We've got to cross this great big world somehow Date: 2016-2018 Location: Los Angeles Airport, Terminal 3, Los Angeles, CA Commissioning Agent: Los Angeles World Airports, Department of Cultural Affairs, and The City of Los Angeles Medium: Hand-dyed, 100% cotton, fire-retarded ropes, wood, paint, hardware Size: 103 x 30.8 x 28 feet / 31.4 x 9.4 x 8.5 meters Comprised [...]
Large-scale photographic works Date: 2016 Location: Los Angeles, CA Commissioning Agent: The City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs Medium: Sublimated dye on di-bond aluminum Size: 50 x 70 inches each / 1.27 x 1.778 meters (framed) This artwork was created by Geckler after she was awarded the City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Mid-Career Master Artist 2016 Fellowship. Geckler proposed beginning a [...]
Your escape from patterns your parents designed Date: 2016 Location: Los Angeles, CA Commissioning Agent: The City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs Medium: Flagging tape, extruded aluminum Size: 10 x 10 x 10 feet / 3.05 x 3.05 x 3.05 meters This artwork was created by Geckler after she was awarded the City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Mid-Career Master Artist 2016 Fellowship. Geckler proposed beginning a [...]
Scenic pastures Date: 2005 Location: Geckler’s (then) Studio at the Santa Fe Art Colony Medium: Flagging tape, hardware, wood, paint Size: 28 x 18 x 12 feet / 8.53 x 5.49 x 3.66 meters “Scenic Pastures” was created for the 2005 Santa Fe Art Colony Open Studio Event at Geckler’s then studio utilizing three parallel overhead sprinkler pipes [...]
Your history’s like fire from a busted gun Date: 2005 Location: Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California Medium: Flagging tape, hardware, wood, paint Size: 16 x 16 x 14 feet / 4.88 x 4.88 x 4.27 meters Connecting to a series of beams, electrical conduits and HVAC ducting at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, [...]
Twisted under, sideways down Date: 2010 Location: Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Los Angeles, California Commissioning Agent: Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) and the DCA Public Art Program Medium: Flagging tape and suction cups Size: 12 x 6 x 6 feet / 3.66 x 1.83 x 1.83 meters The points along the four walls of the glass vitrine were [...]
Through looking back you may go blind Date: 2011 Location: Avant-LA, Los Angeles, California Medium: Flagging tape, hardware Size: 15 x 10 x 10 feet / 4.57 x 3.05 x 3.05 meters Using the existing beams and columns of the gallery, strands crisscrossed and tilted forward, terminating at individual eye hooks before streaming up the [...]
Lay it down and start up Date: 2011 Location: Los Angeles, California Commissioning Agent: Creative Artists Agency (CAA) Medium: Flagging tape Size: 23 x 23 x 17 feet / 7.01 x 7.01 x 5.18 meters (skylight), 70 x 5.5 x 6 feet / 21.34 x 1.67 x 1.83 meters (atrium) Skylight Custom designed for the west coast [...]
Set a course for wayward schemes Date: 2008 Location: 5th and Main Streets, Downtown Los Angeles, California Commissioning Agent: Made possible in part by a Durfee ARC Grant Medium: Flagging tape, wood, paint, custom designed and fabricated lights Size: 40 x 30 x 5 feet / 12.19 x 9.14 x 1.52 meters Located on what was, at the [...]
Chop down your masterplan in nanoseconds Date: 2014 Location: MAMA Gallery, Los Angeles, California Medium: Flagging tape, pedestal Size: 127 x 24 x 108 inches / 3.23 x 0.61 x 2.74 meters Using a concrete brick cutout window as a point of departure and inspiration, strands of the flagging tape from the base of the pedestal are [...]