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  • All Ball
    All Ball
    Artist: Chris Vorhees
    Date created: 2019
    Category: Indoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Mixed Media
    All Ball is a wall-hung sculpture made from cut-up, used basketballs.  Taking inspiration from the Hyatt Place/Hyatt House hotel’s location across the street from the Indiana Pacers’ home court, the artist inverts our typical knowledge of what a basketball looks like to use it as pure material and form.  The first basketballs put into production were by AG Spalding in 1891, and the historical development of that original form has come to help create multimillion dollar sports franchises that help shape lives and communities.  The checkerboard-like pattern calls up an impression of a very different game, one more cerebral than we believe basketball to be, and plays with our impressions of what we think we know about Indiana’s most popular sport.  The artwork was created as part of the hotel developer’s contribution to the City of Indianapolis’ Public Art for Neighborhoods program. Conceptual sculptor Chris Vorhees lives and works in Indianapolis.  Inspired by architecture and everyday objects, Vorhees looks for the “twist” on the familiar by breaking forms into their constituent parts and reassembling them into exciting new shapes. He is a multi-media artist and custom fabricator. A periodic collaborator with SIMPARCH artist collective with projects exhibited internationally at Deitch Projects (2001), Wexner Art Center (2001), Documenta XI (2002), Whitney Biennial (2004), Tate Modern (2005), and a USGSA permanent installation in Tornillo, TX (2014). Vorhees’s solo work has been shown at the Henry Art Gallery (2002); Bard College (2003); and the Illinois State University Art Gallery (2004). His work has also been shown in the New Center for Contemporary Art, Louisville (2007); the Herron School of Art and Design (2010): the Smart Museum of Art, U of Chicago (2010); and Sculpture Center, Cleveland (2015). He was awarded an Efroymson Fellowship Award in 2009 and a Graham Foundation Grant with Simparch (2012).  
  • Bounce
    Bounce
    Artist: Reagan Furqueron
    Date created: 2019
    Category: Indoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Paint; Steel
    From the artist:  “For many of us, our introduction to sports and games were made on the dirt and asphalt playgrounds of our youth. Bounce recalls memories of the beginning of the school year when a teacher or coach would empty a bag of newly purchased balls onto the court or field and they would roll and bounce everywhere. These experiences held the potential for both organized and made-up games and became the first time we scored goals, passed to each other, and made shots in baskets.  As a leading sports city in the United States, Indianapolis holds that same spirit for me–offering up a variety of sporting and athletic events for us all to enjoy and participate in. Each of these experiences holds the same potential as the bouncing balls–the ability to get us moving and inspired to imagine and play. It is my hope that when you look at Bounce, it brings back a childhood playground memory and encourages you to go out and have fun.” Reagan Furqueron is a visual artist and educator who resides in Indianapolis, IN. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Woodworking and Furniture Design from Rochester Institute of Technology. Reagan’s work balances traditional woodworking skills with metal sculpture fabricating techniques, and explores the interplay between the viewer and objects. He exhibits nationally and has work in the permanent collection of the Museum of Art and Design in New York, NY.
  • Full Court Press
    Full Court Press
    Date created: 2019
    Category: Indoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Lighting; Wood
    Taking inspiration from the Hyatt Place/Hyatt House hotel’s location across the street from the Indiana Pacers’ home court, the artist used reclaimed flooring from a demolished high school gymnasium to create abstract references to hoops, rims, free-throw lines, backboards, and other elements of a basketball court.  The interplay of the artist-created shapes with the remnants of floor striping and the addition of lighted elements is what gives this piece its excitement. The towering form spans the vestibule from one side wall, across the ceiling and down the other wall, creating a two-story experience with a distinctive presence both during the day and at night, visible through the glass vestibule door.  The artwork was created as part of the hotel developer’s contribution to the City of Indianapolis’ Public Art for Neighborhoods program. Conceptual sculptor Chris Vorhees lives and works in Indianapolis.  Inspired by architecture and everyday objects, Vorhees looks for the “twist” on the familiar by breaking forms into their constituent parts and reassembling them into exciting new shapes. He is a multi-media artist and custom fabricator. A periodic collaborator with SIMPARCH artist collective with projects exhibited internationally at Deitch Projects (2001), Wexner Art Center (2001), Documenta XI (2002), Whitney Biennial (2004), Tate Modern (2005), and a USGSA permanent installation in Tornillo, TX (2014). Vorhees’s solo work has been shown at the Henry Art Gallery (2002); Bard College (2003); and the Illinois State University Art Gallery (2004). His work has also been shown in the New Center for Contemporary Art, Louisville (2007); the Herron School of Art and Design (2010): the Smart Museum of Art, U of Chicago (2010); and Sculpture Center, Cleveland (2015). He was awarded an Efroymson Fellowship Award in 2009 and a Graham Foundation Grant with Simparch (2012).  
  • Shard Wall
    Shard Wall
    Artist: Elena Colombo
    Date created: 2019
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Fire; Steel
    From the artist:  “Shard Wall is a sculpture incorporating a fire element integral to the artwork concept.  It was designed to fuse with the industrial elements of the Hyatt architecture and rhyme with the strong silhouettes of the surrounding column structure, which can all be seen from the street. It also serves to establish an intimate corner within the urban, loft-like space that creates a true communal space in a way that only fire can do. The marriage of the hearth and home is an ancient one. A hotel is a person’s home on the road where any sense of warmth, both physical and emotional, can provide an experience that is highly coveted and memorable. Fire becomes an immediate destination, a meeting spot, a place to eat drink and be merry, or a calm place to decompress. Everyone has their own personal relationship with fire, and it is an endless loop of mesmerizing, ethereal sculpture. It is difficult to leave.”  Shard Wall was commissioned as part of the hotel developer’s contribution to the City of Indianapolis’ Public Art for Neighborhoods program. Elena Colombo is a classically trained sculptor & architectural designer who owns and operates COLOMBO CONSTRUCTION CORP, a design/build firm specializing in fire features, fire accessories, and custom site specific work: memorials, markers, water and wind features, and environmental sculpture. She creates work that extends architecture further into the landscape by creating forms which address our primal need for the elements earth, fire, water and wind; and that are at once ancient and modern; simple, and elegant. Colombo’s fire sculptures have been commissioned by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pebble Beach Golf Resort, Paul Hobbs Winery, and numerous hotels, spas, and resorts.  She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.  
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