michael Heizer, and Norihiko Minoda. Artwork was on loan to Art Center and has since been removed.
Dimensions: 50" x 34 1/2" x 208"
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Description:  abstract surrealist style mural is derived from a mixed media painting by Vahe Bedrosian created in 2007
Dimensions: 27' 8" wide x 40' high
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Description:  Pua'I wai, one of two sculptural designs by Billy Al Bengston appears within the interior courtyard of the Holly Street Village Apartments. This fountain acts as a weathervane, with whirligig wind direction locator and sun dial. The rising dancing figure adorning the top of the sculpture adds a colorful, whimsical element to the courtyard where it is surrounded by a vibrant blue tile base.

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Description:  Artist, Billy Al Bengston designed Pua o ka moku as an appealing and inviting porte-cochere entrance to the Holly Street Village Apartments. These two striking sculptures rise into the air, overarching the entrance to the plaza connecting the two sides of the apartment complex. The distinctive presence of the flower design reminds visitors and residents alike of the natural landscape of the nearby park environment.
Dimensions: 16'
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Description:  Topiaries was inspired by a quote from James Shirley Hibberd's 1884 The Amateurs Flower Garden which states, that "…the natural form of a tree is the most beautiful possible for that tree, but it may happen that we do not want the most beautiful form, but one of our own designing, and expressive of our ingenuity." Representing man's intervention in nature, the colorful sculpture and its placement in an urban setting symbolize the human drive to influence nature. The Pasadena siting of Topiaries inspired the transformation of a formerly unused parcel of land into a beautiful and self-sustaining rain garden.
Dimensions: 9'Hx27"D at widest pt, 30" square base
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Description:  Mural consists of a multi-colored man, hawks, a light bulb, geometric shapes, a satellite, outer space, multi-colored light beams, arrows, the earth, Pasadena City Hall, a local bridge, a stylized camera, machine bluepritns, flowers, stylized vines and clouds, a flying car, windmill, wind turbine, stylized sun, tree, molecular structures, stylized gene helix and a man looking through a magnifying glass
Dimensions: 250' long x 20' high
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Description:  Venetian glass mosaic tile medallion. Located in lobby floor.

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Description:  "Water Forms 1991". Kinetic Fountain commissioned in celebration of Caltech's centennial year.
Dimensions: 3' H x 24' W
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Description:  FIGURES: NATURE, ART, ENERGY, LAW, SCIENCE, IMAGINATION". SCULPTURES SAVED FROM Originally part of Throop Hall and unveiled February 5, 1910. Alexander Calder went by "Alexander Stirling Calder" and was a Pasadena resident.

Description:  The artists, Robert Irwin and Douglas Campbell, collaborated to create an open space that connects the public with the natural world. Within the sunken courtyard, three elements offer a narrative about the natural Pasadena landscape and its public spaces: a tree, a fountain and a decorated column. A massive California Sycamore (Platanus racemosa), which traditionally signals the presence of water and habitation in the dry southern California, grows next to the head of a fountain. The fountain, which begins as a softly upwelling source springing from the roots of the sycamore, recognizes the importance and preciousness of water to life. Water glides down a narrow channel to the base of the Sentinel column where it disappears into the gravel floor. The Sentinel, the third ceremonial object in the Courtyard, rises as a column carrying the blue light recognizing the police department, the guardians of the City. The Sentinel column is a symbol of the safe haven Pasadena residents call home. Such a sign of police protection and assistance reinforce the presence of the Police Department facing The Pasadena Way. The combination of the tree and water elements and the symbolic blue hue of the Sentinel's beam embody the expression of civic values within the Pasadena community.

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Description:  Phantasmagoria of Joy depicts a bright blue figure in a circular formation doing a "static, kinetic, stop-motion back flip with a three-quarter twist." The word "phantasmagoria" refers to the optical illusion created by the sculpture as the repeated blue figure appears to be in motion and seems to pass into itself.
Dimensions: 75"x 87.5"x 32.5" on 24"x 20"x 45" pedestal
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Description:  Acrylic painting - one of several artworks at Art Center in the sculpture garden and other outdoor locations. Artwork by the following artists: Michael Todd, Michel Gerard, Robert Lobe, Gifford Myers, Charles Arnoldi, Richard Beckman, Karen Carson, Jill Giegrich, Keith Haring, Michael Heizer, and Norihiko Minoda. Artwork was on loan to Art Center and has since been removed.
Dimensions: 84" x 96" x 2"
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Description:  In 1934, the U.S. Treasury Department collaborated with the Board of Education and the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Arts Project to commission a mural within Pasadena's McKinley School library. Artist Frank Tolles Chamberlain was chosen to design the mural under the theme of education. During the mural's execution, Chamberlin invited several students from McKinley to pose as the foreground subjects of the mural. These students appear participating in educational activities in front of a background depicting the Southern California landscape through images of Eaton Canyon and the Arroyo Seco. Chamberlin incorporated a line of verse from Anna Trumbull Waller's poem, Song of Youth, which compliments the mural's theme and the artist's passion for education: "All heritage of the past is mine, to be moulded by my spirit into forms new and fair."

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Description:  Roadside Attraction is a temporary outdoor gallery on a vacant City-owned lot in NW Pasadena that was organized by the Armory Center for the Arts. The installation will be sited at 733 North Fair Oaks Boulevard. Located on a traffic-heavy, vehicular corridor, Roadside Attraction would consist of a set of three vinyl 5' x 12' panels mounted on a wooden support structure with concrete and metal footings, in the configuration of the letter "z." Each screen consists of a vinyl reproduction of a photograph or painting adhered to the framework with grommets, containing image only. The structure will feature three rotating exhibitions, each composed of three distinct artworks and would be installed for approximately 10 - 14 week durations. Because of its shape, size, and placement (set back ten feet from the sidewalk), Roadside Attraction will be visible to commuters and pedestrians moving north and south along North Fair Oaks. The images of each installation will be selected by the Armory's curatorial staff. Artwork selections will be made based on their visual and conceptual cohesiveness and their thematic connection with concurrent exhibitions in Armory's Caldwell Gallery. The intention of the artwork is to build a relationship between the passers-by and the installation, triggering viewers to find personal resonance with the images. The first installation contains artwork from Whitney Bedford, Katie Shapiro and Emilie Halpern.
Dimensions: three vinyl 5' x 12' panels mounted on a wooden su
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Description:  Bronze sculpture of a coyote figure representing native fauna looks "startled" by the viewer. The wall fragment refers to current development of the area.

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Description:  "How We Came to the Fifth World". Creatd by Cindy Scheckel & Mr. Alvaro Ramos' 5th grade class. Sponsored by the City of Pasadena Cultural Planning Division, Neighborhood Service Division's Graffiti Abatement Program, The Neighborhood Revitalization Team and David Kline.
Dimensions: 322' W x 6' H
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Description:  mosaic tile murals on wall and stairs to Vroman's Bookstore courtyard

Description:  Quetzalcoaltl, the plumed serpent represents wisdom, the arts and spritual elightenment. The two triangular sections refer to numerical systems utilized by the Aztecs. The water element provides allusion to life force.
Dimensions: 35' H x 20' W x 6" D overall , plus fountain area
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Description:  decorative metal work

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Description:  The artist team MERGE created Passerby, a series of photographs of different people walking and standing- as seen from above, which cover the bottom side of the four glass canopies. MERGE collaborated with Pasadena's Armory Center for the Arts who organized a community photo shoot for the project. The images of these "passersby" create a hypothetical urban population, as might be found on such a busy intersection as Green and Lake. This installation refers to the fact that living in a city we constantly pass each other, often without acknowledging each other's presence. MERGE constructed the "shadow" of each depicted "passerby", as if each person that is shown on the canopies above was standing in exactly this position on the sidewalk right underneath it. The resulting fake "shadows" were traced and permanently captured by embedding the shadow shapes in the sidewalk using a slightly darker shade of concrete.
Dimensions: between 12' and 16'
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Description:  Laddie John Dill incorporated his artwork, Light Trap, onto elevator shafts facing an interior parking court. With their burnished oil finish, the pieces respond to their architectural environment on a grand scale, creating reflections of the building that shift in the light and an abstract composition of color and texture that refers to the immediate landscape. His finishing and burnishing techniques allow his work to capture and control light without creating glare or other potential distractions.
Dimensions: 360" x 96" x 2" Each
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Description:  Acrylic mural painted on exterior of ceramic studio with neighborhood scenes.

