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Smoke billows at the Exploratorium

Ned Kahn is an environmental artist and sculptor, famous 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 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.[1]

Kahn lives and works in California.

Works

Selected works by Ned Kahn[2]
Title Element Location City State/
Country 		Year Notes Image
Articulated Cloud Wind Pittsburgh Children's Museum Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 2004
Avalanche Sand Museum of Science and Industry Chicago Illinois 2011
Chain of Ether Wind Resmed Corporation San Diego California 2009
Cloud Rings Fog 21-C Museum Louisville Kentucky 2006
Cloud Vessel Fog The Docks Sacramento California 2010 Collaboration with Walker Macy
Divided Sea Water Emerald Glen Park Dublin California 2004
Duales Systems Pavilion Fog Expo 2000 Hannover Germany 2000 Collaboration with Uwe Bruckner
Fire Vortex Fire/Light Technorama Winterthur Switzerland 1997
Firefly Wind Civic Center
525 Golden Gate Ave 		San Francisco California 2012
Fluvial Storm Sand Exploratorium San Francisco California 1990
Magnetic Field Stone Sand Exploratorium San Francisco California 1996
Mare Undurum Fire/Light Tempe Center for the Arts Tempe Arizona 2008
Microturbines Wind Santa Rose Junior College Santa Rosa California 2009
Pebble Chime Sand Waterfront Milwaukee Wisconsin 2006
Prism Tunnel Wind Children's Garden
Huntington Botanical Gardens 		San Marino California 2004
Rainbow Arbor Fog Skirball Museum and Cultural Center Los Angeles California 2008 Collaboration with Moshe Safdie
Spoonfall Water H2 Hotel Healdsburg California 2010
Technorama Facade Wind The Swiss Science Center Winterthur Switzerland 2002
Tornado Fog World Financial Center
Battery Park City 		New York New York 1990
The Wave Wind Target Field Minneapolis Minnesota 2010 Collaboration with Tom Oslund and Associates
Wind Fence Wind University of Oregon Eugene Oregon
Wind Fins Wind Neiman Marcus Walnut Creek California 2012
Wind Leaves Wind Waterfront Milwaukee Wisconsin 2006
Wind Portal Wind SFO BART station San Francisco California 2003
Wind Silos Wind International Trade Center Charlotte North Carolina 2006
Wind Veil Wind Gateway Village Charlotte North Carolina 2000

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.dirosaart.org/collection-in-focus-ned-kahn/
  2. ^ Kahn, Ned. "Portfolio". Ned Kahn. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
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