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Creative Additions: Adding Art into the Built Environment

Creating artwork for outdoor locations and public places requires a different set of conceptual and technical skills than installing it in a gallery. Whereas a gallery functions like a pristine laboratory, the built environment is overwhelming in its sensorial competition. Getting an artwork not to be absorbed within the visual fabric is difficult enough, let alone designing it to function as a welcome addition to a site. In this lecture, Adam Frelin will be showing examples of his own and other's artworks to illustrate the power and pitfalls of public art.

Adam Frelin (b.1973, Grove City, PA) has shown widely at venues such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and College Art Association. Frelin has completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Ucross Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, and Yaddo, among others. He has published two books of photography and has had several public artworks commissioned throughout the world. Most notably, he and his team were awarded a $1 million Public Art Challenge grant through Bloomberg Philanthropies to be lead artist on Breathing Lights, a multi-city temporary art installation that involves illuminating abandoned buildings with a breathing effect created with light.

Frelin received a BFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and an MFA University of California, San Diego. Currently he is an Associate Professor of art at the SUNY University at Albany, and lives in Troy, NY.

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