Description:  "Fields of Light" art glass mounted above the main entrance. It references the flora and fauna of Southern California through an abstract design. The art glass takes into consideration the craftsman era and fuses it with a present day abstract sensibility.
Dimensions: 67.25" round wihtin a 72" square frame
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Description:  Awning system with 12 solar spectrum, prism panels through which sunlight streams at different times of the day. Pedestrians can engage this interactive artwork by moving through the rainbow patterns cast upon the sidewalk entrance by the sunlight that passes through the prisms overhead. The ephemeral quality of the solar spectrums adds a colorful dimension to the adjoining building, while reflecting its geometric architectural design.
Dimensions: 12- 46"x48"x1" prism panels, 12'H awnings
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Description:  Mobius Bench II is a one-sided surface formed by holding one end of a fixed rectangle, rotating the opposite end through 180 degrees and then applying it to the first end. A seat is formed by a three-dimensional mobius strip: a "Y" that forms a seat, the back of the seat and the bottom of the seat- "Y" turns and rotates and joins itself in a continuous, closed curve. The seat functions as furniture, playground equipment, and as light. The bench is forked: one arm hugs the columns next to Macy's while the other arm reaches out toward pedestrians as they walk from the parking lot.
Dimensions: 34.73" H x 344.89" W x 223.30" D
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Description:  Leaning toward pedestrians from the top of a cylindrical cement column appear two adjoined bronze human figures designed by artist, John Frame. With arms spread at his sides, the front figure peers in the opposite direction from his right arm which holds an open ring. An armless, slender male torso appears from behind wearing a hat like that of the court jesters seen onstage at the nearby Pasadena Playhouse.

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Description:  "Kneeling Man with Hammer". Colorful oversized scupture of workman with hammer.
Dimensions: 96" x 96" x 48"
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Description:  Stone sculpture - one of a number of artworks at Art Center in the sculpture garden and other outdoor locations include the following artists: Michael Todd, Michel Gerard, Robert Lobe, Gifford Myers CHarles Arnoldi, Richard Beckman, Karen Carson, Keith Haring, Michael Heizer, Rod Kagan, and Norihiko Minoda. Artwork was on loan to Art Center and has since been removed.
Dimensions: 122" x 45" x 6"
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Description:  25' abstract, rectangular, steel sculpture. The sculpture consists of 3 sides, interior and exterior sides can be viewed from different angles. Two exterior sides are painted blue enamel, two exterior sides are coated with a mirrored finished, interior sides are painted with a white enamel.
Dimensions: 25' x
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Description:  Steel sculptures, grouped. This is one of several artworks at Art Center in the sculpture garden and other outdoor locations. Artwork by the following artists: Michael Todd, Michel Gerard, Robert Lobe, Gifford Myers, Charles Arnoldi, Richard Beckman, Karen Carson, Jill Giegrich, Keith Haring, Michael Heizer, and Norihiko Minoda.
Dimensions: 168" x 324" x 288"
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Description:  Painted mural with images of soccer players and mayan figures painted on a brick wall
Dimensions: 9' high x 60' wide
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Description:  One of two complex, representational, tile murals that depicts various landmarks and symbols of Pasadena's cultural heritage - people picking oranges, Blacker house and Gamble House, City Hall dome, and scenes from the Japanese Gardens of the Huntington.

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Description:  One of two complex, representational tile murals that depicts various landmarks and symbols of Pasadena's cultural heritage - Rose Bowl, Tournament of Roses Parade, Colorado Bridge, Castle Green, City Hall.

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Description:  METAL CIRCLES WITH WATER ELEMENT

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Description:  Sculpture and Fountain
Dimensions: 7' H x 11' W
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Description:  "Moore's Stone Volute". Mountain replication. Can walk on it.
Dimensions: 30' dia x 6" H

Description:  Mural. This is one of a number of artworks at Art Center in the sculpture garden and other outdoor locations include the following artists: Michael Todd, Michel Gerard, Robert Lobe, Gifford Myers CHarles Arnoldi, Richard Beckman, Karen Carson, Keith Haring, Michael Heizer, Rod Kagan, and Norihiko Minoda.
Dimensions: 120" x 288" x 2"
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. Not too long ago, the 100' mirror in the Mt. Wilson telescope was the largest in the world. The universe was more accurately defined by such resident astronomers and cosmologists as Edwin Hubble and Albert Einstein.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. Not too long ago, the 100' mirror in the Mt. Wilson telescope was the largest in the world. The universe was more accurately defined by such resident astronomers and cosmologists as Edwin Hubble and Albert Einstein.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. Not too long ago, the 100' mirror in the Mt. Wilson telescope was the largest in the world. The universe was more accurately defined by such resident astronomers and cosmologists as Edwin Hubble and Albert Einstein.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed twenty-five Harlequinade sculptures to decorate the light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut outs represent the comedic character's brightly adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. The School of Culinary Arts and the resident community of fine restaurants are represented by the chef's art. Some people like to eat and some people like to dine.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' warp wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. The School of Culinary Arts and the resident community of fine restaurants are represented by the chef's art. Some people like to eat and some people like to dine.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. The School of Culinary Arts and the resident community of fine restaurants are represented by the chef's art. Some people like to eat and some people like to dine.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. The free form dancer stretches the bounds of physical limitations. The rhythmic leaps are embodiment of freedom.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. The free form dancer stretches the bounds of physical limitations. The rhythmic leaps are embodiment of freedom.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. The free form dancer stretches the bounds of physical limitations. The rhythmic leaps are embodiment of freedom.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. The interior designer works with color, form, texture, brillance and design. The intent is to coordinate multiple art forms into a living space.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. The interior designer works with color, form, texture, brillance and design. The intent is to coordinate multiple art forms into a living space.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. The interior designer works with color, form, texture, brillance and design. The intent is to coordinate multiple art forms into a living space.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. As one of the 12 signs of the Asian zodiac, the dragon represents one of the most widely recognized images of Asian iconography.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. As one of the 12 signs of the Asian zodiac, the dragon represents one of the most widely recognized images of Asian iconography.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. As one of the 12 signs of the Asian zodiac, the dragon represents one of the most widely recognized images of Asian iconography.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. As one of the 12 signs of the Asian zodiac, the dragon represents one of the most widely recognized images of the Asian iconography.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. Perhaps the epitome of highbrow culture is the concert pianist. The grand piano environment, peopled by a tux-clad master, commands respect.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. Perhaps the epitome of highbrow culture is the concert pianist. The grand piano environment, peopled by a tux-clad master, commands respect.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. Perhaps the epitome of highbrow culture is the concert pianist. The grand piano environment, peopled by a tux-clad master, commands respect.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. Bent over backward, the trombonist blows out the liberating sounds of jazz. The dress recalls the classical origins of America's cultural awakening.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. Bent over backward, the trombonist blows out the liberating sounds of jazz. The dress recalls the classical origins of America's cultural awakening.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed edit Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. Bent over backward, the trombonist blows out the liberating sounds of jazz. The dress recalls the classical origins of America's cultural awakening.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. The flamboyant drapes of the Zoot suit exemplify a street performance. Colorful costume dresses the parade of life in Pasadena.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. The flamboyant drapes of the Zoot suit exemplify a street performance. Colorful costume dresses the parade of life in Pasadena.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. The flamboyant drapes of the Zoot suit exemplify a street performance. Colorful costume dresses the parade of life in Pasadena.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  The artist team East Los Streetscapers, under the leadership of Wayne Healy, designed eight Harlequinade sculptures to decorate 25 light poles found throughout Pasadena's Playhouse District. The artist designed each steel wrap with a unique design referencing the brightly-colored diamond shapes of the Harlequin character often found in theater. While these diamond cut-outs represent the comedic character's brightly-adorned costume and mask, the vertical edges of the exterior octagonal cylinder surrounding the light pole symbolize the drape-like movement of the stage curtain. Solar powered lighting illuminates the colorful wraps and beams of light shine through the diamond shapes, adding a glowing element to the Playhouse District at night. The flamboyant drapes of the Zoot suit exemplify a street performance. Colorful costume dresses the parade of life in Pasadena.
Dimensions: 3'6"x10' wrap, 3"x9" mounting bracket
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Description:  Sculpture -- one of a number of artworks at Art Center in the sculpture garden and other outdoor locations include the following artists: Michael Todd, Michel Gerard, Robert Lobe, Gifford Myers CHarles Arnoldi, Richard Beckman, Karen Carson, Keith Haring, Michael Heizer, Rod Kagan, and Norihiko Minoda.
Dimensions: 54" x 73 1/2" x 73"

