CultureNOW - Aquaria: Larry Kirkland and Broward County Public Art & Design Program

Aquaria

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Larry Kirkland has collaborated with design professionals and community leaders to create meaningful places throughout the U.S. including works for The Brown University Alpert School of Medicine, Pennsylvania Station, New York City, The City of Denver, The California Museum of Science, Los Angeles and the Federal Courthouses in both Sacramento and Los Cruzes, the American Red Cross Headquarters, and the National Academies of Science, Washington DC. His current projects include a collaboration to create a Memorial to Disabled Veterans in Washington DC. Outside the USA he has installations including: Putra World Trade Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Hong Kong Central Station and Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan. Kirkland has been a recipient of a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and awarded Alumni of the Year from his alma mater, Oregon State University. He is a member of the GSA Design Excellence Peer review panel and a council member of the Public Art Network of the Americans for the Arts.

Nancy Princenthal, in the introduction to Natural Histories, a monograph on Kirkland by Architecture Interiors Press, writes: "His projects, all conceived for the public realm, take a breathtaking range of information -- historical, scientific, social, and cultural -- and make it solid. More than that, they make it luminous, surprising, and endlessly engrossing, a source of challenge and sustenance, provocation and reward... he is a cultural conservationist, in a way that has parallels among those who would preserve the natural environment. He works hard to see that the memory of achievements in the arts – and in the sciences, and political thought – is not lost. Among Kirkland’s most sustaining principles is sheer generosity, a conviction that all communities deserve to challenged rather than mollified, and that visual satisfaction is a rich but not simple pleasure.
Mr. Kirkland has extensive experience on public art selection and review panels. He has written art master plans for the Sacramento Convention Center expansion, the City of Denver Civic Center Office Building and the National Academy of Sciences. As a member of the master plan design team for New Jersey Transit 45 mile Hudson-Bergen Line, Kirkland helped establish an innovative arts inclusion for emerging and local artists, designers and craftsmen.

Kirkland has been a recipient of a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and awarded Alumni of the Year from his alma mater, Oregon State University. He is a member of the GSA Design Excellence Peer review panel and a council member of the Public Art Network, Americans for the Arts.

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Artist
Larry Kirkland

Collection
Broward County Public Art & Design Program

Dates

Installed, 2011

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Description

The artwork, entitled Aquaria, on the ceilings of the two skybridges connecting the building and garage, transforms these utilitarian corridors into an unforgettable experience for Convention Center visitors. It evokes the memorable experience of being immersed in a constantly moving school of colorful tropical reef fish and reinforces the aquatic theme already established by the existing sailfish fountain visible through skybridge window. The artwork consists of countless stainless steel fish s...

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Location

Broward County Convention Center
1950 Eisnhower Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316
United States

North Skybridge between parking garage and Convention Center

Nearby Items

Sailfish in Three Stages of Ascending		13 feet
Fata Morgana		472 feet
Calypso and Waves		0.3 miles
Reflections		0.9 miles
Evergreen Cemetery		1.2 miles
Dr. Willard Van Ordsel King House		1.6 miles
Dockside		1.6 miles