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Harvest, 2016
Ed Carpenter
Client: Joint Public Agency, Lincoln Nebraska
Pinnacle Bank Arena Plaza
Lincoln NE
Date: August 2016
Dimensions: 48' wide x 45' high
Materials: Stainless steel, laminated glass, stainless steel cables and hardware, concrete base and foundations.
Computer modeling & working drawings: Curtis Pittman
Project administration: Arleen Daugherty
Engineering: KPFF, Portland OR
Lighting design: Biella Lighting Design, Portland OR
Metal fabrication: Puritan Manufacturing, Omaha NE
Site preparation, foundations, electrical & lighting: Hampton Construction, Lincoln NE
Steel erection: Davis Erection, Lincoln NE
Glass fabrication: Haefker Studio, Portland OR
Cables and hardware: West Coast Wire Rope and Rigging, Portland OR
Geotechnical design: OA Olsson Associates, Lincoln NE
Landscape consultation: The Clark Enersen Partners, Lincoln NE
City of Lincoln Project Management: Project Control, Lincoln NE
Photography: Ed Carpenter
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HARVEST
Contributing to the life of the city at urban and pedestrian scales simultaneously, this 45’ high illuminated sculpture was installed adjacent to Lincoln’s new events arena in August, 2016. As the sun passes through its rich layers of stainless steel and glass, arrays of light and shadow are reflected outward, slowly moving through the plaza. At night, two rings of powerful light fixtures at the base illuminate its expansive gesture through programmed light sequences.
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Posted 27 September 2016
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The forms of the sculpture may suggest a sheaf of wheat, fountain, or the supports from the historic train canopy immediately adjacent. The wheat sheaf symbolizes the bounty of the region. It also signifies strength, because bound together the strands of wheat are strong, but singly, they will break or bend.
Fifty five thousand pounds of polished stainless steel were used in the fabrication of “Harvest”, along with 420 panels of laminated glass and 80 stainless steel cables structurally linking the sculpture from top to bottom.
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Harvest, 2016
Ed Carpenter
©Ed Carpenter
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About Ed Carpenter
Ed Carpenter is an artist specializing in large-scale public installations ranging from architectural sculpture to infrastructure design. Since 1973 he has completed scores of projects for public, corporate, and ecclesiastical clients. Working internationally from his studio in Portland, Oregon, USA, Carpenter collaborates with a variety of expert consultants, sub-contractors, and studio assistants. He personally oversees every step of each commission, and installs them himself with a crew of long-time helpers, except in the case of the largest objects, such as bridges.
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Harvest, 2016
Ed Carpenter
©Ed Carpenter
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Harvest, 2016
Ed Carpenter
©Ed Carpenter
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While an interest in light has been fundamental to virtually all of Carpenter’s work, he also embraces commissions that require new approaches and skills. This openness has led to increasing variety in his commissions and a wide range of sites and materials. Recent projects include interior and exterior sculptures, bridges, towers, and gateways. His use of glass in new configurations, programmed artificial lighting, and unusual tension structures have broken new ground in architectural art. He is known as an eager and open-minded collaborator as well as technical innovator.
Carpenter is grandson of a painter/sculptor, and step-son of an architect, in whose office he worked summers as a teenager. He studied architectural glass art under artists in England and Germany during the early 1970’s.
ED CARPENTER STUDIO
1812 NW 24th Avenue
Portland, Oregon USA 97210
+1 (503) 224-6729
info@edcarpenter.net
http://www.edcarpenter.net
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Click here to download the file "EdCarpenter_resume.pdf".
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