Description:  The City of Pasadena has memorialized Jackie and Mack Robinson in two monumental bronze portrait heads sited across from City Hall in Pasadena. The sculptures reflect the city's appreciation for the brother's contributions beyond the athletic sphere as role models for African Americans and others in their ability to overcome racial barriers and offer hope under the contemporary social climate. The brothers' accomplishments can be traced to their youth in Pasadena and beyond through Mack's competition in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and Jackie's years with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Following his athletic accomplishments, Mack made Pasadena his permanent home where he led the fight against street crime. After two years serving in the U.S. army, Jackie was honorably discharged from his service having refused to give in to racial discrimination within the service. The sculptures function as likenesses of the two athletes and also offer a visual narrative of their accomplishments in politics, community service and sports. The artist team designed the sculptures, incorporating bas relief imagery into the surface of the hair. Images of the two figures in action recede into the surface between the left and right ears of both sculpted heads. Within Mack's hair, outlines of runners appear in action captured in the bronze surface next to quotes from the life of the 1936 Olympic Silver medalist. To Mack's right, outlines of an athlete appear above the letters "UCLA," signifying Jackie's college years and the four sports in which he competed, leading up to his years in major league baseball. These representations of the two brothers symbolize not only their contributions to American sports but their perseverance in breaking racial barriers, offering hope and inspiration to future generations.
Dimensions: 10' h
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Description:  Tile mural design for Cinema Lofts. Countdown Leader refers to the visual second-by-second countdown that was used to cue the beginning of film segments for playback. The artist chose to display the numbers "217" to represent the building's street address. Keeping with the cinematic theme, the mural appears cropped, suggesting the subtle transition of images that appear in film. By using a multitude of images, the artist was able to convey a pixilated look that would otherwise appear in modern digital film. The mural's color scheme in black, white and grays reinforces the modernist style of the building's architecture while referencing the days of black and white cinema.
Dimensions: 23' 4" H x 13' 8" W
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Description:  In Forward Motion, Gordon Huether created metal awnings enhanced by glass, including a canopy marking the main entrance to the building. The modern design of the canopy references CalTech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and gives the art project a futuristic look. The dichroic glass running behind the fluted glass give the doors a kinetic quality by creating reflective and transmissive light effects simultaneously, depending on the angle of viewing and the light source. The key component, the entrance canopy to the office building has various dichroic glass elements embedded within it, offering an ever changing play of colors in the artwork, as well as reflecting onto the sidewalk as the sun passes during the day, while creative lighting will illuminate the artwork for a nighttime presence.
Dimensions: 240' linear x 1'6", 31' linear x 2'6", 2'6" x 7'
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Description:  THREE STANDING SCULPTURES PLACED OUTSIDE MAIN ENTRANCE OF ARMORY FOR THE ARTS
Dimensions: 8 by 1 foot
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Description:  Sculptural, colored concrete forms with water element
Dimensions: 60' wide
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Description:  Sculptural, colored concrete forms with water element
Dimensions: 50' wide
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Description:  Large-scale, digitally-manipulated, partly abstract mural of succulent plants covers the entire west side of the Fish Market. Mural is applied to weather-resistant canvas, which can be replaced if necessary. Part of the Neighborhood Enhancement Mural Program Pilot.

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Description:  Temporary public art event on January 22, 2012 in which artist Richard Jackson created an enlarged, remote-controlled, balsa wood model airplane, filled it with paints, and crashed it into a large canvas located at the Rose Bowl, Brookside Park, Area H. Event was organized by Armory Center for the Arts as part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time initiative. It was funded by the Getty and National Endowment fo rthe Arts. An exhibit of the canvas and detritus of the event followed at the Armory Center for the Arts.
Dimensions: plane 16' wingspan, canvas wall 20'

Description:  Along Colorado Boulevard, a large abstract sculpture captures the attention of pedestrians passing by the office building in front of which it appears. The twisted oval shape captures the sunlight at various angles, reflecting the smooth surface of the bronze sculpture. Specks of light shimmer from the blue granite base supporting the bronze sculpture from below. The flat surfaces of the base, like that of the commercial office building, contrast with the abstract shape of the object, adding an organic element to the urban landscape.
Dimensions: 7'H x 5'9" W x 23" D
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Description:  Metal sculpture, one of several artworks at Art Center in the sculpture garden and other outdoor locations. Artwork by the following artists: Michael Todd, Michel Gerard, Robert Lobe, Gifford Myers, Charles Arnoldi, Richard Beckman, Karen Carson, Jill Giegrich, Keith Haring, Michael Heizer, and Norihiko Minoda.
Dimensions: 24" x 84" x 12"

Description:  This dumpling-shaped ceramic sculpture glazed in vibrant blue is one example of Kaneko's signature dangos. Dango, the Japanese word for dumpling, references the artist's Japanese background that influences his large-scale ceramic work.
Dimensions: 7' H
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Description:  "Kioku", a large scale, triangular ceramic sculpture sits in a landscaped recess facing the Pacific Asia Museum. The 1,200 pound, hand-built and glazed ceramic sculpture intentionally fills the space. Under a clear glaze, black slip covers its upper half and intricately drips down over the white slip base. Floating over and parting through the interlocking black and white, a gold-banded edge with a "strike line" of feathered red, extends over its crown from midpoint front and back.
Dimensions: 78" H x 75" W x 25" D
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Description:  A three-dimensional fountain with a contrasting color scheme of warm coral, orange and yellow hues and cool sea greens and blues. Organic leaf-shaped tiles are placed in different sizes upon a flat tile-covered wall rising from a shallow fountain pool. The interlocking grooves in the tiles give the fountain wall the appearance of water droplets falling upon a background of flat hand cast porcelain tiles. The contrast of earth tones captures the natural landscape of Pasadena, from the mountains bordering the city on the east and the ocean to the west.
Dimensions: 6' 10" x 16'
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Description:  Fountain at the center of an open courtyard depicts a series of flower petals and leaves fanning out in a kaleidoscope of colors. Flowers seem to float like lily pads upon a watery blue tile surface. Long green leaves, violet and white flowers extend from a fuchsia at the fountain's central axis where water emerges upward, spilling down upon the shallow fountain pool. The points along the edge of the fountain offer visitors a place to sit and view the fountain.
Dimensions: 19'D x 20"H
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Description:  Stone and glass mosaic mural. The artist photographed the interior and exterior of the Raymond Theatre extensively and from these photos created a composition that loosely references the historic urns on the façade. The urn form is symmetric when seen at a distance and asymmetric in the up close composition of mosaic. In the detail of cut Italian glass, marble and granite the viewer can see a variety of compositions depending on her position. An exploration of color, texture and form, the surface is lively and changes as the sun moves across it during the day. Two Urns is composed of Mexican Byzantine cut glass, Italian glass smalte, German Gold, Uroboros glass, Giallo Atlanticle, Giallo Reale, Travertino Persiano, Onyx Persiano, Rosa Italiano, Light Rosso Verona, Admeter Rot, Red Granite, white Carrara marble, white Calcutta marble, and Azul Bahia
Dimensions: 2 mosaics, each app. 59" wide x 181" high
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Description:  Art Park Parking Garage. Various murals painted in parking garage

