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"Connected by Sea" or the "Dock Tattoo Project", also dubbed "The 1000-foot tattoo" is located in a sculpture park in a working shipyard in [[East Boston]] that is part of the [[Boston Harborwalk]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shao |first=Yiqing |date=2014-08-12 |title=Dock Tattoo Project Inks East Boston with 1,000-Foot Tattoo Art |url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2014/08/12/dock-tattoo-project-east-boston-harborarts-pier/ |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=Boston Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Mills |first=Alexa |date=September 20, 2014 |title=Artist's 'tattoo' project will cover pier |work=The Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/09/19/artist-tattoos-east-boston-pier-for-saturday-harborarts-festival/7KjtyG624SXffbcGWVDNOO/story.html |access-date=October 11, 2016}}</ref> A series of 19 large [[tattoo]]-themed designs, stained into the cement surface of a 1000-foot long pier, forms a walking path to its end and a view of Boston Harbor. The work illuminates :"the cultures local maritime trade has connected with around the world"<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=The 50 Best Works Of Public Art In Greater Boston, Ranked |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2016/08/29/boston-best-public-art |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=www.wbur.org |language=en}}</ref> to a "poignant" effect, memorializing the "indelible bond" Boston maintains with its harbor.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tucker |first=Lindsay |date=2014-11-25 |title=20 Reasons We Loved Boston in 2014 |url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/11/25/reasons-to-love-boston-in-2014/ |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=Boston Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> This inclusive and multicultural story of Boston's history<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.wcvb.com/chronicle/rustic-marlin-and-harbor-arts/28254508 |
"Connected by Sea" or the "Dock Tattoo Project", also dubbed "The 1000-foot tattoo" is located in a sculpture park in a working shipyard in [[East Boston]] that is part of the [[Boston Harborwalk]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shao |first=Yiqing |date=2014-08-12 |title=Dock Tattoo Project Inks East Boston with 1,000-Foot Tattoo Art |url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2014/08/12/dock-tattoo-project-east-boston-harborarts-pier/ |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=Boston Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Mills |first=Alexa |date=September 20, 2014 |title=Artist's 'tattoo' project will cover pier |work=The Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/09/19/artist-tattoos-east-boston-pier-for-saturday-harborarts-festival/7KjtyG624SXffbcGWVDNOO/story.html |access-date=October 11, 2016}}</ref> A series of 19 large [[tattoo]]-themed designs, stained into the cement surface of a 1000-foot long pier, forms a walking path to its end and a view of Boston Harbor. The work illuminates :"the cultures local maritime trade has connected with around the world"<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=The 50 Best Works Of Public Art In Greater Boston, Ranked |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2016/08/29/boston-best-public-art |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=www.wbur.org |language=en}}</ref> to a "poignant" effect, memorializing the "indelible bond" Boston maintains with its harbor.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tucker |first=Lindsay |date=2014-11-25 |title=20 Reasons We Loved Boston in 2014 |url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/11/25/reasons-to-love-boston-in-2014/ |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=Boston Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> This inclusive and multicultural story of Boston's history<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 26, 2014 |title=Rustic Marlin and Harbor Arts: The sign makers of Rustic Marlin; making a tattoo for Boston Harbor |work=WCVB Chronicle |publisher=WCVB |url=http://www.wcvb.com/chronicle/rustic-marlin-and-harbor-arts/28254508 |access-date=October 11, 2016}}</ref> was ranked as one of the "50 best pieces of Boston public art" by WBUR's ARTery in 2016.<ref name=":7" /> |
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==== "Salem's Connected World" (2015) ==== |
==== "Salem's Connected World" (2015) ==== |
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![]() Liz LaManche with one of her paintings, ~2022 | |
Born | Elizabeth Manicatide 1967 (age 56–57) |
Alma mater | Yale University |
Known for | Public Art Street art Graphic Design |
Website | earthsign |
Liz LaManche (born Elizabeth Manicatide[1] 1967) is an American artist based in Somerville, Massachusetts, known for creating large-scale public installations and street art in the Boston and Washington, DC, areas.[2]
Bildung
LaManche received a B.A. in Architecture at Yale University studying graphic design under Inge Druckrey, and did a thesis project in architectural ornament/site specific urban installations advised by sculptor Kent Bloomer.[3]
Career
Early
LaManche spent her early professional career in software user interface design, web development and graphic design, painting in her spare time.[4]
Festival Art
At Burning Man in 2005, LaManche began to experiment with large-scale murals illuminated with programmed color-changing LED lighting,[5] later known as "art for kinetic light"[6]. These murals and their successors were some of the first experiments in this genre of LED art as architectural LED lighting first became available to makers and artists.[7][8] LaManche's murals appeared for several years at the Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, NV,[5] and at the Boston and New York Decompression events.[9]
Art in Public Spaces
The "bright color, fanciful characters" and "playful figures" of LaManche's festival work and its layered use of symbolic & iconographic details"[7][10] proved a crowd-pleasing combination, and commissioned work for large-scale murals and installations in the Boston and Washington D.C. areas followed.[4] Her work in Hyattsville, Maryland achieved national notice for both its innovative use of LED technology and its role in that city's urban renewal,[8] launching opportunities for local projects in her home state.
