Stuart Keeler
How We Feel About Public Art
Posted by May 20, 2010 0 comments
Stuart Keeler
Glad to hear the selections for Year in Review are going swimmingly. Curiuous to see what you and Fred come up with!........I have been thinking about your comments and I too agree that public art is alive and vital–simultanesouly, at this time our industry is currently in an important transition.
I believe that the audience and viewer engagement, participation with “public art” is shifting to one of where ideas, contemporary frameworks and conceptual experimentation is ripe for a new public engagement, yes - I am utopic in spirit,.... however there has been a move in attitude - I wonder if others would agree?....and it is time and many are ready for contemporary innovation and the impact of the artist to become more expressive. Without artists, there is no art in the public realm. Does there need to be a divide between studio aesthetics and great art in the public realm? How is a good concept judged "good"?
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