Del Geist
Del Geist has integrated art into the public realm for more than 40 years. As an artist, using the natural sciences as a palette, he has developed major site-specific artworks worldwide, including England, Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, South Korea, Brazil, Papua New Guinea, Canada, as well as throughout the United States. His environmental artworks elicit unique qualities inherent to a place, fostering a viewer's direct sensory experience. The stone and earth, metaphorically, contain a region's natural history and geology, capturing an area's spirit and flavor.
Among his past projects is Artpark in Lewiston, NY, where he installed a group of 72 slate-on-wood structures; Grizedale Forest Sculpture Park in Cumbria, England, where Silurian slate centered the energy of an old stone quarry; and the University of Papua New Guinea, where Del worked with students installing a teak wood tower using traditional techniques. Other site works are at the West Dade Regional Library in Miami, Florida; an earthwork with steel at the Djerassi Foundation, Woodside CA; a slate and steel monument commissioned by Hartford, CT; a stone and stainless steel tower in Berlin, Germany; and others.
Del Geist and Patricia Leighton collaborated on Barum Stenning in Barnstable, England, commissioned by Devon County Council; on Passage, at the US Border Station, in Roosville, Montana, commissioned by GSA Art-in-Architecture; on Entablature in the Czech Republic; Balance & Equilibrium, commissioned by the City of Ulsan, South Korea and Broadway Green on Broadway, commissioned by the Garment District, New York City; and on other site works.