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This vortex-shaped, temporary outdoor installation warped the flow of space with a featherweight rendition of a celestial black hole. The piece functioned as a shade structure, swirling overhead for the summer and creating a space for social interaction and contemplation.

Pulp Pavilion was an architectural experiment in material composites using reclaimed paper; it served as a bold, colorful canopy space and respite from the sun. Historically inapplicable to structure and long considered disposable, paper exhibits unique sculptural capabilities when recycled into pulp.

We invited visitor exploration by extending the casual social terrain of the campus into the gallery, transforming it into an interactive traversable rolling playground.

City of Santa Monica, Santa Monica Arts Commission Table Cloth was a temporary performance space in the courtyard, which served as an integrated set piece, backdrop, and seating area for student musical performance and social interaction. After the run of the installation, the components were dismantled to become immediately available commodities – tables and chairs. Commissioning Entity: UCLA Arts Initiative; The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

Ball-Nogues Studio collaborated with American Apparel, using 10,000 items of their manufactured clothing for this hanging structure. Each garment serves the dual role of building component and clothing article. Over the course of the Biennale, the installation was dispersed to visitors.

City of Santa Monica, Santa Monica Arts Commission Description: An aggregation of mirror polished stainless steel spheres, the sculpture operates structurally like an enormous Newton's Cradle toy. Each ball is suspended by a cable from a point and locked into position by gravity and neighboring balls while reflecting a distorted image of passersby.

Approximately 900 stainless steel spheres together create an abstracted mountain form that is void in the center. The surrounding landscape is reflected within each of the spheres and its shape quite literally suggests features in the natural landscape of the Edmonton region.

A body of luminous radiation projecting from the corner of a building, the piece conjures images of the human aura in historical religious artwork or images of the effects of magnetic forces in scientific literature. As the viewer moves along the boulevards, the reflection of moving cars and changing lighting conditions transform the appearance of Corner Glory into effervescent light.

The piece pays homage to the simpler days of baseball, of watching the great American pastime through a wooden fence. It acts as a buffer between a ballpark, a playground, and the street, providing safety while allowing coincidental encounters with the game that spur inspiration in children and passers-by.

1141 catenary chains descend from an elliptical ring beam and then return skyward on a new path forming two shells of color. This translucent 3D painting was fabricated with a custom built cutting machine.

Air Garden is both an object and an atmosphere that changes depending on the viewing angle and quality of light. It is a serene moment amidst the hectic action and movement within the space of the airport.

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Ball-Nogues Studio

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Artist Email: inquiries@ball-nogues.com

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Medium: Large-scale site-specific works. Mixed-media:metal/plastic/concrete/paper pulp/etc

About the Artist

Ball-Nogues Studio is an integrated design and fabrication practice, led by Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues and operating in a territory between architecture, art and industrial design. We aim to create experimental built environments and installations that enhance public spaces through sensation, spectacle and physical engagement.

Our work is informed by the exploration of craft and essential to each project is the “design” of the production process itself. Operating as artists as well as fabricators, we devise proprietary systems of construction, create tools, develop custom software and explore new materials with the aim of expanding the potential of the physically constructed world. With a solid understanding of construction and engineering, we allow the properties, limitations, and economic scenarios associated with a project improvise a structure’s ultimate form. In this way, each piece inherently embodies a unique narrative, form and meaning.

Ball-Nogues Studio brings over 30 years of combined professional experience to our art practice. Prior to collaborating, Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues both worked for major architects and were involved in a diverse spectrum of design and fabrication projects ranging from sculptures and installations, to large public buildings and urban design. Our backgrounds enable us to successfully interface with community groups, contractors, engineers, architects, planners, city officials and public art consultants. We often consult a team of professionals, such as the international multi-disciplinary engineering firm Walter P Moore and the lighting consultants of First Circle Design. To date, we have completed 21 permanent commissions and over two-dozen temporary environments and installations.

The Studio has exhibited at major institutions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum; PS1; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Venice Biennale; the Hong Kong | Shenzhen Biennale; and the Beijing Biennale. We have received numerous honors including three American Institute of Architects Design Awards, United States Artists Target Fellowships and a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. In 2007, the Studio was the winner of the Museum of Modern Art PS1 Young Architects Program Competition and the work is part of the permanent collections of both MoMA and LACMA.  In 2011, we were one of the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices and in 2014 were finalists for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize in Emerging Architecture. Benjamin and Gaston have taught in the graduate architecture programs at SCI-Arc, UCLA, and USC. The Studio’s work has appeared in a variety of publications including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Architectural Record, Artforum, Icon, Log, Architectural Digest, Mark and Sculpture.