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BACKGROUND:
EDUCATION:
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Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA, Masters
Painting
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University of Houston, Houston, TX, B.F.A..
ARTISTS' STATEMENT:
Regarding the Houston METRO Light Rail Station
Project:
"My vision for the Museum District station is an interactive sculpture. This
neighborhood community of people, health sciences, art, architecture,
learning, history and places of worship is dynamic, interactive, educational
and inspiring.
As you approach the station, your first awareness will be the simultaneous
presence of both the platform and the canopy, identified by the repetition
of contrasting circular elements. Colored, textured concrete in the platform
below, via transparency, the brightness of light and space flowing through
the fluid design of the glass canopy overhead is completed by the dimension
of interactive human space between surfaces, creating an ever changing
series of joyful moments experienced and savored by the individual.
When you step off the train, you have the opportunity to be an integral part
of this performance, whether you are standing in the human dimension sized
circles on the platform, moving through the space, sitting on benches,
leaning on the rail, finding your direction by viewing the station maps, or
observing you surroundings."
Maggi Battalino, Artist
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