A goal of Lamanche's work is to humanize the urban environment, the legacy of her architectural training. In a 2016 interview, LaManche stated: "I'd like to provide ways for people to engage with each other and break down barriers, contributing to greater understanding, peace and justice in our society. Literally, I believe we need this to be sustainable as a species." to , and create a more inclusive, progressive vision of human society."[4]
Works
Public Commissions
"After Dark, Hyattsville" (2011)
A 40x14-foot mural for kinetic light on the Franklin's Brewery building, facing Route 1 in Hyattsville, Maryland, part of the designated Arts District.[11][12] ""After Dark" has been described as the first permanent outdoor mural for kinetic light.[7] The piece features colorful characters and dreamlike imagery alluding to aspects of the neighborhood, including the local college's mascot and a humorous reference to another piece of public art in a nearby park.[13] Programmed light shows projected on the piece via architectural lighting are designed to make the colors in the painting appear to swap and move.[8]
"Stairs of Fabulousness" (2014)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/2010_Boston_City_Hall_5213.jpg/249px-2010_Boston_City_Hall_5213.jpg)
This 2014 installation in the Boston City Hall building was the product of a New Urbanism design competition run by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh's Office of New Urban Mechanics, aimed at improving public spaces in Boston with temporary, low-budget installations designed to "surprise and delight."[14] One of 9 winners of the 2014 Public Space Invitational,[15][16][17] LaManche's "Stairs of Fabulousness" placed 1,200 linear feet of safety non-skid tape on the large central brick staircase in Boston City Hall's main atrium, a building renown for its off-putting Brutalist aesthetic and failure to create a "welcoming public space."[18] LaManche's tape, in an array of fluorescent colors, created a large rainbow gradient over the whole height of the staircase, which served "to essentially transform the concrete milieu into something colorful and inviting."[19][20]
"Stairs of Fabulousness" was described as "simple yet tremendously effective."[20] The installation brought vibrant, attractive color to the Boston City Hall stairs, and LaManche was lauded for her work as one of "Fifty on Fire" in the Boston culture scene: "anyone who can successfully spice up the facade of Government Center through creativity is on fire in our books."[21]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/West_African_Tattoo%2C_part_of_Connected_By_Sea_by_Liz_LaManche%2C_at_HarborArts_in_East_Boston_Shipyard.jpg/150px-West_African_Tattoo%2C_part_of_Connected_By_Sea_by_Liz_LaManche%2C_at_HarborArts_in_East_Boston_Shipyard.jpg)
"Connected By Sea" (2014-16)
"Connected by Sea" or the "Dock Tattoo Project", also dubbed "The 1000-foot tattoo" is located in a sculpture park in a working shipyard in East Boston that is part of the Boston Harborwalk.[22][23] A series of 19 large tattoo-themed designs, stained into the cement surface of a 1000-foot long pier, forms a walking path to its end and a view of Boston Harbor. The work illuminates :"the cultures local maritime trade has connected with around the world"[24] to a "poignant" effect, memorializing the "indelible bond" Boston maintains with its harbor.[25] This inclusive and multicultural story of Boston's history[26] was ranked as one of the "50 best pieces of Boston public art" by WBUR's ARTery in 2016.[24]
"Salem's Connected World" (2015)
A sister project to "Connected By Sea", this temporary installation made up a walking path that covered three city blocks of the Downtown Salem District in Salem, Massachusetts. It consisted of painted tattoo-themed symbols and designs from the different cultures specifically connected to Salem's maritime history.[27] Installed in the spring of 2015, it was the first project funded by the new Salem Public Art Commission.[28] Some of the designs are still visible along the cement walk of Artists Row.
