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'''Ned Kahn''' is an environmental artist and sculptor, known in particular for museum exhibits he has built for the [[Exploratorium]] in [[San Francisco]]. His works usually involves capturing an invisible aspect of nature and making it visible; examples include building facades that move in waves in response to wind; indoor tornadoes and vortices made of fog, steam, or fire; a transparent sphere containing water and sand which, when spun, erodes a beach-like ripple pattern into the sand surface. In 2003 Kahn collaborated with [[Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc.]] on a piece for the [[Children's Museum of Pittsburgh]] consisting of hundreds of movable flaps that respond to the wind creating visible patterns. Kahn won a [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Foundation]] "[[genius grant]]" fellowship in 2003, and the [[National Design Award]] for environmental design in 2005. His work is in the collection of di Rosa, Napa.<ref>http://www.dirosaart.org/collection-in-focus-ned-kahn/</ref>
'''Ned Kahn''' is an environmental artist and sculptor, known in particular for museum exhibits he has built for the [[Exploratorium]] in [[San Francisco]]. His works usually involves capturing an invisible aspect of nature and making it visible.


Kahn lives and works in California.
Kahn lives and works in California.

==Awards==
Kahn won a [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Foundation]] "[[genius grant]]" fellowship in 2003,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/714/ |title=Ned Kahn, Artist and Science Exhibit Designer {{!}} Class of 2003 |date=October 5, 2003 |publisher=MacArthur Foundation |accessdate=26 November 2019}}</ref><ref name=SFG-031005>{{cite news |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Genius-rewarded-3-from-Bay-Area-win-grants-from-2584300.php |title=Genius rewarded / 3 from Bay Area win grants from MacArthur Foundation |author=Asimov, Nanette |date=October 5, 2003 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |accessdate=26 November 2019}}</ref> and the [[National Design Award]] for environmental design in 2005.


==Works==
==Works==
Some examples of Kahn's work to capture the invisible include building facades that move in waves in response to wind;<ref name=A4A-articulated_cloud/><ref name=A4A-wind_veil/> indoor tornadoes and vortices made of fog, steam, or fire;<ref name=E-tornado/> and a transparent sphere containing water and sand which, when spun, erodes a beach-like ripple pattern into the sand surface. In 2003 Kahn collaborated with [[Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc.]] on ''Articulated Cloud'', a piece installed on the exterior walls of the [[Children's Museum of Pittsburgh]] consisting of hundreds of movable flaps that respond to the wind creating visible patterns.<ref name=A4A-articulated_cloud/>

His work is in the collection of di Rosa, Napa.<ref>http://www.dirosaart.org/collection-in-focus-ned-kahn/</ref>