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Description:  Carved granite sculptures and engraved granite pathway set within a designed landscape of pathways defining nine 20' diameter gardens. Central element is a 100 yr. old Chinese Elm that was originally located on the property developed for the site. Located at De Lacey Commons at Westgate Pasadena
Dimensions: 80' x 83'
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Description:  Bravely guarding the Raymond Street side of Memorial Park stands a Union soldier cast in bronze. The natural green hue of the soldier's bronze surface echoes the natural landscape of the park where visitors can enjoy the cool shade of the trees on a warm Pasadena afternoon. Dedicated Memorial Day, 1906, Inscribed: “Erected By The Citizens of Pasadena To Perpetuate The Memory Of The Defenders Of The Union ’61 to ‘65"

Description:  Six kiln-formed glass panels based on the West Coast Arts and Crafts movement. The panels have been installed in three locations on the Cordova side of Arpeggio. Accentuating a single Arts and Crafts design motif for each panel, Stephen created dynamic designs in texture and light of the glass. These creations are referenced from textiles, metal and wood work and jewelry motifs from the Arts and Crafts period that has influenced much of Pasadena architecture and design.
Dimensions: 61" x 36"
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Description:  A colorful border to the series of fountains found throughout the Plaza Las Fuentes, there are three tile motifs, each with a unique color scheme. Tiles appear along a low horizontal walls facing the inside courtyard. Water spouts from the base of a low fountain reflecting the blue tiles and accented by the interaction of yellow and red square tiles lining the decorated wall. At the farthest right edge of the fountain, a pattern of bright neon green, emerald, deep purple shapes reference the surrounding organic environment and stand out against a lavender tile background. A walk along the main fountain wall to the third panel lining a pathway reveals a vibrant transition from primary colors to a field of neon green rosettes within a background of neon pink waves. Tiles surrounding the Batchelder fireplace are also by Kozloff.

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Description:  "Holey Gates" has two references. One is literal in that the Gates are made of perforated steel. The artist, Susan Landau has an interest in the ways that steel can be made to be transparent and yet retain its strength as a material. For this project, the artist was able to achieve the effect of transparency but also arious patterns of transparencies created by differences in hole sizes and shapes. These differences are subtle and almost dainty which is not what is expected of steel and encountered close up by viewers/visitors to the building. The second less serious reference the artist makes is to the heavenly or "pearly gates" using a play on words of "holy' to "holey".
Dimensions: 102" x 108" and 102" x 148 1/2"
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Description:  4 etched glass mirrors in peach, bronze, smoke and clear with gold, copper, and silver leaf. Saw cut, sandblasted, caulked concrete floor. Artwork incorporates mathematic equations, symbolic drawings, text from the fire fighters, as well as figures of fire fighters in the design of the project. The etched glass mirrors are reflective (like water) and changeable with movement (like fire). Each mirror represents an element. Clear mirror-1'10" x 1' 6"; Smoke mirror 2'4" x 1'7"; Peach mirror 1'6" x 2'3"; Bronze mirror 1'5" x 1'4". Floor area is 10'7" square
Dimensions: various dimensions for three mirrors and floor
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Description:  Designed by artist Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, Pasadena's Memorial Flagpole was dedicated on February 12, 1927 in memory of Pasadena's residents who served in World War I. At its base, the one hundred and fifteen foot tall pole displays the names of those Pasadenans who gave their lives in the war and remembers them with the inscription: "In Proved Remembrance of Our Glorious Dead MCMXVIII."
Dimensions: 7'H (base), 110'H (pole)
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Description:  3 components to this sculpture (1) Stacked Element: An abstract form composed of layers of plate aluminum rings rises above the two other elements of this installation. The rotund shape and soaring height of the silver-hued sculpture make it the dominant piece within the courtyard. With its uneven surface, Stacked Element offers a tactile experience for curious pedestrians seeking to interact with the sculptures. (2) Sphere: Deep blue sphere sculpture; the second element within his Untitled Three project. Star patterns adorn the smooth steel surface of the Sphere sculpture, representing the southern California night skies. This element of the installation captures the artist's goal of representing abstractions of the world and space through a variety of symbols. While the dark blue hue of the orb reflects the darkness of the night sky, its shape references local explorations of space at Caltech. (3) Icosahedron: One of three sculptures that appear within the outside courtyard of the Condominium Project. The first of these three sculptures, Icosahedron, a geometric bronze cast object with a jewel-like quality glows from its green patina. The artist chose bronze with the anticipation that the surface of the crystal-like form would transform to become more jewel-like from natural exposure and the burnishing effect of people rubbing the bronze surface.
Dimensions: 101"x 40.5"x 40.5"; 40"x 40"x 40";45" x 52" x 52"
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Description:  Construction site with glass figures based on actual Department of Water and Power employees. Removed from original location at One Colroado and resited at Pasadena City College in 2008.

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Description:  Cast and hammered aluminum sculpture. This is one of several artworks at Art Center in the sculpture garden and other outdoor locations. Artwork by the following artists: Michael Todd, Michel Gerard, Robert Lobe, Gifford Myers, Charles Arnoldi, Richard Beckman, Karen Carson, Jill Giegrich, Keith Haring, Michael Heizer, and Norihiko Minoda.
Dimensions: 57 1/2" x 114" x 58"

Description:  Dreamer with Fish Fountain refers to a series of eight sculptural fountains located throughout the Plaza Las Fuentes. The multi-leveled garden landscape of the plaza is connected by white low-walled fountains creating a tranquil experience for the curious observer. Four delicate snails spouting water from their round bronze shells appear throughout the cascading fountains, encompassing a central fountain depicting a dynamic dragon fly. This soaring creature with spread wings soars above the ground between McCormick & Schmick's and the Westin Hotel. Each location boasts its own turtle fountain: a turtle with abstract shell design facing the Westin and a water-spouting frog riding atop a turtle welcomes visitors to the Euclid entrance to the plaza.

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Description:  Diversity captures the spirit of community at a gateway site that unifies residential east Pasadena with the commercial Central District. The faces, while representing cultural differences, are unified in color, style and theme to underscore our commonalities.
Dimensions: 1) 76"x22.5"x2", 2) 80"x22"x2", 3) 87"x21.5"x2"
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Description:  Planting a Garden creates a green zone with floral sculptures and planted wildflowers in a highly trafficked corridor. Five hand painted panels are formed to conjure a Japanese folding screen and provide an illuminated landscape amidst the businesses of this semi-industrial area. The floral images reference the San Gabriel Valley ecosystem and are a metaphor for Pasadena's diversity.
Dimensions: 1) 4.25'x4' 2) 6.5'x4' 3) 8'x5' 4) 8'x5' 5) 8'x5'
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Description:  SCULPTURE LOCATED ON CALTRANS PROPERTY AND ADDRESS CREATED FOR ART TRACKING AND ARCHIVING PURPOSES. NOT ASSOCIATED WITH 260 BELLEFONTAINE ST./"guerrilla" sculpture installed without prior permission in 2009 and then permitted by Public Works and reinstalled in 2011
Dimensions: 18' high
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Description:  Pasadena Arts Buses. Artists each created designs that were digitally printed on adhesive backed vinyl and placed on the City's Area Rapid Transit buses (ART).

