Ned Kahn
Smoke billows at the Exploratorium
Ned Kahn is an environmental artist and sculptor, famous in particular for museum exhibits he has built for the Exploratorium in San Francisco. His works usually involves capturing an invisible aspect of nature and making it visible; examples include building facades that move in waves in response to wind; indoor tornadoes and vortices made of fog, steam, or fire; a transparent sphere containing water and sand which, when spun, erodes a beach-like ripple pattern into the sand surface. In 2003 Kahn collaborated with Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc. on a piece for the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh consisting of hundreds of movable flaps that respond to the wind creating visible patterns. Kahn won a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" fellowship in 2003, and the National Design Award for environmental design in 2005. His work is in the collection of di Rosa, Napa.[1]
Kahn lives and works in California.
Works
| Title | Element | Location | City | State/ Country |
Year | Notes | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aeolian Landscape | Sand | Museum of Life and Science | Durham | North Carolina | 1993 | .jpg) | |
| Articulated Cloud | Wind | Children's Museum of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | 2004 | _(cropped).jpg) | |
| Avalanche | Sand | Museum of Science and Industry | Chicago | Illinois | 2011 | .jpg) | |
| Breathing Sky | Fog | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | San Francisco | California | 1995 | ||
| Bus Jet Fountain | Water | Transbay Transit Center | San Francisco | California | 2018 |  | |
| Chain of Ether | Wind | ResMed Corporation | San Diego | California | 2009 | ||
| Cloud Arbor | Fog | Buhl Community Park | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | 2012 | Collaboration with Andi Cochran | .jpg) |
| Cloud Portal | Fog | Davis Court | San Francisco | California | 2011 | Collaboration with RHAA | .jpg) |
| Cloud Rings | Fog | 21c Museum Hotel Louisville | Louisville | Kentucky | 2006 | .jpg) | |
| Cloud Vessel | Fog | The Docks | Sacramento | California | 2010 | Collaboration with Walker Macy | |
| Digitized Field | Wind | AT&T Building | Santa Rosa | California | 2004 | .jpg) | |
| Divided Sea | Water | Emerald Glen Park | Dublin | California | 2004 | ||
| Duales Systems Pavilion | Fog | Expo 2000 | Hanover | Germany | 2000 | Collaboration with Uwe Bruckner | |
| Enagua | Wind | Playa Vista | Los Angeles | California | 2015 | Collaboration with Johnson/Fain | |
| Encircled Cloud | Fog | Paradise Ridge Winery and Sculpture Garden | Santa Rosa | California | 2012 | ||
| Encircled Stream | Water | Founders Court Seattle Center |
Seattle | Washington | 1995 | Collaboration with Atelier Landscape Architects | |
| Encircled Void | Wind | Bertolini Student Center Santa Rosa Junior College |
Santa Rosa | California | 2010 | ||
| Erratic Fence | Wind | Sonoma County Museum | Santa Rosa | California | 2015 | Collaboration with Jensen Architects | |
| Feather Wall | Wind | Robert B. Green Clinical Pavilion | San Antonio | Texas | 2012 | Collaboration with Overland Partners and RTKL | |
| Field of Air | Wind | Denver International Airport between Jeppesen Terminal and Westin Hotel |
Denver | Colorado | 2015 | Collaboration with Gensler | |
| Fire Vortex | Fire/Light | Technorama | Winterthur | Switzerland | 1997 | ||
| Firefly | Fire/Light | San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Civic Center |
San Francisco | California | 2012 | .jpg) | |
| Fluvial Storm | Sand | Exploratorium | San Francisco | California | 1990 | ||
| Glacial Facade | Fire/Light | Issaquah Highlands Park and Ride | Issaquah | Washington | 2006 | ||
| Greenhouse Project | Fire/Light | San Francisco County Jail 3 | San Bruno | California | 1990 | ||