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|+ style="font-size:125%;" | Selected works by Ned Kahn<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nedkahn.com/ |title=Portfolio |date= |author=Kahn, Ned |website=Ned Kahn |accessdate=15 December 2017}}</ref>
|+ style="font-size:125%;" | Selected works by Ned Kahn<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nedkahn.com/ |title=Portfolio |date= |author=Kahn, Ned |website=Ned Kahn |accessdate=15 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2004
| style="text-align:left;" | Collaboration with Konig/Eizenberg
| style="text-align:left;" | Collaboration with Konig/Eizenberg
| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arch2o.com/articulated-cloud-ned-kahn/ |title=Articulated Cloud {{!}} Ned Kahn |website=Arch2O |accessdate=26 November 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/networks-and-councils/public-art-network/public-art-year-in-review-database/articulated-cloud |title=Articulated Cloud |website=Americans for the Arts |accessdate=26 November 2019}}</ref>
| <ref name=A4A-articulated_cloud>{{cite web |url=https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/networks-and-councils/public-art-network/public-art-year-in-review-database/articulated-cloud |title=Articulated Cloud |website=Americans for the Arts |accessdate=26 November 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arch2o.com/articulated-cloud-ned-kahn/ |title=Articulated Cloud {{!}} Ned Kahn |website=Arch2O |accessdate=26 November 2019}}</ref>
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! ''Avalanche''
! ''Avalanche''
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| 2004
| 2004
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| <ref name=SFG-031005/>
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! ''Duales Systems Pavilion''
! ''Duales Systems Pavilion''
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| 2012
| 2012
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| <ref name=A4A-firefly>{{cite web |url=https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/networks-and-councils/public-art-network/public-art-year-in-review-database/firefly |title=Firefly |website=Americans for the Arts |accessdate=26 November 2019}}</ref>
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! ''Fluvial Storm''
! ''Fluvial Storm''
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! ''Rain Oculus''
! ''Rain Oculus''
| [[File:Rain Oculus (47946040766).jpg|100px]]
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| Water
| Water
| [[Marina Bay Sands]]
| [[Marina Bay Sands]]
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| 2011
| 2011
| style="text-align:left;" | Collaboration with Moshe Safdie
| style="text-align:left;" | Collaboration with Moshe Safdie
| <ref name=A4A-rain_oculus>{{cite web |url=https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/networks-and-councils/public-art-network/public-art-year-in-review-database/rain-oculus |title=Rain Oculus |website=Americans for the Arts |accessdate=26 November 2019}}</ref>
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! ''Rainbow Arbor''
! ''Rainbow Arbor''
| [[File:Rainbow Arbor at Skirball Cultural Center (34933681025).jpg|100px]]
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| Fog
| Fog
| [[Skirball Cultural Center]]
| [[Skirball Cultural Center]]
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| 2008
| 2008
| style="text-align:left;" | Collaboration with Moshe Safdie
| style="text-align:left;" | Collaboration with Moshe Safdie
| <ref name=jweekly/><ref name=A4A-rainbow_arbor>{{cite web |url=https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/networks-and-councils/public-art-network/public-art-year-in-review-database/rainbow-arbor |title=Rainbow Arbor |website=Americans for the Arts |accessdate=26 November 2019}}</ref>
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| <ref name=jweekly/>
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! ''Rift Zone''
! ''Rift Zone''
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| 1990
| 1990
| style="text-align:left;" | Also on exhibit at the [[Exploratorium]] in San Francisco.
| style="text-align:left;" | Also on exhibit at the [[Exploratorium]] in San Francisco.
| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/tornado |title=Tornado |website=Exploratorium |accessdate=26 November 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.exploratorium.edu/texnet/exhibits/weather/tornado/media/tornado_m.pdf |title=Tornado by Ned Kahn: Assembly and Maintenance |website=Exploratorium |accessdate=26 November 2019}}</ref>
| <ref name=E-tornado>{{cite web |url=https://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/tornado |title=Tornado |website=Exploratorium |accessdate=26 November 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.exploratorium.edu/texnet/exhibits/weather/tornado/media/tornado_m.pdf |title=Tornado by Ned Kahn: Assembly and Maintenance |website=Exploratorium |accessdate=26 November 2019}}</ref>
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! ''Turbulent Line''
! ''Turbulent Line''
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| 2003
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! ''Wind Roundabout''
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| 2006
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| <ref name=A4a-wind_silos>{{cite web |url=https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/networks-and-councils/public-art-network/public-art-year-in-review-database/wind-silos |title=Wind Silos |website=Americans for the Arts |accessdate=26 November 2019}}</ref>
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| 2000
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| <ref name=SFG-031005/><ref name=A4A-wind_veil>{{cite web |url=https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/networks-and-councils/public-art-network/public-art-year-in-review-database/wind-veil |title=Wind Veil |website=Americans for the Arts |accessdate=26 November 2019}}</ref>
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Revision as of 16:23, 26 November 2019

Cloud Rings at the Exploratorium

Ned Kahn is an environmental artist and sculptor, known in particular for museum exhibits he has built for the Exploratorium in San Francisco. His works usually involves capturing an invisible aspect of nature and making it visible.

Kahn lives and works in California.

Awards

Kahn won a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" fellowship in 2003,[1][2] and the National Design Award for environmental design in 2005.