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Description:  This eight foot tall sculpture consisted of three parts: an aluminum structural I beam, a metal broom with wooden handle, and an etching of the cover sheet of the plans for the building at which it was sited. Sight Line was removed from the site in 2007.

Description:  Two hexagonal lighting fixtures in perforated copper and opalene glass. The design of the fixtures was influenced by the Arts & Crafts style and incorporates the materials of craftsman artisans: hammered copper, solid copper rivets, opalene glass and handmade chain. McEwen's design reflects his inspiration from Japanese architectural joinery and the decorative arts. The results are a contemporary synthesis of early arts and crafts motifs along with Japanese geometry and elegance of form, done in a grand style.
Dimensions: 2'4" W x 7' L
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Description:  "Dr. Crump's Mobile Field Lab" was a temporary, interactive installation that invited spectators into an artist-created environment. The installation was part of "The Tender Land: Pasadena Festival of Arts, History, Music, and Science," California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, October 9, 2004 - January 31, 2005. The artwork was intended to engage with the city-wide Festival, using the "land" theme. Inside the “laboratory” or trailer, spectators experienced a quirky world of scientific investigation and relics, a space hovering somewhere between science and art, history, and fiction. Photo Credit: copyright Michael McMillen, image courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, C.A.
Dimensions: between 12' and 16'
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Description:  A 40-foot spire of telescoping steel and bronze ascends into the sky and announces the entry to this station. Capped at its pinnacle with a gleaming gold baseball, the tower is comprised of kinetic elements including an anemometer for measuring wind force, and a weather vane depicting a miniature Bell X-1 rocket plane balanced by a Cadillac tail fin. The Bell X-1 rocket, piloted by Chuck Yeager, was the first aircraft to break the sound barrier in 1947. These elements make apt reference to the California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Art Center College of Design, all located in the Pasadena area. A bronze collar clads the bottom 10-feet of the tower, and contains a wealth of interesting and engaging designs, textures, and artifacts relating to both geological time and the history of Pasadena. Complex sculptural images including book spines, hot metal letterpress type, doorbells, locks, metal cars and train tracks, keys, pencils and paintbrushes, miniature doors, and miscellaneous small hardware fittings represent a conceptual stratum of history, knowledge, and subtext, and pay tribute as well to the fields of art and science. Prominently appearing on the tower collar is the number 42, which commuters and sports fans alike will recognize in conjunction with the gold baseball as references to Jackie Robinson, a long-time Pasadena resident and the first African American to break the "color line" in professional baseball.

Description:  Sculpture - one of several artworks at Art Center in the sculpture garden and other outdoor locations. Artwork by the following artists: Michael Todd, Michel Gerard, Robert Lobe, Gifford Myers, Charles Arnoldi, Richard Beckman, Karen Carson, Jill Giegrich, Keith Haring, Michael Heizer, and Norihiko Minoda.
Dimensions: 82" x 30" x 30"

Description:  The third element of Gwynn Murrill's series of artwork based on the theme of bringing the mountains to the city reveals a gracefully poised cougar carved in relief. This carving was inspired by the arid climates set in and adjacent to mountains common to many locales in settings as disparate as the city of Pasadena and the state of Montana. The smooth, round edges of the cougar's body suggest the fluid movement of this predatory animal in action in its natural environment. A cougar image symbolizes the wildness of the urban environment and protection offered by the building upon which it appears.
Dimensions: 8'6" x 20'
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Description:  The most visible and largest artwork within Gwynn Murrill's series of contemporary sculptures for the Montana, is a dramatic intaglio carving into the limestone panel sections that are situated above the building's main entrance on Colorado Blvd. Two large-scaled raptors are carved into the limestone, creating a flowing narrative for the building's façade. On the left side, a raptor hovers over the main entrance with wings spread in predatory motion. A profile view of the raptor on the right offers a close up perspective of the talons ready to grasp its prey. These relief images symbolize the raptors that descend upon the valley where Pasadena sits below the San Gabriel Mountains.
Dimensions: 18' x 80'
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Description:  The sculpture is a six-foot tall steel totem that is internally lit and includes cut out images that pay homage to Pasadena's landscape, landmarks, youth culture, and the Northwest Pasadena neighborhood.
Dimensions: 6'Hx30.5"D
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Description:  Tile mural incorporating images of Pasadena, San Gabriel Mountains, and City Hall alongside two superimposed views of a smiling, bicycling-riding Albert Einstein. Three-dimensional objects upon window frames create a realistic window display. On the right side of the mural, fragments of a broken tile have been glued to the windowsill below suggesting the damage created by the impact of a baseball hitting an implied glass surface. Objects like this baseball reference the history of the City and its inhabitants, like Jackie Robinson. Albert Einstein was a visiting scholar at Cal Tech in the 1930's.

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Description:  Large sphere sculpture with tile overlay - one of several artworks at Art Center in the sculpture garden and other outdoor locations. Artwork by the following artists: Michael Todd, Michel Gerard, Robert Lobe, Gifford Myers, Charles Arnoldi, Richard Beckman, Karen Carson, Jill Giegrich, Keith Haring, Michael Heizer, and Norihiko Minoda.

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Description:  Artist Team Gifford Myers and Marlo Bartels designed this circular tile bench with multiple panels depicting Pasadena. Four tile images offer views of historic Pasadena: City Hall rotunda with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background; Arroyo Seco Bridge.

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Description:  The mural was created in honor of Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist from Caltech and is based on his lecture " The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun."
Dimensions: 9 1/2' H x 14' W
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Description:  A series of ceramic tile murals.

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Description:  One of three artworks for the Montana mixed-use development that incorporate a theme of bringing the mountains to the city. A life-size cast bronze bighorn sheep is poised atop two columns of rough-hewn limestone blocks. Water gently pours down the inside faces of the blocks providing a sense of respite during warm weather.
Dimensions: 10' 7" x 12' diameter
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Description:  Margaret Nielsen's mosaic fountain and floor design pay tribute to the rich history and the architecture of the City of Pasadena. The floor mosaic in front of the fountain depicts a medallion of intertwined roses. The fountain continues the rich color scheme and rose motif and incorporates 8 postcard images. Postcards portray historic sites and important images of Pasadena: from the orange groves of the early 20th century, architecture, City Hall, Colorado St. Bridge, Gamble House, Rose Bowl, and parade floats to space exploration and technology of the future at Cal Tech.

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Description:  Artist Ries Niemi has created 550 linear feet of hand-wrought fencing for this station. Influenced by the historical Art Deco buildings of Pasadena, the Craftsman Style detail of architects Greene & Greene, and the beauty of machines and trains from the Industrial Revolution, Niemi designed and fabricated stylized discs, axles, arcs, pistons, turntables, and rails to provide a rich visual vocabulary in stainless steel and bronze. Commissioned by Urban Partners LLC, and in keeping with the City of Pasadena's public art policy, the artist has also created four 6-foot in diameter medallions that crown the top of the plaza elevator tower. The medallions are made from forged bronze, and contain customized lighting elements. Four stainless steel panels at the base of the tower enclose the stairwells to the parking garage below, and suggest fragments of large mysterious machines. The project reflects a contemporary interpretation of the nostalgic design elements that made streamliners and early passenger trains popular and created a culture of sophisticated and elegant travel. "In this work I have created an 'alphabet' of components and shapes, which I have then combined into many different 'sentences.' The work was largely created through an improvised process, almost like playing jazz, where each segment was tried in a variety of ways before the right one suggested itself. In the end, the piece is a lyrical and rhythmic narrative about the glory and mystery of machines." http://www.metro.net/about_us/metroart/ma_mrglddrn.htm
Dimensions: fencing panels of various dimensions
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Description:  Large video projection of artist-selected images gathered from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes that capture light invisible to the human eye.
Dimensions: 34' x 11'

Description:  EnSconce'd marks the nexus of art and science by challenging viewers to orient themselves between Caltech and Pasadena Community College's Art Department. Sculptural vectors direct audiences toward scientific landmarks while elevated architectural forms ground the viewer to the site.
Dimensions: 13'H x 9'W
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Description:  A flat steel and glass sculpture - two circles and one half circle in red, blue and yellow are arranged on a field of geometric shapes, marked by lines bordering frosted and clear glass. Three moons appear on a flat vertical surface at the end of a walkway, adding color to the shaded outdoor space. Thin black triangles separate the circles in a Mondrian-like composition of colored shapes and lines.
Dimensions: 7'9" H x 8' W x 4" D
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Description:  Panels of colorful glass adorn the canopy of the main entrance and are integrated with the dominant glass membrane of the building's exterior. Each panel within this series of abstracted organic images references the medical uses of the building. With a design that reflects the physical impulses of the body, the glass offers a metaphorical visual medicine to the viewer.