"Lowell: Water and Work" (2016)
A commissioned piece for the City of Lowell, Massachusetts, the entire installation included a 16-foot mural, and 2 blocks of sidewalk and other wall art along a new pedestrian walkway, and "rain art" using hydrophobic coating on the pavement to make art that appears when it rains.[29][30] The entire project, called the Decatur WAY Green Alley, created a pedestrian walkway from a disused back alley in a program to use green technology to deal with storm water runoff.[31] The mural depicts the Lowell mills and canals with a portrait of a young Harriet Hanson Robinson, a mill worker who became a labor leader and suffragette.[32][33]
Small-scale public art & street art
- Wraparound building exterior in Bartlett Yard, Boston.[34][35]
- Cambridge Brewing Company mural, 2014.[36][37]
- "The Goddess of Winter Hill", Somerville, MA 2014: 8x10-foot panels on the rear of Somerville post office. Client: City of Somerville.[38]
- "Safety Dance" crosswalk, 2016: 96-foot long crosswalk depicting pedestrian safety figures dancing.[39][40]
- "The Tattoo Heart", a Boston street piano, 2016.[41][42][43][44]
- "The Soul's Journey As A Series of Weird Old Cars" Somerville, MA 2016.[45]
See also
Writing
- "Connected By Sea" The Artists Working: Theory and Practice, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 59–72. May 2016 ISBN 978-0-692-72809-3
Sources
- Art in Public Places, Boston Globe Big Picture (November 7, 2014)
- Connected By Sea, Documentary video by Patrick Torphy, News Director of WERS, October 2014
- Artist's Dock Tattoo Connects Boston To Its History As An International Trade Port. Amy Gorel, WBUR ARTery. (October 14, 2016)
- https://soundcloud.com/889-wers/sets/you-are-here-performance-art Performance Art: Exclusive Interview with Artist Liz LaManche. You Are Here, WERS 88.9fm (November 23, 2014)
- Salem's Connected World, The Salem (MA) News. Video by Cheryl Richardson (May 20, 2015)
- Artistry Documentary entry in Now You See Me Festival by Laura Sweet (November 29, 2014)
- ‘A Series of Weird Old Cars’ honors community work by late Al Riskalla by Manna Parker, The Somerville Times (November 30, 2016)
- Art For All by Eliza Rosenberry, SCOUT Somerville, The Arts Issue, (February 28, 2017)
- ‘Stairs of Fabulousness’ At City Hall Are Pretty Fabulous by Megan Turchi, Boston.com (September 17, 2014)
References
- ^ "Mircea Manicatide: August 23, 1938 - February 28, 2017". Tribute Archive. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ Mills, Alexa (September 28, 2015). "The Displaced Artists of Somerville". CoLab Radio. CoLab Radio. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
- ^ "Liz LaManche". Earthsign.com.
- ^ a b c Parker, Manna (August 31, 2016). "The Art of the Outdoor Piano". The Somerville Times. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
- ^ a b Broaddus, Will (May 20, 2015). "Artist's Sidewalk Paintings in Salem Influenced By Local History". Salem News. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
- ^ LaManche, Liz. "Kinetic Light Paintings". Earthsign.com.
- ^ a b c "First of its Kind, Kinetic Light Mural Adds a New Glow to the Downtown Route 1 Restaurant District". Hyattsville Community Development Corporation. Hyattsville, MD. 2013-04-09. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
- ^ a b c Spivack, Miranda (April 19, 2013). "For Mike Franklin, the art's the thing in Hyattsville". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
- ^ Verona, Zilya (November 5, 2007) "LED Mural from NYC Decom 2007" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr_kjQxWHvs
- ^ Currie, Susie (April 7, 2013). "Franklins Facelift". Hyattsville Life & Times. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
- ^ Alexander, Jonathan (October 1, 2013). "Franklins Mural". HCTV. Chandler, Jim (producer), Sandel, Abby (producer. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
- ^ Simmons, Holley (October 23, 2014). "How to Spend $40 in Hyattsville". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
- ^ Tuck, Tammy (February 20, 2014). "Check Out the Murals at Local Breweries". Washington City Paper. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
- ^ Farrell, Michael B. (June 5, 2014). "Contest Aims to Enliven Public Spaces in Boston". The Boston Globe (boston.com). Retrieved October 11, 2016.