Works

Some examples of Kahn's work to capture the invisible include building facades that move in waves in response to wind;[3][4] indoor tornadoes and vortices made of fog, steam, or fire;[5] and a transparent sphere containing water and sand which, when spun, erodes a beach-like ripple pattern into the sand surface. In 2003 Kahn collaborated with Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc. on Articulated Cloud, a piece installed on the exterior walls of the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh consisting of hundreds of movable flaps that respond to the wind creating visible patterns.[3]

His work is in the collection of di Rosa, Napa.[6]

Selected works by Ned Kahn[7]
Title Image Element Location City State/
Country 		Year Notes Refs.
Aeolian Landscape Sand Museum of Life and Science Durham North Carolina 1993 Also on exhibit at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. [8]
Articulated Cloud Wind Children's Museum of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 2004 Collaboration with Konig/Eizenberg [3][9]
Avalanche Sand Museum of Science and Industry Chicago Illinois 2011 A similar piece named Negev Wheel has been exhibited at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. [10]
Braided Stream Wind Exploratorium San Francisco California [11]
Breathing Sky Fog Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco California 1995
Bus Jet Fountain Water Transbay Transit Center San Francisco California 2018
Chain of Ether Wind ResMed Corporation San Diego California 2009
Chaotic Pendulum Exploratorium San Francisco California [12]
Circular Wave Umbrella Wind Exploratorium San Francisco California [13]
Cloud Arbor Fog Buhl Community Park Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 2012 Collaboration with Andi Cochran
Cloud Portal Fog Davis Court San Francisco California 2011 Collaboration with RHAA
Cloud Rings Fog 21c Museum Hotel Louisville Louisville Kentucky 2006 An installation with the same name is on exhibit at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. [14][15]
Cloud Vessel Fog The Docks Sacramento California 2010 Collaboration with Walker Macy
Digitized Field Wind AT&T Building Santa Rosa California 2004
Divided Sea Water Emerald Glen Park Dublin California 2004 [2]
Duales Systems Pavilion Fog Expo 2000 Hanover Germany 2000 Collaboration with Uwe Bruckner
Enagua Wind Playa Vista Los Angeles California 2015 Collaboration with Johnson/Fain
Encircled Cloud Fog Paradise Ridge Winery and Sculpture Garden Santa Rosa California 2012
Encircled Stream Water Founders Court
Seattle Center 		Seattle Washington 1995 Collaboration with Atelier Landscape Architects
Encircled Void Wind Bertolini Student Center
Santa Rosa Junior College 		Santa Rosa California 2010
Erratic Fence Wind Sonoma County Museum Santa Rosa California 2015 Collaboration with Jensen Architects
Feather Wall Wind Robert B. Green Clinical Pavilion San Antonio Texas 2012 Collaboration with Overland Partners and RTKL
Field of Air Wind Denver International Airport
between Jeppesen Terminal and Westin Hotel 		Denver Colorado 2015 Collaboration with Gensler [16][17]
Fire Vortex Fire/Light Technorama Winterthur Switzerland 1997
Firefly Fire/Light San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Civic Center 		San Francisco California 2012 [18]
Fluvial Storm Sand Exploratorium San Francisco California 1990
Glacial Facade Fire/Light Issaquah Highlands Park and Ride Issaquah Washington 2006
Greenhouse Project Fire/Light San Francisco County Jail 3 San Bruno California 1990
Hyperbolic Paraboloid Wind Crossroads School Santa Monica California 2015 Collaboration with Fred Fisher
Liquid Pixels Wind Rosslyn
1801 N Lynn St 		Arlington Virginia 2002
Magnetic Field Stone Sand Exploratorium San Francisco California 1996
Mare Undurum Fire/Light Tempe Center for the Arts Tempe Arizona 2008
Microturbines Wind Santa Rosa Junior College Santa Rosa California 2009
Net of Indra Fire/Light Automated Garage at City Hall West Hollywood California Collaboration with Rick D'Amato
Pebble Chime Sand Discovery World
Pier Wisconsin 		Milwaukee Wisconsin 2006
Pedibrion Falls Water 21c Museum Hotel Durham Durham North Carolina 2015
Prism Tunnel Fire/Light Children's Garden
Huntington Library Gardens 		San Marino California 2004
Project Lions Wind Debenhams flagship
Oxford Street 		London England 2014 Collaboration with Archial Architects
Quantum Wave Water ATF Headquarters Washington District of Columbia 2008
Rain Oculus Water Marina Bay Sands Singapore 2011 Collaboration with Moshe Safdie [19]
Rainbow Arbor Fog Skirball Cultural Center Los Angeles California 2008 Collaboration with Moshe Safdie [10][20]
Rift Zone Sand Exploratorium San Francisco California [21]
Seismic Sea Water Pasadena Museum of California Art Pasadena California 2009
Sonic Pool Water Children's Garden
