Paul Hobson

PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

CURRENT PROJECTS

City of Fort Collins, CO - Linden Street Renovation Project

City of Palm Springs, CA - East Palm Canyon Drive Bridge. Design Team: Dokken Engineering

SELECTED PUBLIC ART PROJECTS BY CHRONOLOGY

City of Palm Desert, CA - 2020, San Pablo Avenue Corridor Improvement Project, crosswalks and bike racks. Design Team: Dokken Engineering, ADL Planning Associates.

San Diego County Regional Airport Authority – 2016, Light Sculpture Terminal 2

San Diego Association of Governments – 2015, Hillary Drive Direct Access Ramp. Design Team: Estrada Land Planning

City of Carlsbad, CA – 2014, Swim and Dive Panels and Mosaic Pool Towel Benches and Seat Walls, Alga Norte Community Park. Design Team: Wimmer Yamada and Caughey Landscape Architects, Architects Hanna Gabriel Wells,LSW Engineers, Aquatics Design Inc. Award: 2014 Project of the Year Award, American Public Works Association San Diego and Imperial Counties Chapter

City of Escondido, CA - 2012, Terrazzo Tables, Outdoor Living Room and Mosaic Fountain Seat Wall, Maple Street Pedestrian Plaza. Design Team: Schmidt Design Group, Kimley-Horn and Associates, Lumm-Bohne Civil Construction, Aquatics Design Inc. Award: 2013 Project of the Year Award, American Public Works Association San Diego and Imperial Counties Chapter

City of Palm Desert, CA – 2011, Swim, Dive, Play, stained and sealed depictions of swim strokes and dive techniques are sandblasted into the pool decks at the Aquatics Center. Design Team: Gould Evans Architects

Marriott San Diego Hotel and Marina - 2011, Tidal Flows, holographic finishes on aluminum, polycarbonate and programmable LED entry wall sculpture. Design Team: Martinez Cutri Architects, Randall Lamb Engineers

Sempra LNG, Ensenada, Mexico – 2009, glass tile mural for Casa Azul. Design Team: Wimmer Yamada and Caughey, Landscape Architects

San Diego Association of Governments – 2009, Blowing Leaves retaining wall, Interstate 15 Bus Rapid Transit Stations Design Team: KTU+A Landscape Architects, Manuel Oncina, Architects. Awards: 2009 Project of the Year Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, San Diego Section, 2010 Project of the Year Award, American Public Works Association, San Diego and Imperial Counties Chapter

City of Encinitas, CA – 2008, Courtyard Gate, Encinitas Community Library, City of Encinitas Commission for the Arts. Painted galvanized steel and polycarbonate gate

City of National City, CA – 2007, Portals in Time, National City Boulevard Streetscape and Fountain Plaza Promenade Improvement Project. Design Team: Project Design Consultants

City of Ventura, CA - 2007, Works Projects Anthology, Vessel Gate - Avenue Water Treatment Plant Main and service gates. Design Team: Kennedy Jenks Consultants. Award: 2008 Top Job Award, National Ornamental and Miscellaneous Metals Association

City of San Diego, CA - 2006, El Cajon Boulevard Transit Plaza - El Cajon Boulevard at Interstate 15, San Diego, CA. Team: KTU+A Landscape Architects

City of San Diego, CA - 2005, Fire Hose Frieze - Fire Station Number 31, Camino Rico and College Avenue, San Diego, CA. Design Team: Platt/Whitelaw Architects. Awards: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005 Award of Merit, 2006 Honor Award, American Public Works Association, San Diego and Imperial Counties Chapter

City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department - 2004, All Right Storage Building; 6900 Van Nuys Blvd, Van Nuys, CA. Design Team: Graham Downes, Architect

City of San Diego Water Department - 2004, Canyonside Community Park – Design Team: Pountney Consulting Group

Price Charities San Diego Revitalization Corporation - 2003, Technoscape, Cultural Banners, City Heights Urban Village Design Team: Martinez Cutri Architects and Planners, E-Scape Design, Landscape Architects

City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation and Bureau of Engineering - 2003, Metrolink Grade Separation. Random finish stainless steel plate with cutouts depicting area assets, Van Nuys, CA