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Description:  5' by 30' by 2' steel and wood sculpture with recycled and found objects
Dimensions: 5' x 30' x 2'
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Description:  Two halves of a natural stone boulder flank the entrance steps directing a path towards a central rock fountain sculpture. "Fountainhead Rockscape" is a 3-dimensional rock sculpture with a central running water element made of plated aluminum. Several rocks are situated in the overall landscape. A fluid stream of water trickles down the front surface of the sculpted rock into the surrounding Mexican black beach pebbles below. The bubbling sound of the water emanating from the sculpture embodies the natural serenity of the local mountains in this urban patio setting.
Dimensions: 36"h x 79" x 37"d
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Description:  Artist, Renee Petropoulos designed 317 paces and 21 stops, a terrazzo hardscape that wraps around a corner residential building like a garden path. The artist designed the path as a progression of colors and patterns that are repeated throughout the project like the diamond pattern with large rocks found on Walnut Avenue, the rock pattern on Lake Ave. and the stone pavers on Walnut and Lake Avenues.
Dimensions: 2,500 square feet total
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Description:  A small sculpture garden on the campus of Pasadena City College encompassing Jameson Amphitheater and Galloway Plaza, featuring abstract and figurative sculptures by Deborah Butterfield "Red Pine" (2003), Stephan Balkenhol "Column Figure" (2004), Jack Zajak "Bound Goat" (1988). The garden includes a plaza, a water channel that runs throughout the design, pathways, art spaces and an amphitheater.

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Description:  The artist team of Linda Pollack, Claudia Reisenberger and Christina Ulke collaborated to capture Pasadena's historic mansions within the interior of a local parking garage through their art project, Madison Mansion. The artists worked with two structural elements to recreate the public space under the mansion ideal. Using decorative motifs like those found in old Pasadena mansions, the artists adorned the walls of the seven levels of the garage ramps. Playing with modern materials, the team placed multi-colored reflectors in intricate patterns upon the walls that become intensified from the headlights of cars passing through the garage. The second element of Madison Mansion appears in one location, instead of multiple levels like the wall designs. While waiting in the main elevator lobby on ground floor, the viewer can watch a video installation that mimics a surveillance monitor. The monitor depicts images of the parking structure with scenes interspersed from "When Kings Were the Law," the 1912 Griffith film depicting a costume party shot in the Fenyes mansion, as well as filmed sequences of interior and exterior spaces of Pasadena mansions. These creative elements offer an experience beyond the parking garage's utilitarian function, while offering visitors a glance at Pasadena's architectural history.
Dimensions: varies according to parking garage level
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Description:  Harry Reese created Gifts of a Lifetime as a celebration of the gifts from the community that were established with the opening of Pasadena's original public library in 1884. The artist made four panels of bookshelves to represent the four Pasadena libraries. The painted books within the bookshelf façade adorning the upper ledge of the street facing building suggest the establishment of a social and intellectual community, the foundations and cohesion of present education, and the desire for continued learning. The artist painted three hundred and twenty-nine books, each a different color to symbolize the current world population, reinforcing the idea of community.
Dimensions: 6'H x 12'W
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Description:  25' abstract kinetic sculpture with two movable forms on two pronged fork base. Rotating on precision bearings devised by the artist, the arms are balanced so that slight breezes cause them to sweep like giant scissor blades. Sculpture was originally located at entrance to Parsons on Walnut St, and is now located at Parsons on De Lacey Ave. at Holly Street.
Dimensions: 25' H x 4' H x 8" D
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Description:  WROUGHT IRON PANELS WITH SUN, MOUNTAINS, PALM TREES AND TEXT "LINCOLN AVENUE"
Dimensions: 6' 2" HIGH
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Description:  Sitting outside the Norton Simon Museum of Art, Rodin's Thinker represents the vast collection of contemporary art from the museum's early days as the Pasadena Art Museum. According to the museum: "The image of The Thinker is not that of a passive dreamer, but of a man actively engaged in creative thought. Thinking has been expressed not only through the meditative attitude of the body, but through the effort of every muscle. As Rodin said, 'What makes my Thinker think is that he thinks not only with his brain, with his knitted brow, his distended nostrils and compressed lips, but with every muscle of his arms, back and legs, with his clenched fists and gripping toes.'" http://www.nortonsimon.org/collections/browse_title.php?id=M.1970.2.S

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Description:  Inspired by the modern architecture of the Friend building, Erika Rothenberg designed a work of art that explores the question of what it means to be modern in a historically rich city, such as Pasadena. Her four-panel stainless steel sculpture, Modern Screen, echoes the zigzag roofline of the Friend building, and features elements of architecture and modernism. Upon the panels appears a description about the history of the Friend building, along with images of other Pasadena modernist buildings. The artist's chosen structures include: the original Friend building, the Beckman Auditorium at Cal Tech and the Ambassador College of Fine Art and Science building. Since the back of the sculpture will be only partially visible to passersby, the artist incorporated an elaborate modernist decorative motif, made up of colorful steel panels in myriad shapes.
Dimensions: 66'' by 72'' by 18'' (4 panels at 98 degree angle)
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Description:  Mural depicting symbols and figures of Mesoamerican deities in blues, yellows and browns wraps around El Centro De Accion Social, Inc. According to artist Ernest Saenz Mural was painted by local teenagers from Mary St.

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Description:  "Health is Multi-cultural". Series of banners, benches, and paving. 7 Banners are oil and enamel 60"Hx24"W. 3 Benches are steel, wood frame & acrylic 64"Hx63"Wx20"D. 2 paving are colored concrete 3'10"x3'10"

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Description:  The polyhedron in the fountain is a snub cube, an Archimedean semi-regular solid derived from a cube, with all its edges of equal length. This shape was chosen for the central fountain in the Beckman Institute because it mimics the symetry of the iron storage protein ferritin, which has 24 identical protein subunits arranged in 432 symetry about a core of perhaps 4500 iron atoms in the form of dehydrated ferric hydroxyphosphate. The snub cube has 38 faces and 24 vertices, the vertices then representing the subunits of ferritin.
Dimensions: approx 4' x 3'
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Description:  TWO LARGE SCALE (7.5' X 12') CAST BRONZE SCULPTURES. ARTIST CREATED SCULPTURES BY MANIPULATING 3-DIMENSIONAL DIGITAL SCANS OF HENRY MOORE'S "RECLINING FORM" (1966).
Dimensions: 7.5' X 12' - TWO SCULPTURES
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Description:  Spray paint murals on interior walls of garage of Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA). In the summer of 2004, "Kenny Scharf: California Grown" opened at PMCA as the museum's first tri-level exhibition, with paintings installed and a video screening of Scharf's animated show The Groovenians on the second floor, his bronze sculptures in the third floor Founders Gallery, and the transformation of the PMCA garage into the Kosmic Krylon Garage. After the end of the exhibition ended, the colorful murals spray-painted by Scharf over the course of a week remained on the walls of the garage and will continue on as a permanent installation at the museum.

