Best Temporary Public Art Sculpture
"Dielectric Screen," by Derek Porter Studios
During its four-year run, the annual Avenue of the Arts temporary sculpture exhibition has been hit-and-miss. Some of the works have been mind-blowing; others have blown chunks. But every year, there's been at least one piece that's made the whole exercise worthwhile. This year's champ was "Dielectric Screen," by Derek Porter Studios. Perched on a set of stairs on the southwest corner of Barney Allis Plaza, this architectonic piece captured the summer light and shattered it into a fury of psychedelic modernism. The design was simple: a couple of towering grids bearing prismatic Plexiglas that shifted colors as they swung in the breeze. The sun's rays penetrated the work, bathing the concrete steps in subtle washes of color. For us, it was public art at its best -- a toothsome anomaly that complemented the urban environment.
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