| Hyperbolic Paraboloid | Wind | Crossroads School | Santa Monica | California | 2015 | Collaboration with Fred Fisher | |
| Liquid Pixels | Wind | Rosslyn 1801 N Lynn St |
Arlington | Virginia | 2002 | .jpg){kind=tracking} | |
| Magnetic Field Stone | Sand | Exploratorium | San Francisco | California | 1996 | ||
| Mare Undurum | Fire/Light | Tempe Center for the Arts | Tempe | Arizona | 2008 | .jpg) | |
| Microturbines | Wind | Santa Rosa Junior College | Santa Rosa | California | 2009 | ||
| Net of Indra | Fire/Light | Automated Garage at City Hall | West Hollywood | California | Collaboration with Rick D'Amato | ||
| Pebble Chime | Sand | Discovery World Pier Wisconsin |
Milwaukee | Wisconsin | 2006 | ||
| Pedibrion Falls | Water | 21c Museum Hotel Durham | Durham | North Carolina | 2015 | ||
| Prism Tunnel | Fire/Light | Children's Garden Huntington Library Gardens |
San Marino | California | 2004 | .jpg) | |
| Project Lions | Wind | Debenhams flagship Oxford Street |
London | England | 2014 | Collaboration with Archial Architects |  |
| Quantum Wave | Water | ATF Headquarters | Washington | District of Columbia | 2008 |  | |
| Rain Oculus | Water | Marina Bay Sands | Singapore | 2011 | Collaboration with Moshe Safdie | ||
| Rainbow Arbor | Fog | Skirball Cultural Center | Los Angeles | California | 2008 | Collaboration with Moshe Safdie | |
| Seismic Sea | Water | Pasadena Museum of California Art | Pasadena | California | 2009 | ||
| Sonic Pool | Water | Children's Garden Huntington Library Gardens |
San Marino | California | 2004 | .jpg) | |
| Sonic Range | Sand | Exploratorium | San Francisco | California | 1992 | .jpg) | |
| Spoonfall | Water | H2 Hotel | Healdsburg | California | 2010 | .jpg) | |
| Subducted Landscapes | Sand | Chevron Texaco Headquarters | San Ramon | California | 2002 | ||
| Technorama Facade | Wind | Technorama The Swiss Science Center |
Winterthur | Switzerland | 2002 |  | |
| Tipping Wall | Water | Marina Bay Sands | Singapore | 2011 | Collaboration with Moshe Safdie | ||
| Tornado | Fog | World Financial Center Battery Park City |
New York | New York | 1990 | .jpg) | |
| Turbulent Line | Wind | Brisbane Airport | Brisbane | Australia | 2012 | Collaboration with UAP | |
| Turbulent Orb | Water | World Financial Center Battery Park City |
New York | New York | 1990 | .jpg) | |
| Turbulent Shade | Wind | City Hall | Chandler | Arizona | 2010 |  | |
| Vertical Canal | Wind | Rijkswaterstaat | Utrecht | Netherlands | 2008 | ||
| The Wave | Wind | Target Field | Minneapolis | Minnesota | 2010 | Collaboration with Tom Oslund and Associates | |
| Wave Oculus | Water | Union Point Pier | Oakland | California | 2006 | .jpg) | |
| Wavespout (Breathing Sea) | Water | Ventura Pier | San Buenaventura | California | 1993 | Destroyed by 1995 storm | |
| Wind Arbor | Wind | Marina Bay Sands | Singapore | 2011 | Collaboration with Moshe Safdie | .jpg) | |
| Wind Cube | Wind | [private collection] | Santa Rosa | California | 2005 | ||
| Wind Fence | Wind | University of Oregon | Eugene | Oregon |  | ||
| Wind Fingers | Wind | [private collection] | Sebastopol | California | |||
| Wind Fins | Wind | Neiman Marcus | Walnut Creek | California | 2012 | ||
| Wind House | Wind | DiRosa Art and Nature Preserve | Napa | California | 2003 | ||
| Wind Leaves | Wind | Discovery World Pier Wisconsin |
Milwaukee | Wisconsin | 2006 | ||
| Wind Portal | Wind | San Francisco International Airport station | San Francisco | California | 2003 | ||
| Wind Roundabout | Wind | Traffic roundabout | Fort Worth | Texas | 2015 | ||
| Wind Silos | Wind | International Trade Center | Charlotte | North Carolina | 2006 | ||
| Wind Veil | Wind | Gateway Village | Charlotte | North Carolina | 2000 |
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.dirosaart.org/collection-in-focus-ned-kahn/
- ↑ Kahn, Ned. "Portfolio". Ned Kahn. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
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