Public Art - Horizon Line

Raleigh Arts Commission

Horizon Line employs cutting-edge light technology to create two colorful, imaginative spaces for pedestrians entering and exiting City Plaza. Designed by Chapel Hill artists Susan Harbage Page and Juan Logan with Peter Egan, the installation of sixteen 4x8-foot LED lighting panels conceals unsightly electrical utility equipment adjacent to the BB&T and Bank of America buildings at Raleigh's downtown City Plaza. Horizon Line is a spectrum of colors and forms that slowly shift in relation to seasonal changes in temperature, creating movement within the surrounding area. Horizon Line was unveiled as part of the opening of City Plaza in October 2009.

Susan Harbage Page's art can be found in many public and private collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the Israel Museum. Page teaches in the studio art department at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Juan Logan, who also teaches in the art department at UNC-Chapel Hill, has had works featured in over 250 solo and group exhibitions in venues across the country including exhibitions at North Carolina Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem. Logan recently completed designing the plaza in front of the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art and Culture at the Wells Fargo Cultural Campus in Charlotte.

Artists' Statement - Susan Harbage Page and Juan Logan

We turned to the cutting-edge technology of LEDs because they offer a full spectrum of colors that can be combined to make varying shapes and patterns that can be orchestrated to change over time. We constructed boxes that would diffuse the light and worked with a programmer to vary the intensity and timing of color changes of more than 900 LEDs. The ever-changing light exhibition is based on horizon lines found in North Carolina and includes abstracted sunrises and sunsets as well as a starry night sky.

To contact the artists, visit www.juanlogan.blogspot.com or www.susanharbagepage.com

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