Photographing Public Art – In Skokie

Cee is hosting the Photographing Public Art Challenge this week and featuring some interesting art finds in Oregon. I didn’t go quite so far afield for these shots, just a 30-minute drive up the road to the Northshore Sculpture Park in Skokie.

The Gandhi Memorial Sculpture is actually located in Heritage Park which adjoins the Northshore Sculpture Park. I thought I’d photographed the name of the artist but apparently not. I tried Google to see if I could find it but none of the articles that I read mentioned his or her name.

Inside Plant by Andy Zimmermann

Trinity by Fisher Stolz

Trunnion ll by Dale Graham

Baile de Alacran by Ted Garner

The parkway, that runs parallel with the north branch of the Chicago River and McCormick Boulevard, makes a pleasant walk and the sculptures give it an added interest. It’s been a few years since we were over this way so there were one or two new pieces to see, along with some familiar ones.

Reverie by Sheila Oettinger

Lazarus and the Rich Man by Aaron Lee Benson

International Leader by John Himmelfarb

Shadow by Lucy Slivinski

Clio by Sharon Loper

Fairy Circle by Mark Chatterley

La Souterraine by Robert Smart

Shown here are just a few of the sculptures on view to the public in the Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park here in Illinois.

Photographing Public Art – In Rockford

This week, Cee is featuring metal art as she hosts the Photographing Public Art Challenge. I found some interesting pieces of artwork, some of which were made of metal, at Sinnissippi Gardens in Rockford the other day. I don’t know if the last image qualifies as artwork but I like to think of it as such, with the artist using flowers as their medium.