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Photo: Liam Young, Planet City

PDC Design Gallery

Views of Planet City | PDC Design Gallery
Curator Led Walkthrough with Liam Young

Walkthroughs will take place during Fall Market in two sessions: 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM. The PDC Design Gallery will be open until 6 PM.

Is it possible to design a socially and environmentally sustainable city for seven billion people? Views of Planet City imagines what the world might look like if humanity were to reverse the urban sprawl, and its entire human population were to be housed inside a single, hyperdense megalopolis. Drawing on the ideas of pioneering scientists and futurists and projecting on the basis of already gestating technologies, Views of Planet City challenges dystopian visions of the cities of tomorrow and offers an alternative vision: a scenario in which urbanization at a planetary scale is not incompatible with the safeguarding of Earth’s biodiversity. The project sheds light on various aspects of the Planet City hypothesis through presentations of speculative design, design fiction, and simulation.  Views of Planet City is on view through January 26, 2025.

Cumulus, 81"x 18" x 18", Douglas Fir

Blue lobby Exhibit:

Brandon Stieg

Brandon Stieg is a sculptor whose love of the natural world and industrial relics of the past influence his creations. From a young age, he was fascinated by the mysteries of our reality and the imaginary worlds he could create in his drawings. Stieg majored in studio arts and architecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since then, he has dedicated his life to honing those skills, working in metal and wood, and asking the hard questions that give his work meaning. His metalwork is hand-forged, formed, and fabricated in steel, copper, brass, and bronze. Due to the level of detail and finish he can achieve in these mediums, his work is often mistaken for bronze castings, and as a result, Stieg’s work is recognized around the world among metal artists and collectors alike. Stieg’s wood carving work is the Yin to the Yang of his meticulous metal craft and contrasts significantly in style and approach. Characterized by smooth surfaces and curvilinear forms with an emphasis on balance, his work celebrates the inherent beauty of the wood’s grains and patterns and the creativity of the natural environment. Stieg’s work is conceptual in nature and explores the human experience and the many questions we share as we navigate our reality. He currently resides and works in northern California.  For more information, please visit: destagallery.com/artist/brandon-stieg/ 

There's Something Wrong With Our Eyes | Steel and Urethane Resin 80 x 60 x 16"

Blue lobby Exhibit:

Ben Godward

Ben Godward presents Between Light and a Hard Place, an exhibition of new sculptures combining wedges of stratified polychrome resin with welded steel forms. The works address Pacific Design Center’s boldly colored red, green and blue sculptural shapes through their asymmetrical, intense painted fragments that balance gracefully upon steel. The work also references the modern landscape; the yellow of highway safety and the blue of sky reflecting glass curtain wall. Elements of light and space movement are present with the weight and permanence of minimalism. The perfection of both are muted as upon closer inspection the hand of the artist is present and imperfections rejoiced. Godward’s artworks ultimately highlight an interaction of forms that combine color and sculpture in which painterly chaos of resin drips, pours and splashes is tempered by sculptural unity. Ben Godward lives and works in Brooklyn NY. He received his M.F.A. in Sculpture from the State University of New York at Albany and won the 2007 Outstanding Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture. He has shown extensively in New York including such galleries as Transmitter, Marc Straus, Elijah Wheat Showroom, Slag, Famous Accountants and NorteMaar. Godward has also completed large outdoor public art projects at Franconia Sculpture Park, MN and Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY. His work has been featured in The L Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Sculpture magazine and on WNYC Radio.

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