11th ANNUAL

Art on the Streets

Outdoor Art Competition
& Yearlong Exhibition
Presented by U.S. Bank
Nor’Wood Development Group
and G.E. Johnson

JuNE 26, 2009 - JULY 2010


THE ROGRAM
Art on the Streets is proudly presented by US Bank,
Nor’wood Development Group and G.E. Johnson
in concert with Downtown Partnership of Colorado
Springs and its affiliate, Community Ventures, Inc.
In its eleventh year, Art on the Streets is a yearlong
venue to showcase the works of new as well as
celebrated artists from across the country while
enlivening the Downtown Colorado Springs
cityscape and urban experience.
Art on the Streets has influenced purchase and
permanent installation of many of the nearly 50
works of public art in downtown Colorado Springs
— everything from life-size portrayals of city
founders to giant metal sunflowers in arterial
medians and contemporary, interactive, non-
representational works tucked into the urban l
andscape. More than 150 works of art have adorned
downtown Colorado Springs since Art on the
Streets began in 1999.
With a generous contribution of seed money
from Wynne Palermo, the Palermo Acquisition
Fund has been established to kick off fundraising
to purchase a new piece of sculpture to be gifted to
the City of Colorado Springs for permanent display.
Contributions can be made to Community Ventures
Inc., 111 S. Tejon, Ste. 309, Colo. Spgs., CO 80903.
UROR
Jan Schall, Ph.D.
Sanders Sosland Curator of
Modern and Contemporary Art
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, MO
Jan Schall, Sanders Sosland
Curator of Modern and
Contemporary Art, holds a
doctorate in art history from the University of Texas
at Austin and a master’s degree in art history from
Washington University in St. Louis. In 2000, Schall
organized the National Endowment for the Arts
Millennium Projects exhibition Tempus Fugit:
Time Flies and produced both its accompanying
catalogue and award-winning website. More
recently, she curated Kiki Smith: Constellation and
co-curated Sparks! The William T. Kemper
Collecting Initiative and the five-part New Media
Projects exhibition. Schall oversaw the renovation
and reinstallation of the Museum’s Kansas City
Sculpture Park and developed and implemented
both the program and installation of the modern
and contemporary collection in the expanded
Museum. Schall’s research has been supported by
grants from the National Endowment for the Arts,
the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD),
and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

