[lockmat]

Heart of Houston's Museum District To Be Transformed This Week With a Public Art Installation

HOUSTON, TX.- This week, Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez brings his Kinetic Art sensibilities to the streets of Houston, transforming the crosswalks that connect the central campus buildings of the MFAH with an optical grid of "zebra" stripes. The artist generously donated one of his original concepts to the MFAH, which calls for the streets themselves to be used as a canvas;

The project is slated for completion by Saturday, June 6

Houston is the first city in the United States to install one of the artist´s crosswalk projects.

Striping Unlimited, supervised by W.S. Bellows Construction Corporation, will follow the artist´s design, painting five crosswalks. The Foundation has designed the crosswalks in three color palates: green and orange with a black diagonal, blue and orange with a black diagonal, and green and blue with a black diagonal. All of the crosswalks will have 12-inch-wide white, reflective stripes incorporated into the design, as required by transportation laws. The black lines create the impression of movement. Working within city regulations, the painting will take place over the course of five nights. One lane of traffic per crosswalk, per night, will be closed, allowing the street painters to complete their job on time and with minimal traffic disruption.

Four crosswalks will link the intersections of Main Street and Binz/Bissonnet. The fifth will connect the Museum parking lot on Bissonnet Street to the front entrance of the Caroline Wiess Law Building. Photographs of the crosswalks being installed will be updated daily; visit www.mfah.org to follow the installation´s progress.

http://www.artdaily....p;int_new=31227


Maybe someone can take some photos for those not able to make it!

[kylejack]

Only pic I could find:

[sheeats]

A friend of mine took a picture yesterday: http://twitpic.com/6gmqa

Psychedelic!

[hadooga]

The kiddo is in a camp at HMNS this week and I've been wondering since Monday what the deal was. Thanks, Lockmat.

Public Art in Progress

[rsb320]

Not to be a downer, but I wish they would've at least paved it prior to applying the art. OMG! They started with a dirty canvas.