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The Last Ice Project is a memorial to the melting ice — the creation of a sacred space to contemplate and connect with the beauty and importance of what is vanishing, and in this contemplation, the opportunity to discover the courage, the ideas, the collective strength to reverse the melting — to be part of the resurrection. The ice will serve as both a relic of significance, and a cultural ambassador, to signify awa

Murmuration 2017 Materials: Steel, Cable and Patina  Dimensions: 9’ 7” x 13’ 8″

Soulevement 2017 Materials: Steel, Cable and Patina Dimensions: 9’ 7” x 13’ 8″

Fine Balance (A Site-Specific Sculpture for Water Street in Petaluma, California) As one approaches Water Street, mysterious figures will be visible in the distance. A curious image of five Cast Iron Victorian claw and ball bathtubs, seventeen to twenty four feet balancing on thin stilts, as if ambling in mid step along the waterfront. Their presence suggests that something unusual is happening here. While the artwor

“… and my room still rocks like a boat on the sea… (Caruso’s Dream) Brian Goggin with Dorka Keehn 2012-2014 Hovering delicately above the sidewalk, a sculptural canopy of angled and overlapping glass and steel pianos is held aloft in the eaves along the building’s frontage. These pianos, made from salvaged factory windows, are the building blocks of a physically commanding monumental sculpture. Brimming with en

Climbing Frenzy 1993 (Site-specific installation for the SF Arts Commission Gallery) In “CLIMBING FRENZY”, a tornado of tables furiously climb over each other. These tables, intent on their freedom, link their cherry-bowed legs into a ladder, eighteen feet of twisting and writhing acrobats. Arching towards the gallery’s skylight in a helix-like pattern, the Queen Anne tables hover over the viewer. The scene is dream-

Kohler & Chase New York 1993-2007 (Installed at the Djerassi Artist residency 2007) The fusion of two disparate and yet optically consonant objects, here hinging on the insignia “KOHLER & CHASE” NEW YORK provides at once the origin of the instrument and the stern of the vessel. This is the point of convergence where life passes between, and for this moment, unites, two distinct yet not entirely dissimilar obj

Metered Growth 1994 (Site-specific installation at Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco)  

     

Defenestration  1997-2015 (Site-specific installation on the corner of 6th and Howard St. in San Francisco) This multi-disciplinary sculptural mural involves seemingly animated furniture; tables, chairs, lamps, grandfather clocks, a refrigerator, and couches, their bodies bent like centipedes, fastened to the walls and window-sills, their insect-like legs seeming to grasp the surfaces. Against society’s expectations,

Body of Urban Myth 1997 (Permanent site-specific sculpture for Sheridan Plaza in the City of Palo Alto) “BODY OF URBAN MYTH” is comprised of a Hellenistic female figure hoisting a cast bronze washing machine heroically overhead as a cascade of water pours from the open door of the machine into the fountain below. The bronze sculpture is in an ongoing dialogue with its companions: two replicas of classical Greek male

Samson (Permanent site-specific sculpture for the Sacramento International Airport) 1998-Present Samson is two 23-foot tall pillars constructed of over 700 pieces of refurbished luggage dating from the conceptual genesis of the airplane to the present. At the base of the towers of luggage are large carts, designed to emulate the luggage carts that are used by personnel to haul suitcases from the airport to the airpla

Photogenesis 1999 (Permanent site-specific sculpture for North SeaTac Park, King County WA) Three lamppost trees sprout and stand tall, their filaments like night flowers glow, pulsing at different rates and in multiple colors. The trunks appear to be covered in a rusty bark. This unexpected artistic medium cultivates a non-sequitur, a juxtaposition between icon and material. Once a virgin forest, later cut with nati

     

LABYRINTH 2001-2004 (Permanent site-specific sculptural installation for Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, California) “LABYRINTH” is a site-specific sculptural installation of five portals, arranged on the Yahoo! Headquarters public park, as a web without path or boundary. The portals are full-sized, seemingly random open doors attached to their door frames, each standing in a different part of the grassy, forested landscape. Each

Desire for the Other 2004 On view: February 3, 2012 through July 8, 2012 at the San Jose Museum of Art. This project was sculpted by Brian Goggin with Al Honig and Tom Kennedy. It is part of the San Jose Museum of Art permanent collection. It’s a pandemoniacal moment, bounding off the floor, an amiable enough, elongated, many legged, yet crapulous couch wraps its craning ends bulbous pillows around an under stu

         

Speechless (A permanent site-specific sculpture for the Lafayette Library, Lafayette, California) 2008-Present A giant wavering bronze stack of paper rises. Had one taken a page from every book in the library collection, stacking one on top of the other, a stack of paper equivalent in height to this sculpture would result. The towering sculpture bends and teeters reaching precarious proportions. Wind has caught the t

Metaphorm An appreciation for the crafts of both the instrument builder and boat builder will be embodied in “METAPHORM,” a thirty-foot sea-worthy acoustic instrument which will be constructed in the style of a traditional lute. A wooden lapstrake boat thirty feet in length, will serve as the rounded base, a decking as the soundboard. The rosette, bridge, neck and headstock will be crafted in wood and scaled in propo

   

Meghalaya Natomas Fire Station 432014 – Present Meghalaya is an illuminated pedestrian passage at Natomas Fire Station 43 formed of stone-like roots that have overtaken a wooden archway. Design & Engineering The original archway appears as if it has long ago decomposed, leaving a lattice of roots to define its shape. As the roots wrap and twist about the vanished form, they become fire hoses, whose lifted n