rtistS’ STATEMENTS
Michael Brohman
Denver, CO
Journey - $65,000
Bronze
32” x 11’ x 39”
Michael’s work is at once beautiful and disturbing,
as are the theme’s that he explores. He tackles
themes from different angles, destroying the
concept of a single dominant narrative, throwing
them open to multiple interpretations. The result
offers simultaneous, often conflicting readings
where interpretations can never be still, but fluctu-
ate between degrees of insight and confusion.
Greg Brotherton
San Diego, CA
Watchtower - $18,000
Steel, recycled wood,
recycled bottle glass
8’ x 3’ x 18”
Greg’s sculptures juxtapose
mythology with pop culture
and invest ordinary objects with
fantastic, sometimes diabolical,
function. Watchtower was
inspired by human curiosity
and the wonderful mechanisms
curiosity drives. The form Greg
presents emerges from a disordered mechanical
history, often revealed through a
dystopian lens.
Jeremy Cooper
Lamar, CO
Morning Dove - $15,000
Painted mild steel
8’ x 4’ x 2’
The morning doves dancing their
way across the eastern plains on
their yearly migration inspired
this piece. With grace and poetic
motion, Morning Dove invites the
viewer to come and enjoy it.
Alex Corno
Milan, Italy
Airing - $38,000
Iron
7’ x 6’ x 4’
Airing originates from the circle,
in which and from which the other
two characterizing elements that
constitute this work intrude and
become part of, thus obtaining an effect of
lightness and an increase in the already disruptive
and fragmentary natural energy.
 Michael Orgel
J. Karl Lipscomb
Albuquerque, NM
Pittsburg, KS
Continuous Line in Space -
Bogart’s Vase - $4,800
$22,500
Exterior grade plywood,
Limestone, steel
stain, linseed oil
4’2” x 2’2” x 3’
3’ x 4’ round
The model for this work was a
The inspiration for this piece came from the
broken seashell and is based
challenge of making a traditional form from non-
on an endless edge that defines a central
traditional materials and of an unusual size. As with
negative space. Like natural water and wind-
any larger piece of artwork, the viewer has a
sculpted bridges, the forms found in broken parts
different level of interaction with this vase. Not
of a shell are not only beautiful, but also structurally
only is the form more imposing from its size, but
sound. Limestone gives body to this Continuous
the space both positive and negative becomes
Line in Space by joining its circuitous adjacent parts
much more interactive.
forming a delicate, spiraling, upper bridge portion
of the work, and a long curving channel through the
Nicholas S. Ordahl
lower body of the piece.
Colorado Springs, CO
The Wankel Bell - $62,800
Sue Quinlan
Steel, recycled materials,
Boulder, CO
architectural screen, concrete
Spearthrower Totem - $4,000
15’ x 8’ x 8’
White concrete and steel
Nature and natural processes
6’ x 9” x 4”
and man’s place in the natural
Sue’s work explores how artifacts
and technological world are all
can help people connect with
themes for Nick. The forms and
universal human experience and
workings of plants have been a major source of
explore its personal meaning. Her
delight and inspiration. “It amuses me to create
fusion of cultural icons illuminates the connection
metal forms reminiscent of delicate leaves and
we all share, including our joys and struggles with
flowers, which to me, draw attention to the superior
ubiquitous events like birth, death and human
design ability of nature.”
relationships.
 Jason Stillman
Mesa, AZ
The Evolution of Flora - $17,000
Steel
10.5’ x 6.5’ x 5’
Jason’s art tends to utilize form
as reflected in nature and the
human body, to evoke an
emotional and intellectual response in the viewer.
His work attempts to do this by challenging the
viewers notions about the imagery and objects
found in everyday experience.
Doyle Svenby
Manitou Springs, CO
A Girl’s Best Friend - $11,000
Steel and diamond
plated steel
7’ x 6’ x 3’3”
A ring symbolizes so many different things…A gift
of love, a new beginning, an eternal bond? Doyle
hopes that when viewing this piece, one of those
thoughts comes to mind.
Tim & Rick Upham
Fort Collins, CO
Red Springs - $28,000
Stainless steel and flat glass
marble – 18’ tall
Tim’s concept for Red Springs
started with Colorado Springs’
earlier name of Fountain Colony
and the existence of hot springs.
The desire to create a spring or
fountain from stainless steel and
red glass marbles came
from the Spanish translation
of Colorado.
Bill Vielehr
Boulder, CO
Metal Response - $75,000
Cast and fabricated aluminum
Three 12’ tall columns
Bill’s sculptures are drawings
in wax cast into aluminum or
bronze. “Drawing is integral to my
sculptures. My drawings on paper are part of the
process.” The abstract markings invite the viewer
to engage in the act of contemplation, imagination
and discovery of broad ideas.
Christopher Weed
Colorado Springs, CO
Paper Clips - $75,000
Powder coated steel
tubing
23’ x 15’ x 6”
Precariously balanced,
these iconic sculptures are imbued with a universal
familiarity – one that is both accessible and
striking, imprinting upon the viewer’s eye long
past the viewing itself.
 ST. VRAIN

xhibition 1
A

BOULDER
presented by
U.S. Bank, Nor’wood Development Group, B
and G.E. Johnson 2 PLATTE

A Michael Orgel Continuous Line in Space C D

B Greg Brotherton Watchtower 3 4 5 6 7

C Bill Vielehr Metal Response BIJOU

D Nick Ordahl The Wankel Bell 8

E Jeremy Cooper Morning Dove

9
F Alex Corno Airing
10 11 KIOWA
G Karl Lipscomb Bogart’s Vase 12 13 16 17
H Tim Upham Red Springs 14 15

I Doyle Svenby A Girl’s Best Friend 18 19

J Jason Stillman The Evolution of Flora 22 24 25 27 H 29 PIKES PEAK
K Michael Brohman Journey 21 23 F 26 G 28
20
L Christopher Weed Paper Clips
M Sue Quinlan Spearthrower Totem E I