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Description:  Convergence demonstrates the strength and drama of steel by suspending large, three-dimensional geometric forms to create an optical illusion so that the shapes appear to be floating in space.
Dimensions: 7'H x 7'5"W x 5'11"D
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Description:  Peter Shire has designed a three-dimensional artwork that functions as an awning to the adjoined building entryway. The design features overlain steel beams, both rectangular and round in form, with a red cylinder, yellow cube and blue narrow beam attached to their ends. This arrangement of shapes suggests the pieces have fallen into place by chance, like pick-up sticks that have just been released. Projecting from the building, over the sidewalk, this abstract sculpture hints at the geometric style used by Malevich, the originator of the Avant-garde Suprematist movement.
Dimensions: 12' l x 20' w x 24' depth
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Description:  Whole Flow, a sculpture for Whole Foods Market functions as both work of art and water filtration system. The sculpture is composed of a series of 14 stacked, stainless steel bowls of the same size. The procession of water cascading down the structure into shallow bowls embodies an acoustic and kinesthetic experience for the pedestrian. In the artist's words: "The sculpture mitigates the water quality purging and mitigating and then offering the water to nourish a landscape by water that otherwise would have been discharged into a sewer. The procession is one of healing and of art, a journey of restoration infrastructure, serving as a model and catalyst, and suggesting a procession of paradigm shifts for Pasadena recharging the valley watershed."
Dimensions: 18' x 5'9"
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Description:  Art glass windows by Arthur Stern appear in 2 locations - at the leasing center in the C-2 building and above the entry doors on Green Street. A transom of clear and colored art glass sparkle during the day and glow at night. The design reveals influences of Art Deco and the style of Frank Lloyd Wright found throughout Pasadena. At the rear entrance to the leasing center this streamlined Moderne window design appears in the transom above the door and a large side panel to the right of the entry door. While the earth tones of the colored art glass refer to the green spaces found throughout the city, the geometric arrangement of the window captures the history of Pasadena architecture and urban design.
Dimensions: 6' x6'
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Description:  Handstand is a life-sized, bronze male figure raised on a nine-foot pole and turned upside down in a handstand position, which suggests what might happen when an ordinary businessman allows himself to express instantaneous joy through the flight of movement.
Dimensions: 72" x 36" x 144" including pole
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Description:  Simply titled, Woman at Dusk, Storch's piece depicts a woman walking past the Crown City building, where the mural is located along with Ray Turner's Mt. Wilson at Dusk mural. Looking down, the subject appears to be lost in her thoughts of train schedules or dinner, perhaps even completely unaware of her surroundings. Observed by at least one other person, she is still able to create a private moment of beauty, a topographic place of her own, in the public sphere created by the development.
Dimensions: 92 1/4" x 72"
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Description:  Upon first glance, Jack Sullivan's (Art S.O.S. O'hio) Sign of the Time sculpture appears as one giant road sign hanging above the Union Street parking garage where it greets drivers passing inside or cruising down the street. A closer look reveals that in fact the artist pieced together twenty-five diamond shaped, yellow road signs in the form of one large universal sign. Re-contextualizing familiar road signs into a single collage allowed the artist to create a work of public art that emphasizes the lively graphic quality of the individual signs.
Dimensions: 15' x 15' square
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Description:  May Sun drew from the natural history of Pasadena when designing her urban hardscape, Flow. The project includes cast bronze images of leaves from the trees found throughout Pasadena, and images of native and extinct fish that once lived in the rivers and streams of the Pasadena area. These icons have been imbedded in the concrete along the Lake and Walnut sidewalks, culminating in the main lobby of the building, providing a whimsical journey into the history of the San Gabriel Valley for the observant pedestrian.
Dimensions: Multiple dimensions
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Description:  laquered steel sculpture -one of several artworks at Art Center in the sculpture garden and other outdoor locations. Artwork by the following artists: Michael Todd, Michel Gerard, Robert Lobe, Gifford Myers, Charles Arnoldi, Richard Beckman, Karen Carson, Jill Giegrich, Keith Haring, Michael Heizer, and Norihiko Minoda. Artwork was on loan to Art Center and has since been removed.
Dimensions: 135" x 132" x 60"
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Description:  The husband and wife team of Ray Tuner and Sally Storch collaborated to create a dual mural project capturing the Pasadena landscape. In Turner's Mt. Wilson at Dusk mural, the artist addresses the concepts of landscape and topography in a straightforward way. After photographing views of the site from the roof of an adjacent building, Turner rendered the ruggedness and golden light that is uniquely Pasadena. Referencing paintings of the plein air school, Turner's work shows the city dwarfed by the San Gabriel Mountains yet still distinct in the foreground, as if some sort of compromise had been worked out.
Dimensions: 92 1/4" x 72"
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Description:  A large bowl that remains perpetually full pours a constant rivulet of water into a water trough element, terminating in an acoustic water cascade. The cascade adds the sound element of both movement and falling water to the piece. To me, Westridge School is a place of great continuity with appreciation for both the environment and the self. The fountain serves as a metaphor in that the Westridge community is like a river with a constant flow of activity and energy. Each individual, whether a student, teacher or community member, adds their part, their drop of water to the river. The bowl that is perpetually full adds its creative momentum to the river that flows through. It is important that the water in the bowl is reflective ­ one can actually see herself in it ­ and that it joins the moving water. One can hear the vitality of the water and the perpetual movement in connection to the planet.
Dimensions: 3' x 20'

Description:  The artist team of Christina Ulke and Ashok Sukumaran designed an installation featuring a redesigned parking ticket booth with an interactive lighting element. The booth becomes a reference to an obsolete kind of security apparata. In The Savant Guard, the act of surveillance is removed from the booth, making it the subject of both the human and machine gaze. A sun-reflector has been placed on the edge of the site to reflect natural light onto the ticket booth. This mirror-based tracking system follows the sun through the day, reflecting a constant beam of light onto the south face of the booth. The colors employed for the lighting are used to respond to the viewer in a public situation. As pedestrians pass or interrupt the reflected sunbeam from the sun-tracker, their speed determines the color of the booth making a personal action quite public. The color change is computer programmed to react to different speeds to provide a change of color.
Dimensions: 5'8" booth, 2 3'4" disks, 13'6" x 7.5" pole
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Description:  One of seven sculptures on Ambassador College grounds. Many are of bird or water creatures and include bronze, steel and marble, some in water elements.

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Description:  SCULPTURE OF MUSTANG

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Description:  In City Speaks, three Pasadena poets, a sculptor and a sound designer, create an intimate outdoor living room. The project pairs a sculptural seating installation intended to recall Pasadena's Arts and Crafts style decorative arts history with an audio component that plays original poetry.
Dimensions: stool:15"x16"x20", chair: 40"x38"x31"
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Description:  TWO WALL PAINTED MURALS WITH BASEBALL FIGURES (Fernando Valenzuela and Jackie Robinson) Created during "Day of 1,000 Volunteers" with artist mentors, parents and students
Dimensions: 6 by 10 feet
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Description:  Pasadena Fire Department 1909 Seagrave buckboard-type fire apparatus; placed in service on September 23, 1909.

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Description:  Four relief sculptures: dove, book, chalice and ship.
Dimensions: each 4 by 6
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Description:  This exhibition features artwork by Pasadena Unified School District students selected from the district's annual all-school exhibit, "No Boundaries." The work for 2007-2008, done by students ranging from kindergarten through grade 12 participating in arts education programs at 18 PUSD schools, was carefully chosen for two exhibitions, on display for six months each, by a panel of Pasadena Arts & Culture Commissioners and community arts professionals. This display of local student art represents the City of Pasadena's commitment to the collaborative partnership among PUSD, the City and its arts and culture institutions to provide a high quality, sequential, standards-based arts curriculum to all students. The City Hall exhibit is called "Bridging Boundaries" because it reflects the "bridge" between the school district and the City. Imaginative collages and large murals embody the array of visual creativity incorporated into local classrooms. Abstract designs visualized by first graders hang next to emotionally captivating black and white images photographed by local high school students. The diversity of media and subject matter presented on the walls outside City Council chambers offer visitors a chance to see the efforts of the partners, the students, their parents, teachers, principals and the community to strengthen and promote the arts and the vital role they play in all our lives.

