Public Art
Production
From project design and fabrication to assembly and de-installation, our team is equipped with specialty tools and the expertise necessary for art handling and installation needs, working directly with architects, structural engineers, and rigging companies as needed to execute even the most complex projects.
Powerhouse Arts supports artists with the full life cycle of their projects, from conception and design, fabrication, assembly, maintenance and cleaning, installation, and ultimately de-installation. Powerhouse Arts offers these services as part of its Public Art fabrication program.
Our crew members have extensive experience installing complex artworks and all of our equipment is mobile and ready to be deployed to maximize efficiency in the field.
Powerhouse Arts’s portable installation equipment and materials set-up at The Shed in New York City.
Services:
— Project planning and logistics
— Fabrication
— Consulting
— Fabrication
— Consulting
— Art-handling
— Installation
— Maintenance and cleaning
— De-installation
— Installation
— Maintenance and cleaning
— De-installation
Featured Project
As part of an expansive exhibition of his work, titled Particular Matter(s), The Shed commissioned Tomás Saraceno to construct a new artwork, which would take full advantage of their soaring multipurpose space, The McCourt. Free the Air: How to hear the universe in a spider/web, was a 95-foot pressurized sphere, inside which visitors lay on a taught web-like net floating 40-feet above the ground, in order to experience vibrations derived from the movement of particles in the air, similar to the way spiders relay information through vibratory mechanisms.
Tomás Saraceno, Free the Air: How to hear the universe in a spider/web, 2022. Custom steel, wire net, wood, light, LFE, shakers, fog. Diameter: 95 feet. Artwork © Studio Tomás Saraceno. Commissioned by The Shed. Photo: Nicholas Knight. Courtesy The Shed.
Featured Project
As part of an expansive exhibition of his work, titled Particular Matter(s), The Shed commissioned Tomás Saraceno to construct a new artwork, which would take full advantage of their soaring multipurpose space, The McCourt. Free the Air: How to hear the universe in a spider/web, was a 95-foot pressurized sphere, inside which visitors lay on a taught web-like net floating 40-feet above the ground, in order to experience vibrations derived from the movement of particles in the air, similar to the way spiders relay information through vibratory mechanisms.
Featured Project
Times Square Arts commissioned Powerhouse Arts to project manage, fabricate, install, and deinstall Pamela Council’s A Fountain For Survivors exhibited as a public art activation in Times Square. A Fountain for Survivors is an exuberant life-affirming monument for survivors of all kinds. The work is Council’s first public artwork and their largest work to date.
A Fountain For Survivors by Pamela Council in Times Square. Image by Michael Hull.
Featured Project
Times Square Arts commissioned Powerhouse Arts to project manage, fabricate, install, and deinstall Pamela Council’s A Fountain For Survivors exhibited as a public art activation in Times Square. A Fountain for Survivors is an exuberant life-affirming monument for survivors of all kinds. The work is Council’s first public artwork and their largest work to date.
Featured Project
Artist Caroline Garcia approached Powerhouse Arts to fabricate the main structural component of The Headless Headhunt, a multimedia installation built to resemble a boxing ring that was commissioned as part of The Shed’s Open Call, on view from June 4 through August 1, 2021.
The Headless Headhunt with augmented reality (AR) text by Caroline Garcia at The Shed’s Open Call. Photography courtesy of the artist and The Shed
Featured Project
Artist Caroline Garcia approached Powerhouse Arts to fabricate the main structural component of The Headless Headhunt, a multimedia installation built to resemble a boxing ring that was commissioned as part of The Shed’s Open Call, on view from June 4 through August 1, 2021.
Featured Project
Powerhouse Arts’ Project Management team was hired to install Kenseth Armstead’s Boulevard of African Monarchs, at the corner of 116th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, in the heart of Harlem described by the artist as “a hub of African excellence in America.”
Detail: Boulevard of African Monarchs, 10’x10’x15’, Aluminum Plate & Shoe Polish, Harlem, NY, 2020. Photo by Liz Ligon
Featured Project
Powerhouse Arts’ Project Management team was hired to install Kenseth Armstead’s Boulevard of African Monarchs, at the corner of 116th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, in the heart of Harlem described by the artist as “a hub of African excellence in America.”
Featured Project
The Powerhouse Arts Project Management team assembled and installed the first model of Agnes Denes’ Probability Pyramid—Study for Crystal Pyramid from 1976. The sculpture was commissioned by The Shed for the artist’s retrospective exhibition Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates curated by Emma Enderby, which was on view from October 2019 through March 2020.
Installation view: Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, The Shed, New York, October 9, 2019 – March 22, 2020. Photo by Dan Bradica, courtesy of The Shed
Featured Project
The Powerhouse Arts Project Management team assembled and installed the first model of Agnes Denes’ Probability Pyramid—Study for Crystal Pyramid from 1976. The sculpture was commissioned by The Shed for the artist’s retrospective exhibition Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates curated by Emma Enderby, which was on view from October 2019 through March 2020.
Featured Project
Artists La Vaughn Belle and Jeannette Ehlers were commissioned by the Ford Foundation Gallery to create I Am Queen Mary for the exhibition, Radical Love, which ran from June to August, 2019.
I Am Queen Mary installed at the exhibition “Radical Love” at the Ford Foundation Gallery. Photo by Sebastian Bach and courtesy of Ford Foundation Gallery
Featured Project
Artists La Vaughn Belle and Jeannette Ehlers were commissioned by the Ford Foundation Gallery to create I Am Queen Mary for the exhibition, Radical Love, which ran from June to August, 2019.