Mags Harries |
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 | Mags Harries' public art projects have received national recognition and have won many awards. They are also popular and accessible. She observes the small things that, like DNA, reveal all that is important to know about a place. She looks for the charged image, the jolt of electricity that often lies dormant, but can be released to energize a public place and the community. Some of her older projects, such as Asaroton '76 cross walk at Boston's Haymarket and Glove Cycle at the Porter Square, Cambridge MA, subway station, have become landmarks for communities. |
| Mags frequently designs her work with landscape materials and responds to environmental issues. She has an increasing interest in water and city scale elements of infrastructure, pathways and connections. She has recently been producing glass sculpture at the Pilchuck Glass School and direct casting small bronze works in Ayutthia, Thailand. Mags teaches sculpture and public art at the Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts and gives lectures and workshops around the country on public art and residencies creating temporary art installations. Besides the projects shown here, works are in progress along waterways in Phoenix, San Jose and Lowell, MA. Recently she received a grant to study ancient stepwells in India. She has exhibited her work in numerous one-person and group shows and installations in museums and institutions around the country. |
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| Lajos Héder |
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Lajos Héder is an environmental artist with a background in architecture and urban design. He has spent his career designing and building public places for active community use. He believes that art derives from the specific place where it happens and from common interests in life, death, sunlight, water, sex, food, friendship, stories, etc., not so much from other art. Lajos' strengths are understanding urban scale and activity, visualizing architectural spaces from drawings and fitting the art works into the process of design and construction. Besides his public art work with Mags shown on this web site, he has designed many downtown pedestrian plans and 6 completed artists' live/work communities. He was also the designer of prize winning entries for two international competitions in his native Budapest, Hungary: the new National Theater in 1989 and Expo '96 in 1990. |
| Lajos' research and publications include the book Aesthetics in
Transportation on art and design, prepared for US DOT, and a draft Art Plan for Tucson. Since 1992, as a member of the Boston Society of Architects Focus Teams, he has been working on the New Urban Ring to set new transportation and development patterns for the Boston area and on the re-planning of the Seaport. His current work includes creating solar energy generating sculpture in Austin, river and canal trails in Lowell MA, Phoenix AZ and San Jose CA, incubating ideas for community spaces and land art projects. He is committing increasing amounts of energy to difficult projects involving public spaces and environmental stewardship of waterfronts. |
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