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Description:  Sculpture:reclaimed metal pipes, pulleys, and chains.
Dimensions: 5 by 8 feet
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Description:  City of Pasadena Parks/Armory Center art tiles. Tile parks markers were created with children's participation. Various children's art tiles created with Prop A. Funds and located at various school and park sites.

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Description:  Select artists are showcased at the 24-Hour Gallery, rotating throughout the year. Programming was initially coordinated by the Cultural Affairs Division of the City of Pasadena. Light Bringer Project and the Armory Center for the Arts have subsequently managed programming at the site.

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Description:  Located under the Holly Street Village Apartments and adjacent to Memorial Park, this station inspired John Valadez to honor the area's earliest indigenous artists, whose ancient pictographs and carvings have been discovered in caves and on rock cliffs and natural outcroppings throughout Southern California. Cutout aluminum images of stylized figures and reptiles based on ancient tribal designs produced by Native Americans inhabiting the coastal and southwestern regions of California were created by Valadez. These images hang suspended between columns above the station platform in an undulating lyrical composition over 100 feet in length. Vibrantly painted in red, orange, white, black and yello, the interconnecting graphic elements cast shadows against the station wall, providing a striking contrast and bringing a rhythmic pulse to the surroundings. www.metro/net/about_us/metroart/ma_mrgldmjv.htm
Dimensions: 100 ft long
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Description:  On the Euclid side of the building, this is one of two murals exploring the natural world of Pasadena, a favorite theme of Arts and Crafts artisans. The elements of the first mural on the left side of the building provide context that clearly states, "This is Pasadena," with the incorporation of the beloved Arroyo Seco Bridge and bright flowers that bloom larger than life under the bridge. Translated, the title reads: "But when the thaw comes, the first sunshine is mine." The mural references the warm southern California sunshine captured in the light reflecting off the white flower blossoms within the mural.
Dimensions: 6'8" x 11'9"
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Description:  One of two murals exploring the natural world of Pasadena, "Per sogni e per chimere, l'anima ho millionaria" offers a view of the right side of the Arroyo Seco Bridge also pictured in the left facing mural. A large white blossom fills in two-thirds of the right panel with the San Gabriel Mountains peeking through the background of the picturesque scene. The translation of the title reads: "When it comes to dreams and visions, I've the soul of a millionaire." This title references the Spanish Mission days of Southern California while drawing upon the dreams that have been envisioned and sought in Pasadena.
Dimensions: 6'8"x 11'9"
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Description:  Although surrounded by shops, restaurants, and office buildings, the heart of Lake Avenue lies not in its commercial core, but in the people who frequent the area and commute through the rail station. Artist Pat Ward Williams used people in transit as the subject for her artwork at the station. Area residents modeled for the artist, and she captured them in the act of pointing, waving, laughing, talking, reaching, rushing, scolding, waiting, and daydreaming. The resulting human-scale black and white photographic portraits were emblazoned on dichroic glass panels that frame the station entry galleries bisected by Lake Avenue. The station's artwork is experienced as silhouetted portraits against colored glass panels. The dichroic glass panels change subtly from shades of gold to turquoise to fuchsia as the viewer moves around and through the station gallery, and the portraits take on infinite detail and gesture. Commuters can view their own life-sized reflections in the glass, creating an animated dialogue between the actual and the illustrated. The photographs contribute to a visual vocabulary that communicates to passengers and passersby alike the collective qualities that unite us all.

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Description:  Projections at Shops on Lake Avenue is a permanent, outdoor public showplace for silent artist-made films, videos and still images. Curated by David Bradshaw, work is chosen for it's dynamics for the site as well as its ability to add richness to the community. The projected images are cast directly on the wall adjacent to the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf at 415 South Lake Ave. Free and easily accessible, the image size is approximately 15 x 20 feet. Artists featured in the first program include seminal figures as well as newer artists working with media: Pat O'Neill, Jennifer Steinkamp, Nan Hoover, Tom Friedman, Lawrence Weiner and Mark Bradford. http://www.projectionsonlake.com/info.html.
Dimensions: 15' x 20'
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Description:  A sculptural installation on the roof of the Trio building, "Three Graces" consists of three tall spires, composed of stainless steel. Each sculpture is kinetic and is illuminated with programmed, colored lights at night. During the day, the sculptures sway with the movement of the wind while the mirror-like finish of the polished surface reflects the natural sunlight.
Dimensions: 1' 6" W x 70' H & 1'4" W x 51' H
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Description:  Pae White has captured the illusion of water within the ridged two-dimensional space of a vertical facing wall. Her four panel acrylic work is overlaid with a single sheet of Starlight tempered glass, composed of multi-layered panels of yellow, orange, blue and blue-green. The textured center of the layered panels give the glass its reflective quality, which is further enhanced through the use of a mirrored finish located on the back of each panel. The four distinct colors chosen for the four panels provide a clean modernist assumption of space juxtaposed to the quirkiness of illusion emanating from the work's interior.
Dimensions: 7' x 10' 4"
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Description:  A sculptural cement block fountain composed of geometric shapes and several bronze water spouts which allow for water movement along the different planes. Sited within a shallow circular pool.
Dimensions: 30' x 23' 3"
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Description:  David Wilkins has created a large, abstract sculpture for the corner of Lake Ave. overlooking the 210 Freeway where it greets motorists entering Pasadena's Playhouse District. The warm Pasadena afternoon sunlight shines through the circular crevice formed by the crescents cut out of the two sculptural pillars standing side by side. The arrangement of the sculptural pieces creates a visual gateway into Pasadena.

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Description:  The gray surface of the abstract Mach Band sculpture heavily contrasts the terra cotta pigment of the bricks supporting the outer structure of Macy's at Green St. and Los Robles Ave. This dark abstract form appears like a vertical arrangement of flat-sided pick-up sticks loosely overlapping one another. Their jagged edges pierce the sky shared by the round tree appearing behind the hard-edged sculpture symbolizing the combination of industry and nature in Pasadena.

Description:  TWO WATER FOUNTAIN SCULPTURES WITH BIRD FORMS IN FLIGHT.
Dimensions: 60" dia.
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Description:  Three egret bird forms with outstretched wings in flight, supported by pole
Dimensions: 37' H
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Description:  "St. Albans Swans". Male and Female Swans in embrace. Title derives from sculpture's original location, on Ambassador College property near St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England.
Dimensions: 52" H
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Description:  Abstract sculpture with intertwined forms.
Dimensions: 23 3/4" H x 28" W with 4" H base
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Description:  Lining the street level of a corner residential building appears a series of iron cast leaflets adorning Rina Zdenek's Untitled fence. Organic leaf shapes suggest the connection of the building to the trees found in the nearby Memorial Park. The dark shade of the iron panels contrasts against the off-white stucco building façade located in urban downtown Pasadena.

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Description:  Three hand-screened ceramic tile murals, the Dalton Tile Murals offer a playful, colorful and dynamic composition of linearly-defined people, furniture and dogs that form a cohesive and vibrant overall design. Zoell's imagery references the notion of domestic activity by citing the human inhabitants of the residences, their animal companions and typical residential furnishings. The dynamism of the linear images are set in motion as an appropriate gesture of the urban pace of Arroyo Parkway exemplified in the adjacent automobile and light rail traffic.
Dimensions: Red 47'x11' 5" Yellow 12'7"x20'3" Green 16'x10'9"
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