Mark Reigelman Explained

Mark Reigelman
Birth Place:Cleveland, Ohio
Website:https://www.markreigelman.com

Mark Reigelman is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He is recognized for his large-scale public art, including Manifest Destiny at the Hotel des Arts in San Francisco, California, and Smökers, a series of miniature houses positioned over steam-emitting manholes in New York City.

Background

Reigelman was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He pursued his studies in Sculpture and Industrial Design at the Cleveland Institute of Art and furthered his education in product design at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts in London.[1] He currently resides in Brooklyn, in a loft apartment that he redesigned.[2]

Notable works

Reigelman's artworks have been exhibited in galleries, museums, and public spaces, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and the Shanghai Museum of Glass.

His Rock Boxes, in Cleveland, Ohio, produce snippets of music as pedestrians make their way to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Across the country, his Formation installation, which consists of three sets of screens featuring styles of airplanes, representing local aeronautic history, adorns the façade of the San Diego International Airport.[3]

In San Francisco, Reigelman crafted Manifest Destiny, a site-specific artwork showcasing a rustic cabin affixed to the side of the Hotel des Arts.[4]

By 2016, he devised Smökers, mobile art installations influenced by the German incense smokers called Räuchermann.[5] These small wooden cabins were designed to conceal steam-emitting manholes throughout New York. Two years later, Reigelman designed the playground at Domino Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, drawing inspiration from the sugar manufacturing process in homage to the site's history as the location of the Domino Sugar Refinery.[6]

The city of Alexandria in Northern Virginia commissioned Reigelman to produce an artwork for the Site: New Views in Old Town Series in 2021.[7] The resulting piece, Groundswell, was displayed in Waterfront Park in Alexandria from March to November 2021. Later in the same year, the city of Columbus, Ohio, unveiled another of Reigelman's creations, The Makers' Monument.[8] This 20-foot stainless steel installation, resembling crystals and perforated with items symbolic of the city's manufacturing history such as saw blades and rocking horses, stands as a tribute to the goods produced in the city. The Makers' Monument was later included in Coda Worx' 2022 Coda Awards Top 100 Pieces of Public Art in the World.[9]

Other public art works

Awards and recognitions

!Year!Recipient!Award / Recognition!Award-giving body
2020CurioserExcellence in Design[20] New York City Public Design Commission,38th Annual Awards for Excellence in Design
2019The Meeting HouseNational Recognition to the Best in Public Art Projects[21] Americans for the Arts, Year in Review
2017SmökersNational Recognition to the Best in Public Art Projects[22] Americans for the Arts. Year in Review
2015Mark Reigelman2015 Windgate Fellowship Project Grant[23] Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce
2006Mark Reigelman2006 Windgate-Lamar Fellowship Grant[24] Center for Craft

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Magyarics . Kelly . 2021-04-07 . Alexandria Unveils Latest Installation In Annual Public Art Series "Site See" . Northern Virginia Magazine . en-US.
  2. News: Harris . Elizabeth A. . 2008-10-31 . The Primal Loft . en-US . The New York Times . 0362-4331.
  3. Web site: 2018-12-26 . A Flight Inspired Art Installation for the San Diego International Airport . Contemporist.
  4. Web site: Pichot . Emilie . 2013-09-20 . Impart: Brooklyn artist Mark Reigelman argues art should trigger sensory experience . The Rapidian . en.
  5. Web site: Robinson . Melia . This artist is going around covering New York City manholes with a tiny house . 2023-10-19 . Business Insider . en-US.
  6. News: McDermon . Daniel . 2018-06-07 . Testing Brooklyn’s Newest Playground at Domino Park in Williamsburg . en-US . The New York Times . 0362-4331.
  7. Web site: Hageman . Allison . 2021-03-25 . New public art brings waterfront’s history to the surface . Alexandria Times . en-US.
  8. Web site: Goldsmith . Suzanne . 2021-07-28 . Seven Questions With Makers Monument Sculptor Mark Reigelman . Columbus Monthly . en-US.
  9. Web site: McLaughlin . Jack . 2022-06-28 . This Columbus sculpture was named one of the top 100 pieces of public art in the world . 614NOW . en-US.
  10. Web site: Stair Squares . The Accessible City . en.
  11. Web site: 2010-06-18 . Artist Mark Reigelman brings White Cloud to CMA . Cleveland Institute of Art . en.
  12. Web site: Jobson . Christopher . 2013-06-20 . The Reading Nest: A New Installation by Mark Reigelman Using 10,000 Reclaimed Boards . Colossal . en.
  13. Web site: Kramer . Elizabeth . 2015-08-28 . Louisville’s new public art works unveiled . The Courier-Journal . en-US.
  14. Web site: Upriver/Downriver Mark Reigelman . Archello . en.
  15. Web site: 2015-01-14 . Mark Reigelman installs a Giant Nest Chair in Monterrey, Mexico . urdesign . en.
  16. Web site: 2021-06-22 . The New York Public Library’s Brand New Charleston Branch Expected to be Completed by End of Year . The New York Public Library . en.
  17. Web site: Hudson . Ryan . 2022-05-20 . Arlington Celebrates Opening of Renovated Jennie Dean Park . Arlington, Virginia . en-US.
  18. Web site: Chitwood . Seth . 2023-06-28 . A celebrity visited a DATMA exhibit in New Bedford on Saturday. This is who it was. . New Bedford Standard-Times . en-US.
  19. Web site: 2023-08-15 . Have You Seen The Giant Deer In Inman Square? - Cambridge Arts - City of Cambridge, Massachusetts . Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  20. Web site: D'Angelo . Madeleine . 2020-10-28 . NYC Public Design Commission Announces Winners of the 38th Annual Awards for Excellence in Design . The Journal of the American Institute of Architects.
  21. Web site: 2019-05-15 . The Meeting House . Americans for the Arts . en.
  22. Web site: 2019-05-15 . Smökers . Americans for the Arts . en.
  23. Web site: 2015-04-28 . 2015 Windgate Fellows announced by The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design . Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce . en-US.
  24. Web site: Center for Craft . Center for Craft.

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