A colorful, constantly changing public art installation is now on the way for Rosslyn鈥檚 .
Arlington Public Art is teaming up with the Rosslyn Business Improvement District and developer JBG Smith to host the new work of art at Central Place Plaza (1800 N. Lynn Street), just across from the Metro station.
California-based artist will be working to install and program the piece from now until Thursday (July 12), according to a county press release. The 150-foot-wide, 15-foot-tall LED artwork, titled 鈥淕ravity and Grace,鈥� will be projected onto the top two floors of the parking garage at the site.
鈥淭he ever-changing artwork incorporates real-time environmental data that organizes its spectral shifts of color,鈥� the county arts program wrote in the release. 鈥淏oth color field painting and blues guitar inspired the design of the artwork. If the work of art were played on a guitar, you might say that the programmed environmental factors are really what are strumming the chords of color you see on the wall.鈥�
The county added that Norm Schwab of the design firm Lightswitch and artist Pablo Molina helped write algorithms for the artwork 鈥渢hat drives the color and motion transitions in the artwork.鈥�
鈥淭he significant pieces of real-time environmental data tied to the artwork vary daily and show significant fluctuations over long periods of time, such as temperature and extreme weather tied to climate change,鈥� the county wrote. 鈥淭his shifting data introduces chance into the structure of the artwork pulling data from factors like local variations in Arlington鈥檚 temperature, river level, traffic patterns or water usage.鈥�
Garten, who is also the the 鈥淐orridor of Light鈥� art installation coming to N. Lynn Street鈥檚 intersection with Lee Highway and I-66, will host an 鈥渙n-site artist talk鈥� about the installation tonight. The event will start at 9 p.m.
Photo via Arlington Public Art