City of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering - 2002, Alex Baum Bike Bridge, Los Feliz Boulevard at the Los Angeles River, Los Angeles, CA. Design Team: Bureau of Engineering

City of Los Angeles Bridge Program - 2002, Bridge Railing, Van Nuys Boulevard at the Pacoima Wash, Van Nuys, CA

San Diego Metropolitan Wastewater Department - 2001, Vortex, Pictograph Freize and Perimeter Fence, South Bay Water Reclamation Plant, San Diego, CA. Design Team: Parsons Engineering Science, Platt/Whitelaw Architects and Garbini and Garbini Landscape Architects

City of Imperial Beach - 2001, Blue Wave, glass mosaic median wave sculpture, Palm Avenue Median Beautification Project. Design Team: Wimmer Yamada and Caughey Landscape Architects

San Diego Power and Cooling Company - 2000, Friezing, Kettner Avenue and Broadway, downtown San Diego, CA. Private Development

City of San Diego Park and Recreation Department - 1999, Hot Air Balloons Ascending Torrey Pines, Carmel Valley Community Park, San Diego, CA. Design Team: KTU+A Landscape Architects and Platt/Whitelaw Architects. Award: California Park and Recreation Society, 1999 Award for Excellence for Facility Design in a Community

City of Coronado - 1999, Least Tern Wing Pier, Silver Strand Beautification Project; State Highway 75, Coronado, CA. Design Team: Schmidt Design Group, Inc., Tierra Environmental Services. Awards: 1999 Honor Award - American Society of Landscape Architects, San Diego Chapter. 2000 Orchid Award for Landscape Architecture/Environmental Solutions, 2018 Honor Award - American Society of Landscape Architects

City of San Diego Water Department - 1999, 65th and Herrick Water Pump Station. Precast concrete art panel. Design Team: Platt/Whitelaw Architects

City of Carlsbad Arts Office - 1998, Siren Call of Filmland, Leo Carrillo Ranch/Park Master Plan. Design Team: KTU+A Landscape Architects, Milford Wayne Donaldson, Architect. Awards: California Preservation Foundation Design Award for Leo Carrillo Ranch Master Plan, 1998. American Society of Landscape Architects, San Diego Chapter, Merit Award, 1999

City of San Diego Water Utilities Department - 1997, Viewage, Pump Station 77. Design Team: Spurlock Porier Landscape Architects and Planners and Manuel Oncina, Architect. Awards: American Society of Civil Engineers, Outreach Award, 1998, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Liquid Art Award for “Viewage”, Pump Station 77, City of San Diego, Water/Utilities Department

San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board - 1996, Archaic Passage, Old Town Transit Station, San Diego, CA. Design Team: KTU+A Landscape Architects. Award: Award for Fine Art, 1997

Children’s Museum of San Diego - 1994, Incunabula, Toddler’s Exhibit. Award: Orchid Award 1994

City of San Diego Waste Management Department – 1991, Miramar Landfill Master Plan. Design Team: Martinez Cutri Architects, Delorenzo Assoc., Burkett & Wong, Helen and Newton Harrison, Artists

City of San Diego Waste Management Department – 1991, Materials Recovery Facility, Miramar Landfill. Design Team: Wimmer Yamada Landscape Architects

City of Newport Beach, CA, 1988, Inspiration Point, Beach Access, Newport Beach, CA. Design Team: Cunningham Design Landscape Architects, Helen and Newton Harrison, Artists and Marcello Petrocelli, Artist

SELECTED TO DEVELOP DESIGN PROPOSALS (PARTIAL LIST)

Purple Line Art-in-Transit Program – 2017, Finalist, Silver Spring Maryland Library

Palm Beach County Art in Public Places Program – 2016, Finalist, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Evidence and Impound Facility Perimeter Barrier

Business Improvement District, Grand Junction, CO – 2015, Finalist, Horizon Drive Corridor Improvements Project Bridge Railing Enhancement

City of Escondido, CA - 2014, Finalist, Grape Day Park Project, design Team: Estrada Land Planning, Nasland Engineering

