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Five new public art pieces introduced here

BY KRISTINE CANNON

Progress Staff Writer

Southern Scottsdale welcomed �ive new, vibrant public art pieces this summer, thanks to IN FLUX and Scottsdale Public Art. As part of IN FLUX Cycle 9, a Valleywide temporary art initiative, the new installations were created by Phoenixbased artists. Starting at Scottsdale Road and Roosevelt Street, the northeast corner is now home to Daniel Mariotti’s cast bronze sculpture “Meditation on Fragmented Space.” With this piece, Mariotti “offers viewers the opportune to pull one’s self out of their reality into something different.” One mile north, on the northeast corner of Scottsdale Road and Oak Street, is “#bluewing,” a ceramic-tiled, wingshaped, Instagram-friendly work of art created by Cherie Buck-Hutchison and her husband, Curtis Hutchison. “I was inspired not only by artists’ use of the color blue but also by the saturated blue of high-elevation skies in the Southwest and the metaphorical, mythical wings from art history,” Buck-Hutchison said. And at Miller Plaza, shoppers will spot John David Yanke’s colorful, complementing trio: “Secondary Effusion,” made with mattress spring units; “Stored Echoes,” with coil springs and spiral wire; and “To Atone,” created with marine-grade plywood and water-based enamel. “I enjoy recycling the original intent within the designs in order to reveal the beauty of the design,” Yanke said. “This happens both through the use of vibrant hues, whose value and intensity appear to change with ambient lighting, and the overall con�iguration,

Mariotti agrees. “It’s such a good opportunity that helps artists understand what public art can look like with the guidance that is needed to begin,” Mariotti said. Yanke added that IN FLUX is a “tremendous vehicle for highlighting local artists’ works.” IN FLUX Cycle 9 includes 12 artworks in six cities across the Valley, including one in Chandler, one in Glendale, one in Phoenix, two in Peoria, and two in Tempe. Cycle 9 also originally included six performances, but they were postponed due to COVID-19. “I hope this program continIN FLUX Cycle 9 includes works by Daniel Mariotti, John David Yanke, and Cherie BuckHutchison and Curtis Hutchison. (Scottsdale Arts) ues to grow and exhibit new artists just beginning in the public sphere,” Mariotti said. art, economic development IN FLUX was created by and property management Kirstin Van Cleef, former associate diorganizations throughout rector of Scottsdale Public Art, who left the Valley. Arizona – and the initiative – in 2015 as Now in its ninth cycle, IN FLUX Cycle 6 installations began. the initiative provides op“I always cared deeply about the iniportunities for local artists tiative being a collaborative and everto create site-speci�ic, temevolving space to respond to any context porary public art installaour communities found themselves in, tions. and I am humbled to see it continue from Public art coordinator for a distance to this day,” Van Cleef said. Scottsdale Public Art Tanya Installed July 1, IN FLUX Cycle 9’s Galin calls IN FLUX a good public artworks will be available for way for local artists to “get viewing through March 31, 2021. They their feet wet” in the public are not part of the City of Scottsdale’s art process. permanent art collection. “We hope they walk away “I am certain that seeing IN FLUX The mosaic work of “#bluewing” by Phoenix-based with a better understandcarry on is one of the most ful�illing exartists Cherie Buck-Hutchison and Curtis Hutchison reing of the steps it takes to periences I will ever have, and I am endfl ects the surroundings of its location on the northeast corner of Scottsdale Road and Oak Street. (Scottsdale Arts) complete a public art piece lessly grateful for this and the timely rewith a municipality,” Galin minder it brings that we can make good which produces ever-changing, intrigusaid. “And we hope it enthings when we keep creating and come ing shadows.” courages them to apply to other public together,” Van Cleef said. IN FLUX is designed to bring together art projects.” Information: INFLUXaz.com