Title: Unfolding
Artist: Sharon Dowell
Type: Sculpture
Material: Paint, aluminum
Location: Broadway Ave. between Violet Ave. and Lee Hill Dr.
Year: 2024
Unfolding, commissioned in 2018 and completed in 2024, celebrates the artists and creative evolution in the NoBo Art District through vibrant color and inspiration from native flora and fauna, abstracted marble butterfly wings and showy milkweed, with painted aluminum panels attached to bus shelters and gateway bridge elements.
North Carolina artist Sharon Dowell is a painter with a focus on works on canvas, murals and public art. Intertwining themes course through her work; the energy of place, renewal, regeneration, and redemption. She believes that creative place making communicates distinctiveness and generates connections across communities. Thus, it is important for her murals and public art to also serve as a vehicle to give back and shape communities for the better.
