''Terra Incognita'' is an outdoor 1995 sculpture by Israeli artist
Ilan Averbuch
Ilan Averbuch (born 1953, Israel) is a sculptor living and working in Long Island City, New York. Averbuch creates large-scale monumental artworks and installations for gallery and museum exhibitions in addition to outdoor public spaces.
Biogra ...
, located at the foot of the
Broadway Bridge in
Portland, Oregon
Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous co ...
.
Description and history
''Terra Incognita'', designed by Ilan Averbuch, was installed at North Broadway and North Larrabee Avenue, at the foot of the
Broadway Bridge, in Portland's
Rose Quarter
The Rose Quarter is a sports and entertainment district located in Portland's Lloyd District on the east bank of the Willamette River, just east of downtown. The Rose Quarter is bounded on the west by NE Interstate Avenue, on the north by NE Broa ...
in 1995. The gate-like sculpture is made from steel, wood, stone and copper, and measures x x .
It forms five cubes in a "strong positive negative pattern".
[ The three base cubes are bundled tree trunks, and the two cubes suspended by the lower three are stone piles. According to the ]Regional Arts & Culture Council
The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) is an organization that administers arts grants in Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas Counties that also do advocacy in the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon, United States. It evolved from the city†...
, which administer the sculpture:
This work relates to its site in a broad context. It plays off the power of the natural landscape, the rivers, hillsides and mountains, as well as the power and scale of the man-made elements such as surrounding bridges and buildings. Averbuch felt that the dramatic relationship between wood and stone are appropriate for Portland. This sculpture has a feeling of fortification and frontier, elements the artist associates with Oregon.
It is part of the City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collection courtesy of the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
See also
* 1995 in art
Events from the year 1995 in art.
Events
* January – New San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, designed by Mario Botta, opens.
* June – Narendra Patel's sculpture '' Jantar-Mantar'', on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (U ...
* ''Little Prince'' (sculpture), another 1995 sculpture by Averbuch located in the Rose Quarter
References
External links
Resonant Reflections: The Art of Ilan Averbuch
by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo (PDF)
A Guide to Portland Public Art
(PDF), Regional Arts & Culture Council
{{Public art in Portland, Oregon
1995 establishments in Oregon
1995 sculptures
Copper sculptures in Oregon
Lloyd District, Portland, Oregon
North Portland, Oregon
Outdoor sculptures in Portland, Oregon
Steel sculptures in Oregon
Stone sculptures in Oregon
Wooden sculptures in Oregon