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Barry Holden
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Completion Date: 1997
Medium: Granite, concrete, neon, stainless steel
Dimensions: 40' x 8'
Location: Intermediate School 145
Address: 33-44 80th Street, Queens
Architect: School Construction Authority
Sponsor Agency: Board of Education
Design Agency: School Construction Authority
Brief Description:Barry Holden and Nina Yankowitz created The Garden of Games, an interactive environment that features games such as chess and backgammon constructed of granite mosaics and inlaid on to four tables and twenty cast concrete benches. The floor of the plaza is fashioned from different-colored squares of concrete, creating the illusion that even the plaza itself is a game board. Similarly, The Garden of Scientific Ideas features a game-like learning environment. Sited on a terrace, four interactive bronze sculptures sit on stacked concrete bases and educate students on the basic principals of science, including sound, motion, gravity and light. The artists also created the decorative wrought-iron Gate and neon Clock Tower which stands prominently in the schoolyard.
About The Artist...
Nina Yankowitz and Barry Holden are artists who have created numerous public art projects. They have created public benches that are humorous houses tipped on their side for a park in Santa Monica, California, two projects sponsored by the Seattle Arts Commission, as well as a granite and brass inlaid floor for the Department of Transportation in Freehold, New Jersey. Yankowitz created handmade tiles for the 51st Street and Lexington Avenue subway underpass in New York. Current works in process include proposals for large environmental artworks that are created with specifically site related objects that are either fractured or embedded in their mosaic walls in the form of forced perspective rooms or dioramas. Other projects include the use of light to create a feeling of movement or floating.