Taking a cue from the familiar phrase, “This Is The Place,” the artwork places bronze X’s with facts about our community in the paving. Seats of Utah sandstone, with shapes tapering downward, “point” to the place and provide a link between the past and the present, or the here and now, and the future. Bronze crickets and grasshoppers inhabit the station, reminding us that these insects, though individually small, have had a significant role with both native and immigrant cultures in the past, which continues in the present and presumably into the future.
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A Hundred Bees
One hundred bronze bees are installed throughout the station’s canopy. Images of the Great Salt Lake represent the cultural and historic nature of this location and the significance of the City’s name, derived from this beautiful and unique lake. The windscreens were hand painted with vitreous paint and the glass was then fired, evoking the colors of the lake. Red and gray brick pavers on the surface of the platform have been laid in a wave pattern.
Bonnie Sucec is one of the most highly regarded modernist artists in Utah. She earned an MFA from the University of Utah, with earlier study at the California College of Arts & Crafts and Brigham Young University. She is also a teacher and arts activist, and she has been selected for several public art commissions in Utah. Sucec is represented by Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City.
Day Emil Christensen is a sculptor and mixed media artist. He graduated from BYU with a B.A. in Art and Design and a Master in Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 2008, Christensen was awarded a grant from the Utah Arts Council as part of the Individual Artists Services Grants program.
Great Salt Lake
Images of the Great Salt Lake represent the cultural and historic nature of this location and the significance of the City’s name, derived from this beautiful and unique lake. The windscreens were hand painted with vitreous paint and the glass was then fired, evoking the colors of the lake. Red and gray brick pavers on the surface of the platform have been laid in a wave pattern and a flock of bronze seagulls is perched atop the canopies.
Bonnie Sucec is one of the most highly regarded modernist artists in Utah. She earned an MFA from the University of Utah, with earlier study at the California College of Arts & Crafts and Brigham Young University. She is also a teacher and arts activist, and she has been selected for several public art commissions in Utah. Sucec is represented by Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City.
Day Emil Christensen is a sculptor and mixed media artist. He graduated from BYU with a B.A. in Art and Design and a Master in Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 2008, Christensen was awarded a grant from the Utah Arts Council as part of the Individual Artists Services Grants program.
Light and Motion
The panels in the windscreens become “jewels,” reflecting a timeless sense of civic pride and quality. Working with the twin themes of light and motion, the panels are fabricated with a rich combination of etched glass, fused glass, custom bevels and dichroic glass.
Anagrams – 106
Anagrams, by artists William R. Littig and Bernardo Flores-Sahagun, is a series of partial crossword puzzles placed at more than two dozen street corners throughout the Sugar House business district. The puzzles are integrated into the recently completed sidewalk and intersection upgrade, with the same type pavers used throughout the project. The words selected by the artists represent the rich history of Sugar House by naming people, places, stores and other features of the area. The artists interviewed long-time residents of Sugar House and visited the Utah State Historical Society to gather the information used in the project.
Guardians – 104
Closed Window
This series of etched glass panels in geometric designs that are lacquered on all inside surfaces in the arches over the equipment bay and the front door. The etched pattern represents the grid of the City that firefighters travel in the course of their jobs. The half inch space between the glass panels creates a shifting registration for the viewer and color occurs throughout from shadows, reflections in the glass and the open spaces.
Willy Littig is active in the local arts scene, beginning his career working with glass and branching out to other materials as appropriate for each commission.
Untitled – William R. Littig
This glass window was designed by Willy Littig for the Art Barn located in Reservoir Park. The Art Barn, which is home to the Salt Lake City Arts Council offices, was built in 1931. The Art Barn was built for and functioned as a community art center until the mid-1970’s.
In 1990 the Art Barn underwent a major renovation and included in the project were opportunities for 3 public art projects, including this work by Littig.
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