The public art of Marek Walczak & Wes Heiss

Author: marek

  • LOST & FOUND

    LOST & FOUND

    The Gowanus Canal is a condensed memory, of work, of tugboats and barges, of labor and intense movement.

  • NOW : THEN

    NOW : THEN

    Video portraits of visitors to the Wishard Hospital from the present and the past.

  • SITELINES

    SITELINES

    Nine sculptures based on iconic buildings in Philadelphia. Each has a story to tell, each a different philosophy of city and social life.

  • SHIELDS PARK

    SHIELDS PARK

    The sculpture with six viewpoints.

  • CLAYTON COLE

    CLAYTON COLE

    The name of the neighborhood ahead of you is only clearly readable as you walk towards it.

  • AAD Faculty Show

    AAD Faculty Show

    Wes Heiss’s exhibition at the Art, Architecture and Design Faculty Exhibition.

  • SHADOWALK

    SHADOWALK

    Local school children drew shadows of palms and we translated those drawings onto perforated shadow-casting panels.

  • HEDGEWORK

    HEDGEWORK

    Hedgework is an urban landscape intervention that takes the form of a sentient hedgerow.

  • SHAKER

    SHAKER

    Our first sculpture that plays with anamorphosis, where the form makes sense from only one point of view.

  • SHADOWALK-construction

    SHADOWALK-construction

    Derived from Indio’s history with date palms, this ¾ mile shade structure on Jackson St. joins the new CV Link to the new park.

  • MARKERS

    MARKERS

    Four pieces along a new one mile long park in the Clayton and Cole neighborhoods, Denver.

  • AGRIKULTURA

    AGRIKULTURA

    What is our relationship to the land?

  • ABOUTFACE

    ABOUTFACE

    AboutFace is a record of a time & place, a way to eulogize the present & look forward.

  • STORYTIME

    STORYTIME

    A playful clock of sorts, the piece changes its content every minute.

  • STAPLEFIELD

    STAPLEFIELD

    A dynamic model that expresses the state of the building & its occupancy.

  • FACEWALL

    FACEWALL

    Facewall is made up of 1000 profiles of community residents & students, faculty, staff at University of California, Chico.

  • ANIMAL EYES

    ANIMAL EYES

    Animal sculptures are placed throughout the Berry Center, each highlight a specific Wyoming ecosystem.

  • 14TH STREET OVERLAY

    14TH STREET OVERLAY

    Each instrument combines a real-time view of the streetscape with an ‘overlay’ slide that adds an additional narrative.

  • THOUGHTBALLOONS

    THOUGHTBALLOONS

    With community sourced material, the piece generates amusing & profound conversations.