Nathan Green Comes Home for his First Outdoor Installation
PITTSBURGH - Schenley High School graduate Nathan Green returns to Pittsburgh for his first major outdoor sculpture installation at the Three Rivers Arts Festival. Dream Machine, a large-scale interactive sculpture, incorporates an array of modified recreational equipment and playing field symbols. Dream Machine opens in Market Square on Friday, June 6, and will be on display through the Three Rivers Arts Festival until June 22, 2008. Exhibit hours are 12 noon to 8 pm daily.
"It's a Festival tradition to present a major public art installation each year," said Festival Executive Director Elizabeth Reiss. "Nate's project embodies two major themes of the 2008 Festival: using materials reclaimed from the waste stream for creative endeavors, and, in a related sense, celebrating the sense of 'do-it-yourself' that is emerging as a theme for contemporary art."
The centerpiece of Dream Machine is an enlarged merry-go-round which functions as a dream machine - a stroboscopic flicker that produces visual stimuli - when it is spun. As the merry-go-round spins, it produces sounds from a modified piano. The sculpture includes additional mechanically-related kinetic objects, which viewers can manipulate to effect the experience of the sculpture. All of the sculptures moving or electrical pieces are either human- or solar-powered.
"I have experimented with similar approaches to interactive sculpture in the past, but only in the context of a private gallery space," said Green. "Working in an outdoor public plaza is an entirely new challenge. This is my first opportunity since high school to present my work in my home town, so I feel privileged to be a part of the Three Rivers Arts Festival."
Green was born in Bennington, Vermont, and moved to Pittsburgh with his family at age 6. He attended Schenley High School and was a frequent participant in Manchester Craftsman's Guild programs. He attended Carnegie Mellon Pre-College programs throughout high school and the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts in 1999. Green earned his bachelor's degree in 2005 from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, studying art and German. In summer 2007, he was awarded an artist's residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, and this past fall completed his first solo exhibition in New York City. Green currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
This exhibition is generously supported by the Fine Foundation.
Calendar Listing
The Three Rivers Arts Festival presents Dream Machine, an interactive sculpture installation by Nathan Green. June 6-22, 2008. Market Square.
About the Three Rivers Arts Festival
The mission of the Three Rivers Arts Festival is to connect the community to the arts. The 49th annual Three Rivers Arts Festival runs from June 6-22, 2008. For more information, call the Festival at 412.281.8723 or visit our website www.artsfestival.net.
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"It's a Festival tradition to present a major public art installation each year," said Festival Executive Director Elizabeth Reiss. "Nate's project embodies two major themes of the 2008 Festival: using materials reclaimed from the waste stream for creative endeavors, and, in a related sense, celebrating the sense of 'do-it-yourself' that is emerging as a theme for contemporary art."
The centerpiece of Dream Machine is an enlarged merry-go-round which functions as a dream machine - a stroboscopic flicker that produces visual stimuli - when it is spun. As the merry-go-round spins, it produces sounds from a modified piano. The sculpture includes additional mechanically-related kinetic objects, which viewers can manipulate to effect the experience of the sculpture. All of the sculptures moving or electrical pieces are either human- or solar-powered.
"I have experimented with similar approaches to interactive sculpture in the past, but only in the context of a private gallery space," said Green. "Working in an outdoor public plaza is an entirely new challenge. This is my first opportunity since high school to present my work in my home town, so I feel privileged to be a part of the Three Rivers Arts Festival."
Green was born in Bennington, Vermont, and moved to Pittsburgh with his family at age 6. He attended Schenley High School and was a frequent participant in Manchester Craftsman's Guild programs. He attended Carnegie Mellon Pre-College programs throughout high school and the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts in 1999. Green earned his bachelor's degree in 2005 from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, studying art and German. In summer 2007, he was awarded an artist's residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, and this past fall completed his first solo exhibition in New York City. Green currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
This exhibition is generously supported by the Fine Foundation.
Calendar Listing
The Three Rivers Arts Festival presents Dream Machine, an interactive sculpture installation by Nathan Green. June 6-22, 2008. Market Square.
About the Three Rivers Arts Festival
The mission of the Three Rivers Arts Festival is to connect the community to the arts. The 49th annual Three Rivers Arts Festival runs from June 6-22, 2008. For more information, call the Festival at 412.281.8723 or visit our website www.artsfestival.net.
Download this press release
