Williams Enviro Art

2 For a sense of scale, note the herd of cattle grazing just above the grid, and slightly to the left. The installation covered an area Photo © Craig Collins equal to 8 football fields, and required 12 miles of electrical wiring. LUMINOUS EARTH GRID / SOLANO COUNTY, CA © Stuart Williams . All rights reserved. “It’s like a computer generated image come to life… I’m interested in contrasts; natural and man made, real and surreal, old and new. This project is intended to be a poetic vision of technology and nature in harmony. The glowing green grid can be seen as a wire frame icon of computer imaging technology, which in this ‘real life,’ 10 acre incarnation, gently melds with the flowing shape of a lovely landscape... a dream-like vision of symbiotic unity.” — Stuart Williams (details on next page)

3 Photo © Craig Collins LUMINOUS EARTH GRID / SOLANO COUNTY, CA © Stuart Williams . All rights reserved. ROLE: Creative concept, art direction, design, project management, public relations, fund raising, installation, and direction of photo documentation. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: “Luminous Earth Grid,” an array of 1,680 fluorescent lamps, which swept over 10 acres of undulating landscape near San Francisco, was a site-specific, environmental art installation by artist Stuart Williams. The massive project was co-sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts & Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. Over a five year period, Williams launched a rigorous fund raising campaign throughout California, and raised nearly half a million dollars to realize the project. RESPONSE: “It emanated a sense of the romantic sublime with its aura of surprise and wonder.” — PETER SELZ, FORMER CURATOR / MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK “It is unquestionably the most ambitious work of environmental art in the San Francisco Bay Area since Christo’s Running Fence. It is a joyful thing.” — ALLEN TEMKO, PULITZER PRIZE - WINNING CRITIC, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

8 60,000 Person-Hours of Labor. 200 Volunteers. 1 Mile Extension Cable to nearest Power. (Weight = 6 Tons) LUMINOUS EARTH GRID / SOLANO COUNTY, CA © Stuart Williams . All rights reserved. (Construction Photos)

11 Santa Monica, CA: Suspended in the palms. FIVE ORANGE SPHERES © Stuart Williams PROJECT DESCRIPTION: “Five Orange Spheres” was a series of 16 installations of six foot diameter spheres. The project spanned a time period of two and a half years, and included both urban and rural sites across the United States and Europe. RESPONSE: “a skillfully orchestrated union of the literal with the metaphorical… a triumph of the ephemeral.” Chateau d’Azay-Le-Rideau, France: Floating on the moat. — PANORAMA MESE MAGAZINE / MILAN, ITALY Cannon Beach, Oregon: On the beach and in the fog.

12 LIGHT PLUMES / CONVENTION CENTER / DENVER, CO COMMISSIONED PROPOSAL © Stuart Williams . All rights reserved. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: A kinetic light installation, on the scale of the cityscape, adds a unique new facet to the streetscape… and to the Denver Skyline. Precisely orchestrated gradations of colored light, slowly rise and fall, in unison, along the base of the exterior columns. The rhythm of these rising and falling Plumes of light, emanating from the base of each column, plumes of light — like a heartbeat — lends “life” to the building facade… rhythmically rise and fall in unison. animating it… evoking a suggestion of breathing… and creating an aura of peacefulness, as though the building is in a state of relaxed meditation. Furthermore, the vivid washes of light rising from the base of the columns, suggest pulses of energy, emanating from some subterranean depth… seemingly counteracting the weight of the huge, hovering roof plane above.

13 FLOATING OCEAN RING / BIG SUR, CA © Stuart Williams . All rights reserved. PROPOSED PROJECT PROJECT DESCRIPTION: As though an immense jeweled necklace had been tossed into the sea, a circular ring of mirrored spheres, glistens in the sun, as it floats and bobs on the surface of the Pacific, just off the coast of Central California. Each hollow stainless steel sphere is highly polished to reflect the sun. The individual spheres together describe a perfect circle, half a mile in diameter, and are held in position by buoys that are achored to the sea floor.

14 “ORANGE WINDSOCK,” NICKELODEON / NEW YORK, NY © Stuart Williams . All rights reserved. COMMISSIONED PROPOSAL PROJECT DESCRIPTION: An urban-scale public art event serves as the centerpiece of a Nickelodeon public relations event. A 200 foot orange windsock is perched atop the apex of the Empire State Building. The monumental windsock, with its stunning visibility throughout Manhattan, and its fluid snaking motion, would seize the attention of millions.

