About the artwork
Glenn Kaino
Bridge (Rising), 2018
Dimensions(h x w x d): 38" x 51" x 8"
Wood, glass, urethane, paint, LED lights
Located in Fariborz Maseeh Hall, first floor north hallway
Bridge (Rising) is part of a series that centers on casts of the arm of athlete Tommie Smith, famously raised in a human rights salute after winning the gold medal in the 200-meter men’s race at the Olympic Games in 1968. Artist Glenn Kaino describes the 100-foot-long installation Bridge (Rising), created from this repeating form, as “a reconciliation of a historic record, an individual memory, and a public symbol all renegotiated in an infrastructure of time to create stories of the now.”
About the artist
A fourth-generation Japanese-American, Glenn Kaino grew up in Cerritos, Los Angeles. His work flourishes in a hyper-reality of contemporary media and practice that is fitting a youth formed in LA through discipline-crossing experiences in making art, early internet and social media. His aesthetic manipulates extravagant surfaces: polish, gild, mirror, and refined cast objects, to lead viewers into difficult political and social realities.
See more of Glenn Kaino's work on his website.
This work was acquired through Oregon's Percent for Art in Public Places Program, managed by the Oregon Arts Commission.
Banner image: Photo courtesy of the artist.