New Project Ahead!
Mags Harries & Lajos Héder with Connie Roy-Fisher are pleased to have been selected for the North Courtyard Enhancements Public Art Project at the Palm Beach County Convention Center!
Mags Harries & Lajos Héder with Connie Roy-Fisher are pleased to have been selected for the North Courtyard Enhancements Public Art Project at the Palm Beach County Convention Center!
“The truly spectacular moments at the Light Gate only occur twice a year on January 27th and November 14th. It’s on these dates that the setting sun shines right through the hole like a cosmic key,” writes Samreeve on Light Gate. Full Article: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/light-gate
For more on the project please visit: https://harriesheder.com/project/light-gate/
Mags Harries & Lajos Héder’s SunFlowers, An Electric Garden was selected as the imagery for the 2016 Renewable Energy Law conference presented by The University of Texas School of Law. The photo by David Newsome shows some of the 15 SunFlowers illuminated at night along I35 in Austin. SunFlowers, An Electric Garden generates energy for its own lighting, and the additional energy its solar collectors produce is fed into the electric grid.
The Sculptor’s Eye: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from the Collection
October 3, 2015 through March 20, 2016
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum 51 Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln, MA 01773
Details on the exhibition: decordova.org.
Listen to the clip here: Mags Harries WBUR
Drones Are Changing How We See- And Think About- Our World by WBUR’s Curt Nickisch and Greg Cook included a conversation with Mags Harries about her recent work The Disappearing Drumlin, a drone collaboration with Boston Virtual Imaging.
Mags Harries created The Disappearing Drumlin for 34, a show about the Boston Harbor Islands at Boston Sculptors Gallery. The piece focuses on Sheep Island. Once nearly 30 acres in size, the island is now less than 3 acres as a result of waves lapping on its shores. The work features aerial drone video of Sheep Island by Matthew Murphy of Boston Virtual Imaging.
Topiary at the Prospect Park Zoo will be a stop on the #NYCultureOnWheels tour of public art this July.
Mags Harries and Lajos Héder’s public art piece Light Gate was dedicated February 25th 2015 in Manhattan Beach, CA.
Light Gate sits atop 14th Street in Manhattan Beach, CA.
Installation is underway for Light Gate in Manhattan Beach, CA.
Its stainless steel frame arrived at 14th Street in Manhattan Beach, CA on January 14th 2015.
The public art piece by Mags Harries and Lajos Héder will be complete in February, 2015.
More on the project here.
The sun sets perfectly in Light Gate twice a year- January 27th and November 14th. Shown is an image from January 27th, 2015. The public art installation in Manhattan Beach, CA opens February 2015.
More on Light Gate here.
Mags Harries and Lajos Héder’s Light Gate for Manhattan Beach, CA is taking shape! Learn more.
Fabrication is underway on Harries Héder’s Light Gate for Manhattan Beach, CA.
Fabrication is being done by Jim Gallucci.
Mags Harries and Lajos Héder’s work Xixi Umbrellas for the 2012 West Lake International Invitational Sculpture Exhibition in Hangzhou, China is featured in CODAmagazine: Water Forms. See it here.
Mags Harries and Lajos Héder created not one but seven ideas for their initial proposal for the Tidal Lagoon in Swansea Bay. All of their proposed tidal art sculptures would be activated by the unique conditions the Tidal Lagoon. Their proposal was given a two page spread in the catalogue produced by Cape Farewell showcasing the Tidal Lagoon proposals that were selected to the next round of the competition. Read more.
Mags Harries’ work is featured in a review of Sculpture Embraces Horticulture in the September 2014 Issue of Artscope Magazine. The show will be up through October 31st at Blithewold Mansion, Gardens, & Aboretoreum.
Mags Harries and Lajos Héder are pleased to announce the opening of their latest public art project in Greensboro, NC Meeting Place.
Mags Harries and Lajos Héder’s public art work Passage is featured in CODAmagazine’s latest issue: Technology + Art. Read the article.
In “Greenway art proposal is unveiled” Dawn DeCwikiel-Kane describes Harries/Héder’s design Meeting Place for the “Tradition Cornerstone” of the Downtown Greenway in Greensboro, NC. To read the full article and to learn more about the project, follow the above links.
The public art project Meeting Place under construction in Greensboro, NC.