15 “SEWING NEEDLE” / BIG SUR, CA © Stuart Williams . All rights reserved. PROPOSED PROJECT PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The “Needle” would be a precisely engineered replica of a sewing needle, 300 feet in length and six feet in diameter at its widest section. As though piercing a giant pin cushion, the Needle would spear the side of one of the folds in the hills, and then emerge from the other side. It would, in fact, be two separate cantilevered, triangulated aluminum trusses, acting as the skeletal support for a precisely formed, fine gage, polished titanium skin. Each cantilever, one on either side of a fold in the hills, would be in perfect alignment to create the impression of a single needle piercing all the way through the hill.

a • E N V I R O N M E N TA L A RT I S T • A R C H I T E C T • A RT D I R E C T O R • G R A P H I C D E S I G N E R stuart williams SUMMARY: Stuart Williams’ work as an environmental artist has been published and acclaimed around the globe. He is also an accomplished art director and designer, who holds a degree in architecture from the University of Michigan. His work has appeared in major journals around the globe, including Art in America, LIFE, Abitare (Milan), Stern (Hamburg), and France Soir (Paris). Peter Selz, former curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York has said of his work, “It emanates a sense of the romantic sublime with its aura of surprise and wonder.” EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: 1998 to 2008 Stuart Williams has served as an in-house creative director and art director for one of the oldest non-profits in New York City, functioning as a one-man, full-service design studio for a company of 180 individuals. • Corporate ID, all collateral design for large scale international events, publications, brochures, posters, banners, reports, logos, etc. • Exhibit design, display case design, 3-D wall elements, signage, and floor plans. 1982 – 2009 Stuart Williams Design, New York City: (Major Clients/Partial List) Nickelodeon — • Concept, Design and Production of 3-D signage/ Merit Award, New York Art Directors Club • Design and Production of Props for Nickelodeon On Air; Nick International; and Nick Latin America New York City Parks — • Art Direction, Site Plan and Props for “Easter Eggstravaganza 2000,” Bethesda Fountain, Central Park MTV — • Design of props and stage set components for Video Music Awards 1996 at Radio City Music Hall Levi Strauss — • Commissioned Proposals for a major PR Event in San Francisco HBO — • Art directed monthly HBO / Cinemax Program guide for 6 years overseeing all phases of design and production Esquire Magazine — • Art directed special feature sections, overseeing all phases of design and production PARTIAL CLIENT LIST: Museum of Modern Art, New York Panorama Mese, Milan Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department Stern Magazine, Hamburg MGM Studios, Los Angeles Goldman Sachs Corporation France Soir, Paris City College of New York Life Magazine Viking Press nyc

b • E N V I R O N M E N TA L A RT I S T • A R C H I T E C T • A RT D I R E C T O R • G R A P H I C D E S I G N E R stuart williams CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Artist /Project Manager/Publicist & Chief Fund Raiser (1992-93) for a monumental scale $500,000 environmental artwork, “Luminous Earth Grid,” in Solano County, CA: • Co-sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts & Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco • 8 football fields in total area; 12 miles of electrical wiring • 200 laborers; 10 electricians; 60,000 person hours of labor • 25 permits required from Solano County, and the State of California • “Unquestionably the most ambitious public artwork in the San Francisco Bay Area since Christo's ‘Running Fence.’ It is a joyful thing.” — ALLAN TEMKO, PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC/SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE • “It emanated a sense of the romantic sublime with its aura of surprise and wonder.” — PETER SELZ, FORMER CURATOR OF PAINTING & SCULPTURE/MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK AWARDS & GRANTS: 2003 Finalist/Minneapolis / Minneapolis Central Library 2003 Finalist/Seattle/Pro-Parks Project 1998 Public Art Commission — Los Angeles 1% for Art / North Hollywood Community Center 1996 Merit Award — New York Art Directors Club / “Nickelodeon Spheres” Project 1995 Finalist/New York City Public Art Program 1994 SECA Award Nominee / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1993 Grant — Pacific Gas & Electric; San Francisco 1993 Grant — Osram / Sylvania Corp. 1989 Sponsorship — New York Foundation for the Arts, New York City / “Luminous Earth Grid” Project WORK PUBLISHED / BROADCAST: ART WORK IN THE COLLECTIONS OF: 1994 Abitare Magazine, Milan, Italy Nickelodeon, New York City 1993 Art in America, New York MTV, New York City 1993 ABC Television / National News Bellevue Hospital, New York City 1993 Hong Kong Standard, Hong Kong MGM, Los Angeles 1982 Life Magazine, New York City of Los Angeles INVITED LECTURER: COMPUTER SKILLS: 1994 San Francisco Art Institute Quark Final Cut Pro 1993 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art InDesign PowerPoint 1993 University of California / Davis Photoshop MS Word Illustrator Acrobat EDUCATION: Bachelor of Architecture, with honors (graduated from 6 year program) The College of Architecture and Art University of Michigan, Ann Arbor nyc

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