Town of Cary, NC -2013, Finalist, Fire Station #2, 2013, Park, Recreation and Cultural Recourses Department

City of La Mesa, CA – 2011, Finalist, Centennial Legacy Project

Port of San Diego – 2011, Finalist, America’s Cup Harbor Parking Facility Public Art Project

University of California San Diego – 2010, Triton Sculpture Base Improvement and Donor Program Project ~

Town of Cary, NC - 2009, Finalist, Walker Street Extension, Park, Recreation and Cultural Recourses Department

San Diego County Regional Airport Authority – 2009, Finalist, Performing Arts Venue, Design Team: Jean Isaacs, Choreographer, Steve Baker, Musician

City of San Diego Engineering and Capital Projects Department – 2009, Finalist, 25th Street Renaissance Project, Design Team: Estrada Land Planning, Nasland Engineering

San Diego County Regional Airport Authority – 2009, Finalist, Commuter Terminal Elevator Lobby

City of Los Angeles Bridge Improvement Program – 2008, Finalist, San Fernando Road Bike Path over Tujunga Wash

City of Madison, WI – 2008, Finalist, Goodman Pool Public Art Project

City of Scottsdale, AZ – 2007, Finalist, Pima Road and Pinnacle Peak Improvement Project, Scottsdale Cultural Council

City of Compton, CA – Finalist, Del Amo Metro Station, 2007 Metrolink Blue Line

TECHNICAL CONSULTANT for BAUHAUS ARTIST herbert bayer 1985 - ONGOING

I continue to provide curatorial consultation for Bauhaus Master hebert bayer’s estate and posthumous installations of his artwork.

“A Sense of Place: Santa Barbara’s Public Art Legacy”, featured in the production, June 2015. https://youtu.be/NT6EU0gx1ww

Featured in “geometry of an illusionist” the anthology paintings of herbert bayer 1976 – 1983 exhibition catalogue, Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO, Summer 2009

Americans For the Arts Convention, 2009 - honored guest at herbert bayer’s Mill Creek Canyon Earthwork Tour, City of Kent, WA

“metamorphosis – transformation in herbert bayer’s imagery”, 1928 – 1940, 2008 - historical assistance to Bernard Jazzar, Curator

University of Washington, 2007 – 2008 - Curatorial assistance, Channeling herbert bayer Project

herbert bayer archive, 1985 – 1988, consultant/technical coordinator including museum and gallery exhibitions, painting and sculpture restoration

“Chromatic Gate”, 1987 - 25" high painted aluminum sculpture, Santa Barbara, CA. Community presentations, technical coordination, supervision of fabrication and installation of a bayer sculpture

"herbert bayer: A Decade in Santa Barbara", 1986 - curatorial assistance and execution of a ten foot sculpture for the exhibition of at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

Denver Art Museum, 1985 - ongoing technical assistance to the herbert bayer archive

herbert bayer, the complete work, 1984 - curatorial assistance on a book by Arthur A. Cohen, published by MIT Press

STUDIO ASSISTANT to BAUHAUS MASTER herbert bayer 1976 to 1985

I performed a full range of studio management tasks for artist herbert bayer including: execution of paintings, sculpture, murals, tapestries, tile design, graphic design and environmental artwork. I also performed many public art related duties while serving as artistic supervisor for numerous Bayer projects including:

"Articulated Wall", 1985 - 85' high concrete sculpture, Denver, CO. Execution of drawings and models, fabrication and installation oversight

“Maler, Designer, Architekt”, 1985 - technical advisor in the production of a film on herbert bayer for German Public Television

“Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks”, 1982 - five acre park and flood control, Kent, WA. Execution of drawings and models, fabrication and installation oversight

“Walk in Space Painting”, 1981 - concrete sculpture faced with glazed brick; Arco Executive Training Center, Montecito, CA. Execution of drawings and models, fabrication and installation oversight

“Wall Relief”, 1979 - painted aluminum sculpture, Arco Building, Dallas, TX. Execution of drawings and models, fabrication and installation oversight

“Gate in Four Parts”, 1979 - painted aluminum gate sculpture, Arco, Dallas, TX. Execution of drawings and models, fabrication and installation oversight


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