tour of artprize

Steve & I spent Saturday afternoon touring the wonderful world of ArtPrize in downtown Grand Rapids and highly recommend you make the trip to this fantastic temporary – truly public art museum.

There is something for everybody – from a pink room spackled in frosting, a sweet dream sequence video short, oodles of doodles and even giant photographs of painted ladies…

If memory serves me right, I believe that ribbon tree was from Grand Rapid Public Schools and each ribbon has names of students/teachers on it. 

That balloon sculpture is in the top 10 and the artist, Jason Hackenwerth is from New York…Check out how they made it right on site and take a look at his awesome wearable creations in action.

Loved this concept and am tempted to create my own shelf of scent memories.

The blue bridge was full of lovely large works of art… including a giant table & chair set painted by the wonderful furniture company, Sticks.

I thought this wonder woman photo series was quite amusing and our friend's little girl, Sylvia favorite piece of art was this t-shirt tunnel.  As you can tell by her blurriness – she loved running laps through it.

 

I'm really drawn to the imagery of the figures on the window.

 

I think it's funny how the monkey is in charge of the bronze colored live street performer statue.

 

This installation blew me away.  As you can see, this block has been damaged by some curious hands – but it shows how fragile it is.  I don't know how he transferred such a clear image entirely made out of powder… amazing.  He should have landed in the top 10.

 

The top portrait is of Michael Jordan's mom – made entirely out of Michael's classic Air Jordan silhouette.  And the one below it is made entirely from push pins!  That one get's my vote for the top 10.  I really admire how one can take such an ordinary object and create an amazing portrait.  (you can see the model talking about the piece)

We ended the night with watching this…

And wish we were to there witness this…

So glad we got to be a part of this very first ArtPrize experience!

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