Artists’ Statement

Curt Belshe & Lise Prown

All us around are signs, austere or complex, informational or contradictory, superstitious or factual, helpful or absurd – all demanding our attention and rewarding our gaze with some form of comprehension. The process of deriving meaning and assigning significance is key to these pieces which examine the intersection of public art, local history, nature, and information graphics. These pieces combination familiar forms with unfamiliar images as well as text that can function at the level of information, pattern, or concrete poetry.

These transient public artworks use the language of signage to examine expectations of signification in an urban environment. Our goal when working in the public sphere is to reach as broad a cross section of viewers as possible while creating artwork that is accessible and artistically engaging.