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Finding the Way

March 9, 2015 by Salt Lake Public Art Program Leave a Comment

The Parley’s Park and Plaza project started out as a “lasting legacy” project of Parleys LDS Stake in 1997. The project resulted in the establishment of a landmark-mini park featuring the work of well-known Utah sculptor, Ed Fraughton. A literal sculptor with an academic background in design and human anatomy, Fraughton’s versatility covers a broad spectrum of human and animal subjects. He is primarily known for his epic monumental works and individual collector editions that often relate to the history of the American West.

The 8-foot bronze statue is of Parley Pratt, one of the historic characters from the days of the pioneers and Utah statehood. The statue stands atop a pile of huge granite boulders and depicts Pratt with a compass and transit, looking toward nearby Parleys Canyon, which is named after him. The monument was dedicated in 1998.

Picnic Shelter

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The redesign of Richmond Park included very active neighborhood participation. Dolinger was selected to work with neighborhood children – one group to come up with shapes and another group to paint the shapes – to enhance the canopy of the gazebo in the park. Dolinger is an experienced metalworker and worked off the design of the gazebo as a basis for incorporating the children’s images. The finished project is a series of colorful panels inserted under the roof of the gazebo.

Deadly Virtues – 37

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Utah glass artist, Douglas Soelberg, created this colorful curtain wall to be incorporated into the front the the Justice Courts Building. The work brings movement and color to the façade of the building, engaging passersby and welcoming employees and those who have business in the Justice Courts.

 

The Doll and Dare – 36

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The Doll and Dare

Like sunspots etching meaning
To the weather of our days,
Or rays of sunlight falling
With a shimmer shadow
Through the leaves of meadow trees

Like early winter morning hoarfrost
Clinging to the highest twigs
And branches, melting with the sun.
But staying crisp and crystalized
With the memory and mind.

Like children playing on the bench
Of summer gestures frozen
As we see them with their skirts
And shirts still there suspended
As the wind had left them –

Still as real and still as time
Which passes and as long as time
Shall be – the doll and dare
of childhood dye
The fabric of all later life.

Dennis Smith

Peace Cradle – 34

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“Dennis Smith is as much a philosopher as he is an artist. His work is a window into who he is and his views on life. His impressionistic style captures his exuberance for life and embodies his passion for transcendence—expressed through the spontaneity of children, reflections of the past, and hopes for the future.

“At the core of Dennis’ work is the spirit of the human soul. We often see this represented through the innocence of childhood. To Dennis, the child is a metaphor for life. Children’s lives, as they explore the world around them, parallel our lives as adults as we discover our identity in this universe. Each piece by Dennis Smith captures this spirit, still vibrant and alive, frozen in the moment of discovery.”

Courtesy of artist’s website.

Bonneville Reliquary II – 15

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The Bonneville Cutthroat Trout derives its name from the ancient Lake Bonneville, and is the Utah State Fish.  The trout are depicted swimming upstream not in annual spawn, but in a last retreat from disappearing vestiges of riparian ecosystem.  They commemorate the course of Parley’s Creek, now diverted underground by urban growth. As urban sprawl makes harder demands on the local ecosystem, the last remnants of biodiversity disappear unnoticed.

This is the second school of Cutthroats in the project. They are located in the long narrow median on the west side of the 1300 East 2100 South intersection. This location allows motorists to engage in this intimate artwork while waiting at the stop light. The first school of trout is located 2 blocks west at 2100 South 1050 East.

Bonneville Reliquary – 14

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Gerhart’s swimming Bonneville Cutthroat Trout, Utah’s state fish, commemorate the course of Parley’s Creek, now diverted underground by urban growth in Sugar House. The artist was originally commissioned for one “school” and later, asked to create another. The second school in installed on a median in a busy intersection and is eye level; easily viewed by drivers waiting for the traffic light to change.

Pythagoras – 13

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Dan Gerhart named this work – a series of interior wall pieces and an outdoor sculpture along the Jordan River Parkway – after the Greek philosopher, Pythagoras. With the design based on the mathematical laws inherent in the circle, square, and triangle, the artwork relates visually to the shield or badge that identifies police officers and philosophically to the Police Department’s work to maintain order in our community.

The mathematical theories of Pythagoras were one source of inspiration for Gerhart, as were a number of other systems of the natural order and its relationship to societal order. The Mayan calendar, based on the mathematical symmetries and the basic shapes of triangles, circles and squares, provided a foundation for the development of Gerhart’s work. Many cultures share a common language of these basic shapes, with the circle often the universal symbol for harmony and order.

The indoor works – “The Triangle,” “The Circle,” “The Square,” and “Theorem” – are fabricated of bronze cast by the artist in the lost-wax technique and a variety of wood veneers. The outdoor work, “The Sphere,” is fabricated of cast bronze and polished stainless steel. Shawn Porter assisted Dan Gerhart in the fabrication and installation of the work; Larry Wheeler fabricated the stainless steel elements of the outdoor work.

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