Huntington Library Gardens 		San Marino California 2004
Sonic Range Sand Exploratorium San Francisco California 1992 [22]
Spoonfall Water H2 Hotel Healdsburg California 2010
Subducted Landscapes Sand Chevron Texaco Headquarters San Ramon California 2002
Technorama Facade Wind Technorama
The Swiss Science Center 		Winterthur Switzerland 2002
Tipping Wall Water Marina Bay Sands Singapore 2011 Collaboration with Moshe Safdie [10]
Tornado Fog World Financial Center
Battery Park City 		New York New York 1990 Also on exhibit at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. [5][23]
Turbulent Line Wind Brisbane Airport Brisbane Australia 2012 Collaboration with UAP
Turbulent Orb Water World Financial Center
Battery Park City 		New York New York 1990 Also on exhibit at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. [24]
Turbulent Shade File:Chandler City Hall art1.jpg Wind City Hall Chandler Arizona 2010
Vertical Canal Wind Rijkswaterstaat Utrecht Netherlands 2008
The Wave Wind Target Field Minneapolis Minnesota 2010 Collaboration with Tom Oslund and Associates
Wave Oculus Water Union Point Pier Oakland California 2006
Wavespout (Breathing Sea) Water Ventura Pier San Buenaventura California 1993 Destroyed by 1995 storm
Wind Arbor Wind Marina Bay Sands Singapore 2011 Collaboration with Moshe Safdie
Wind Cube Wind [private collection] Santa Rosa California 2005
Wind Fence Wind University of Oregon Eugene Oregon [10]
Wind Fingers Wind [private collection] Sebastopol California
Wind Fins Wind Neiman Marcus Walnut Creek California 2012
Wind House Wind DiRosa Art and Nature Preserve Napa California 2003
Wind Leaves Wind Discovery World
Pier Wisconsin 		Milwaukee Wisconsin 2006
Wind Portal Wind San Francisco International Airport station San Francisco California 2003 [2]
Wind Roundabout Wind Traffic roundabout Fort Worth Texas 2015
Wind Silos Wind International Trade Center Charlotte North Carolina 2006 [25]
Wind Veil Wind Gateway Village Charlotte North Carolina 2000 [2][4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Ned Kahn, Artist and Science Exhibit Designer | Class of 2003". MacArthur Foundation. October 5, 2003. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d Asimov, Nanette (October 5, 2003). "Genius rewarded / 3 from Bay Area win grants from MacArthur Foundation". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "Articulated Cloud". Americans for the Arts. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Wind Veil". Americans for the Arts. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Tornado". Exploratorium. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  6. ^ http://www.dirosaart.org/collection-in-focus-ned-kahn/
  7. ^ Kahn, Ned. "Portfolio". Ned Kahn. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  8. ^ "Aeolian Landscape by Ned Kahn". Exploratorium. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  9. ^ "Articulated Cloud | Ned Kahn". Arch2O. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  10. ^ a b c d Paull, Laura (July 29, 2016). "Humongous wheel at CJM turns Israeli sand into art". The Jewish News of Northern California. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  11. ^ "Braided Stream". Exploratorium. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  12. ^ "Chaotic Pendulum". Exploratorium. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  13. ^ "Circular Wave Umbrella by Ned Kahn". Exploratorium. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  14. ^ "Cloud Rings". Exploratorium. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  15. ^ "Cloud Rings by Ned Kahn: Maintenance Instructions" (PDF). Exploratorium. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  16. ^ Rinaldi, Ray Mark (May 15, 2013). "Denver hopes to buy $2 million sculpture by Ned Kahn". The Denver Post. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  17. ^ Rinaldi, Ray Mark (November 25, 2015). "DIA's $6 million worth of big, new art". The Denver Post. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  18. ^ "Firefly". Americans for the Arts. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  19. ^ "Rain Oculus". Americans for the Arts. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  20. ^ "Rainbow Arbor". Americans for the Arts. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  21. ^ "Rift Zone by Ned Kahn". Exploratorium. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  22. ^ "Artists: Ned Kahn". Exploratorium. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  23. ^ "Tornado by Ned Kahn: Assembly and Maintenance" (PDF). Exploratorium. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  24. ^ "Turbulent Orb". Exploratorium. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  25. ^ "Wind Silos". Americans for the Arts. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
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