COLORADO AVE
31 35 38
L 39
32
CASCADE

NEVADA
40

WEBER
TEJON

J 41
36 42 46
33
K 43
45
37

34 44
O

VERMIJO
CIMIN

30

COSTILLA

CIMMARON
M

MORENO
 Additional Public Art In Downtown
1 Celebration Don Green
2 General William Jackson Palmer 26 Double Eagle Jim McCain
Nathan Dumont Potter
3 Rusty Doyle Svenby
4 Cubicle Cactus Kat & Bob Tudor
5 Uncle Wilber Kat & Bob Tudor
6 Bella and the Bug Louise Peterson
7 Sister City - Fujiyoshida, Japan (five components)
8 Trailblazer Fred Darpino
9 The Catbird Seat Bill Noland
10 W
 hachasae (what you see - obelisk) Concrete
Couch (artists working with organizations, business-
es, and volunteers to develop outdoor art projects)
11 El Dorado XV Gary Slater
12 Check It Out Jerry Boyle
13 The Secret Garden Mark Lundeen
14 Orpheus Edgar Britton
15 Jazz Alice Ann Ochs
16 Latvian Freedom Fountain Ansis Berzins
17 Stumped Doyle Svenby
18 Spring Bouquet Gene Adcock
19 Rhea’s Box Chris Weed
20 Superstein Bell Tower Don Green
21 SunflowerChris Weed
22 Bison “Bison Americanus” Richard Jagoda
23 The Range Riders Rusty Phelps
24 Grizz II Richard Jagoda
25 Hank (the Cowboy) Rusty Phelps
27 Spencer Penrose Avard Fairbanks
28 Pillars Through Time Sue Quinlan
29 Winfield Scott Stratton Nellie Verne Walker
30 C
 ontinuum - Bill Burgess,
The Julie Penrose Fountain David Barber
31 Watermelon Chris Weed
32 My Surreal World Chris Weed
33 H.D. (Humpty Dumpty) Kimber Fibiger
34 Rearing Horse Fountain Don Green
35 The Dance James Nathan Muir
36 El Paso County Mural Ken Bernstein
37 Zebulon Pike Charles Rockey and
Clyde Doney
38 Pendulum Clock Starr Kempf
39 Solar Bench Nick Ordahl
40 William Seymour Stephanie Huerta
41 D
 ominico T. Venetucci Fred Darpino
(aka The Pumpkin Man)
42 Katharine Lee Bates John Lajba
43 P
 ioneers Museum Keystones
(38 adorn the 1903 former El Paso County
Courthouse) Greenlee & Sons stonemasons
44 End of an Era George Lundeen
45 Thinking It Over Betty Sabo
46 Follow the Setting Sun Harriet Lee
 Art on the Streets
presented by U.S. Bank
Nor’wood Development Group
and G.E. Johnson

ROGRAM SPONSORS

Presenting Sponsors Stuart & Barbara Dodge
U.S. Bank David & Judith Finley
Nor’Wood Development Dolores Fowler
G.E. Johnson Betty Francis
Elaine Freed
Supporting Sponsors Hunter & Carolyn Frost
($2,000) John & Peggy Fuller
Esther Beynon & Alfred Larry & Barbara Gaddis
Metzger Carlton Gamer
Donald & Barbara Gazibara
Honorary Sponsors Mary Alice & Samuel Hall
($1,000-$1,500) Dorothy Harman
Robert & Joan Donner William & Nancy Hochman
Kate & Ben Faricy The Kathleen Horrigan Hybl
Kris & Patrick Faricy Fund of the Pikes Peak
Lindsay & Joanna Fischer Community Foundation
The Margaret & Al Hill Mr. & Mrs. Irving Howbert
Family Foundation Sara & Robert Howsam
The Webb Family Fund of Richard Celeste & Jacqueline
the Pikes Peak Lundquist
Community Foundation, Kenneth & Sandra Jaray
Barbara Webb Elizabeth M. Kane
Shirley Killeen
Contributing Sybil & William Klein
Sponsors ($500) John & Carol Kleiner
Elliot Cohn & Cynthia Terry & Elizabeth Lilly
Chartier-Cohn Jan & T. Mahony
Kirkpatrick Family Fund Jan Martin
Katherine H. Loo Wayne and Mary Mashburn
Mary Kay Murphy & John Dr. James & Myra McCoy
Patrick Michael Murphy McDivitt Law Firm
Robert & Marianna McJimsey
Friends of Art on the Mary Ellen McNally
Streets (Under $500) Mountain Chalet
Marjory Abbott Susan B. Mulvihill
Tuck & Liz Aikin Brooke Bower & Richard
Richard & Sally Bean Nehring
Maria & Charles Berry Next Level Development
John Boddington Dick & Judy Noyes
Rick & Kathleen Ricker Urban Strategies
James & Eulalie Ringe WEM Investment Co.
Richard & Charlotte Rixon Julia & Matt Wills
Murray & Betty Ross Judith Wray
Mr. & Mrs. John Rowsey Lana Yeakel
Raphael Sassower
Nolan & Sharon Schriner In-Kind Contributions
Stephen & Joyce Schuck Antlers Hilton Hotel
Sparks Willson Borges Brandt Phantom Canyon
& Johnson, P.C. Colorado Springs Utilities
Dr. & Mrs. James Strang Fine Arts Center
Allan Lazrus & Suzanne Murphy Constructors
Macaulay Nosh
Lauren Tyson Pikes Peak Center
Founded by U.S. Bank and supported by Nor’wood
Development and G.E. Johnson, Art on the Streets is
intended to stimulate conversation and encourage
people to participate in art. You may get involved by:
Calling the Downtown Partnership at (719) 886.0088
E-mailing comments about specific pieces or the
program to:
info@downtowncs.com
Additional maps available for download at
downtown80903.com or by calling the Downtown
Partnership. Art may be purchased by calling the
Downtown Partnership.
COMMUNITY
VENTURES

Cate & Tim Boddington Peak Performance Physical

Stephen & Jean Bodman Therapy
Gary & Anne Bradley Joseph & Judith Pickle
Dwight & Sue Brothers Rich Designs
John & Barbara Budd
Dr. Jane Cauvel