We're working on a really fun project right now: An interactive set of stabiles with interchangeable arms and hanging parts that will be on display at the Columbus Museum of Art.
The stabile bases are about 3 feet tall, and each will include 15 varying-sized arms and 32 shapes.
Here are the stabile bases, waiting patiently to be powder coated.
We just finished up another collaborative project with local mobile artist/glass worker extraordinaire, Leah Pellegrini. (See November 11, 2008 for the first collaboration.) The project included a set of four 8-foot-wide by 4-foot-tall mobiles. Leah designed the mobiles and created the glass shapes. We did the wire bending, balancing, packing, and shipping overseas to the Hong Kong International School.
If you’re in the Chicago area anytime before October, be sure to check out the Museum of Contemporary Art's Calder exhibit. And while you’re there, be sure to check out the gift shop for the Ekko Mobiles exhibit! Ok, "exhibit" might be an overstatement... Still, we’re honored to be in such good company.
Another blast from the past. Rather blasts from the past, both projects in Texas (and images shot by the same photographer).
The first mobile was created and installed in November 2008 for the North Austin Women Hospital. At the time, we struggled to capture images of the piece because of how it hung within the staircase, not fully visible from any vantage point. Ah, but leave it to a professional to pull out the fisheye lens.
And this is a mobile we completed for the San Antonio Children’s Hospital (May 5, 2009). Love this photo! (But frankly, anything would have been better than the pathetic iPhone photos we snapped at the install.)
In case you haven’t noticed, we've been on a mission to collect images of past projects. Here’s a mobile we created two summers ago (see August 21, 2008) for a client in Houston.
She had such an interesting design challenge: fit a floor-to-ceiling mobile in a little living room nook between two doorways–without getting in the way. While we were happy with our creation, we never saw how the mobile fit into the space...until now!
Our client for the Rapides Regional Medical Center project just sent along these fun photos of the completed lobby where we installed the massive mobile back in February. Call us biased, but we think the mobile looks great with the lobby’s bright color scheme and playful design elements.
We just got this images of the mobile we recently installed at the Ambassador Health System facility in Omaha. We love how it looks in its entryway atrium!
A Portland blogger did a great write up on local mobile artists, including yours truly.
It's no secret that our photography skills need some work. So for this picture, we're keeping it real. You get to see our attempt at a decent shot of our latest piece...with the shop in its full glory in the background.
This piece hangs 15 feet tall, and Matt is headed to Omaha next week to install it in an existing hospital's newly completed atrium lobby.
Four summers ago, back when Matt was a one-man shop working out of the garage of his townhome, he completed a mobile for Harpo Studios. The mobile looked beautiful, but unfortunately, these were the only images captured of the piece:
Cute, but not exactly portfolio worthy, right?
So imagine our surprise when just this week, we got these beautiful images of the piece in its real-life home at Harpo! Thanks Oprah & friends!
