Green Line Public Art Tour: I-205
7 artists were selected to create a wayfinding sculpture at each of the MAX stations along I-205, guided by the unifying theme of "Signposts, Symbols and Settlement Stories." In addition to the sculptures, each station features a windscreen glass design and colorful, glass-tiled shelter columns.
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Tall and Fallen, 2009
Artist
Anne Storrs
Location
SE Main St Station
Description
The fan-shaped leaf of the ginkgo tree inspired Anne Storrs to create Tall and Fallen. Tall consists of seven abstracted ginkgo leaves cast in concrete and stacked inside four stainless steel poles. Fallen, constructed with the same leaves appearing singly or in pairs, suggests the gingko trees' fallen leaves.
Sky to Earth, 2009
Artist
Carolyn Law
Location
SE Division St Station
Description
Sky to Earth, by Carolyn Law, is a vivid sky blue fence that rides the visual edge between the light rail tracks on one side and the expansive topography of the surrounding land along the other side. The artwork's flowing and changing sculptural line shifts between solid and transparent, activating the site and the experience of MAX riders.
Money Tree, 2009
Artist
Valerie Otani
Location
SE Powell Blvd Station
Description
Valerie Otani created a contemporary Money Tree to symbolize the revitalization of the neighborhood and hope for the prosperity of the new immigrant communities. The overall form evokes the Douglas fir, and each branch takes its design from traditional folk art of cultures living in the neighborhood.
Shared Vision, 2009
Artist
Suzanne Lee
Location
SE Holgate Blvd Station
Description
Lanterns are popular festival decorations associated with gaiety and rejoicing, and are reminders of the security of a light in the window. By using light as a metaphor for expanded awareness, Suzanne Lee's Shared Vision represents prosperity as the richness of positive social interaction and communication—the very essence of neighborhood.
Lents Hybrids, 2009
Artist
Brian Borrello
Location
Lents Town Center/SE Foster Rd Station
Description
Brian Borrello's Lents Hybrids is a series of spiraling plant forms with "buds" that generate energy through a hybrid system of wind and solar generators. The pieces are evocative of the native long grasses that may have once grown near the station area, while the buds are symbolic of the unfolding beauty and potential for the Lents neighborhood.
Johnson Creek Watershed, 2008
Artist
Brian Borrello
Location
SE Flavel St Station
Description
With Johnson Creek Watershed Map, Brian Borrello reminds riders and neighbors of their regional watershed, one of the major inland watercourses of Portland. The five circular medallions in stainless steel and pigmented cement represent the five tributaries that comprise the surrounding Johnson Creek Watershed.
Waving Post, 2009
Artist
Pete Beeman
Location
SE Fuller Rd Station
Description
The SE Fuller Rd station is located in a section of the Con Battin neighborhood that was isolated from the rest of the neighborhood by the freeway in the late 1970s. Pete Beeman's Waving Post invites viewers to turn the crank, bring the sculpture to life and wave to the neighbors.
Two elements from Chain of Life, 2008 – Twisted Ribbon and Pioneer Quilts
Artist
Richard C. Elliott
Location
Clackamas Town Center Transit Center
Description
The Chain of Life, by Richard "Dick" Elliott, includes patterns found in indigenous basketry, pioneer quilts and the spiral shape of DNA. The work appears in the brick pavers of the station platform, in the cut steel designs of the walkway guardrails and in windows of the parking garage elevator shaft.