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You are invited to discover the striking sculpture installations gracing the Blue and Green lobbies at the Pacific Design Center. These captivating pieces, crafted by renowned artists, bring bold, contemporary energy to our iconic spaces, creating a special experience that blends art and design seamlessly.
Courtney Puckett
Anchor Long Gold Loaded Palm. Courage to Pit Achieving Pioneer Emperor. Calm Harmonious Jellyfish Support Process. Sell Collective Mystical Smog Sigh is a sculptural installation composed of 20 repurposed wooden window frames wrapped in reclaimed textiles. Drawn from an evolving archive the artist has compiled over the past five years in sketchbook notes, poems, and reflections while studying and reading tarot, each panel is assigned a color and word corresponding to one of the four elements—earth, air, fire, water. Arranged in a rhythmic sequence of five words per element, the grid-like architecture of the frames supports textile compositions that mimic letterforms. Assembled into a single linear, room-dividing screen, the structure extends along the Blue Lobby corridor of the Pacific Design Center, forming a visual and conceptual passageway, a tactile sculptural poem. Courtney Puckett is a Hudson Valley, NY based visual artist and educator. She has exhibited at Hesse Flatow, Geary Contemporary, Megan Mulrooney, Schneider Museum of Art, Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz, NADA x Foreland, and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. Her residencies include Yaddo, Monson Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, LMCC's Workspace Program, and Vermont Studio Center (full fellowship). Puckett is a 2026 NYFA Fellowship finalist in Craft/Sculpture. She is an Assistant Professor at CT State Northwestern, and has taught at FIT, Parsons, and Pratt. She holds a BFA from MICA and an MFA from Hunter College.
Asher Kelman | Bioforms
"A self-consistent field of organized curvature and hierarchical structure that conveys the presence of life without imitating it." — Asher Kelman, on the Bioforms Asher Kelman is a sculptor and fine art photographer based in Beverly Hills. Trained as a physician and scientist — MD, PhD, board-certified radiation oncologist and microbiologist — he brings a scientist's precision and three decades of fine art photography to his sculptural practice. His permanent public sculpture Puff of Wind, a 13,000-pound, 35-foot kinetic stainless steel work, stands at the Long Beach Museum of Art. The Bioforms are sculptures built from continuous curvature and hierarchical structure — organic forms that convey the presence of life without imitating any single living thing, each balancing asymmetry with void treated as structure in its own right. Kelman's Bioforms will be featured at the Pacific Design Center, installed across the Green and Blue Lobbies, opening September 2026.
Midas Hart | Rhinos Don't Grow on Trees
2016: Genuine US Currency, gold leaf, resin, and fiberglass. One of a kind. midashart.com
Call for Artists
The PDC accepts exhibition proposals from artists and galleries on an ongoing basis. For information contact Art Advisor, Helen Varola, at helenvarola@gmail.com or visit helenvarola.com.