Title: Fifty Five Degrees
Artist: Adam Kuby
Type: Sculpture
Material: Cor-ten steel
Location: Civic Area, east of the Boulder Public Library
Year: 2020
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Adam Kuby designed and fabricated Fifty Five Degrees for Boulder’s Civic Area, located along Boulder Creek. The artwork consists of three bronze monolithic frames which feature a unique, rectangular composition with an opening that acts as a window or a gateway. The openings frame views of the landscape, the skies above, or the mountains soaring in the distance beyond Boulder’s skyline. Kuby designed the site-specific sculptures to mimic the flatirons visible in the distance. Fifty Five Degrees replicates the exact N-S axis orientation and the 55º slopes of the flatirons.
Adam Kuby creates site-specific artwork for commissions received across the globe. These artworks respond to environmental issues or interconnect with local landscapes. Adam Kuby’s background in landscape architecture, urban forestry, and zoo design informs his arts practice. In the biography available on his personal website, Adam Kuby describes how his work explores “how human and non-human ecologies can come into closer dialogue” through collaborations of his art “with the built and natural world that foster a sense of connectedness in our increasingly fractured environment.
This piece was commissioned thanks to our 1% for Art policy.