- ^ "2014 Public Space Invitational". City of Boston (boston.gov). 2019-03-07. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
- ^ "Mayor Walsh Announces Winners of Boston's First Public Space Invitational". City of Boston (boston.gov). June 5, 2014.
- ^ Shao, Yiqing (June 5, 2014). "Boston's Public Space Invitational Winners Announced". Boston Magazine. Retrieved November 23, 2016.
- ^ "Why is Boston City Hall the way it is?". The Boston Globe (boston.com). Retrieved 2023-03-24.
- ^ "Temporary Public Art in Boston". Boston Art Commission. Retrieved November 23, 2016.
- ^ a b DeLuca, Nick (September 19, 2014). "The Stairs of Fabulousness Inject an Inviting Vibrancy in Concrete City Hall". Bostinno. Retrieved March 23, 2023.
- ^ Milnes, Hillary (October 28, 2014). "Announcing the 50 on Fire Finalists in Arts & Entertainment". BostInno. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
- ^ Shao, Yiqing (2014-08-12). "Dock Tattoo Project Inks East Boston with 1,000-Foot Tattoo Art". Boston Magazine. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
- ^ Mills, Alexa (September 20, 2014). "Artist's 'tattoo' project will cover pier". The Boston Globe. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
- ^ a b "The 50 Best Works Of Public Art In Greater Boston, Ranked". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
- ^ Tucker, Lindsay (2014-11-25). "20 Reasons We Loved Boston in 2014". Boston Magazine. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
- ^ "Rustic Marlin and Harbor Arts: The sign makers of Rustic Marlin; making a tattoo for Boston Harbor". WCVB Chronicle. WCVB. September 26, 2014. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
- ^ Broaddus, Will (May 20, 2015). "Artist's sidewalk paintings in Salem influenced by local history". The Salem News. Retrieved November 23, 2016.
- ^ Keith, Spencer (June 11, 2015). "Thousands Visit the Salem Arts Festival and Connect with Swath of Creatives". NoBo Magazine. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
- ^ Malakie, Julia (June 3, 2016). "Opening of Decatur Way Water, Art & You art walk". The Lowell Sun. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
One of the amphibian designs embedded in the pavement, that only shows up when wet.
- ^ LaManche, Liz (May 31, 2016). "Rain Art & Paintings in Decatur Way Green Path, Lowell, MA". Earthsign.com. Earthsign Studios. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- ^ Cicco, Nancy (May 31, 2016). "Transformed Decatur Way to Open as an Art Space in Lowell". Umass Lowell. UMass Lowell. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- ^ Welker, Grant (June 3, 2016). "Water, Art and You brighten formerly blighted Acre alley in Lowell". The Lowell Sun. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- ^ LaManche, Liz. "Lowell: Water and work. Harriet Hanson Robinson". Earthsign.com. Earthsign Studios. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- ^ Guerra, Kristela (June 3, 2015). "A final look at the art created at Bartlett Yard". The Boston Globe. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- ^ LaManche, Liz. "Bartlett Yard". Earthsign.com. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
- ^ "New CBC Mural!". Cambridge Brewing Company. Cambridge Brewing Company. November 30, 2014. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- ^ LaManche, Liz. "Cambridge Brewing Company". Earthsign.com. Earthsign Studios. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- ^ LaManche, Liz. "Goddess of Winter Hill". Earthsign.com. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- ^ Ruppenthal, Alex (September 7, 2016). "WalkMedford completes 96-foot crosswalk art project at Medford High School". Medford Transcript. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- ^ Evangelista, Lisa (August 30, 2016). "Walk Medford Completes First Ever Decorated Crosswalk at MHS!". Medford Public Schools. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- ^ "Somerville residents chosen as artists for Street Pianos Boston". The Somerville News Weekly. August 5, 2016. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- ^ Parker, Manna (August 31, 2016). "The Art of the Outdoor Piano". The Somerville Times. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- ^ "Greenway - Dewey Square Park, Downtown". Street Pianos. August 31, 2016. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- ^ LaManche, Liz. "Boston Street Piano 2016: The Tattoo Heart". Earthsign.com. Earthsign Studios. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- ^ Cook, Greg (October 14, 2016). "New Mural In Somerville Honors Beloved Auto Mechanic". Local Coverage. WBUR. Boston, MA. Retrieved November 27, 2016.