Dan Gerhart

Flying Objects: Salt Lake City Corporation: Downtown District (3 year rotating installation), 200 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah; Salt Lake City chose 12 local artists to create a unique interpretation of the theme “Flying Objects”. My work is a “flying fish”, a Betta fish with human arms holding large stainless steel feathers.

Gallus Gallus: Salt Lake County: Draper City Library, 1136 East Pioneer Road, Draper, Utah; Four outdoor bronze sculptures of chickens on Victorian houses, three indoor sculptures: one dozen Emu eggs stacked as a column with a chick on top; a mantle-piece with one dozen eggs and a chick; a mantle-piece with one dozen chicks and an egg.

Bonneville Reliquary: Salt Lake City Corporation: Sugarhouse District, 2100 South 1020 East, Salt Lake City, Utah; A series of seven outdoor bronze sculptures of 5 Bonneville Cutthroat trout (Utah’s state fish) swimming through hoops allegorical of a river, two large medallions in low relief abstractly pictureing a fish underwater and a splash.

Vitruvian Circle: Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration: Global Artways at The Leonardo; Salt Lake City, Utah (temporary installation at Salt Lake Main Library - Children’s Library); An eight foot diameter hoop of bronze children’s hand-prints to be integrated with upcoming sculptural elements for the 2008 opening of The Leonardo. The prints were gathered from more than 200 children at the 2004 Imagination Celebration opening event at the Library Square inauguration.

SLC Pepper Mural: Salt Lake City Corporation: Wall of John Williams, 250 South 400 West, Salt Lake City, Utah; Working in conjunction with Jann Haworth, the original co-designer of the Grammy award winning album cover for the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, this album’s iconic image is re-investigated and updated as a 60’x 60’ mural through the pro-bono effort of many local artists.

Pythagoras: Salt Lake City Corporation: Pioneer Police Precinct, 1040 West 700 South, Salt Lake City, Utah; A series of six abstract geometric sculptures explore the Golden Section in relationship to the Mayan Calendar, and derive societal law from a foundation of natural law. An outdoor abstract form in cast bronze and stainless steel (20' tall x 7' diameter) relates formally to four indoor works in cast bronze and exotic hardwoods (lobby form & three hallway forms, 7' diameter each.)

Orpheus & Eurydice: Marcia Price: Utah Symphony & Opera Production Center, 336 North 400 West, Salt Lake City, Utah; Two 2/3 life-size bronze figures represent the moment Orpheus looks back to Eurydice, losing her to Dis. Also commissioned are two partial figures and an eleven foot tall abstraction of the figures integrated with a fountain, representing the music Orpheus composed upon losing Eurydice.

Orpheus & Eurydice: Marcia Price: Private Residence; An additional pair of figures was commissioned by Ms. Price, a bronze Orpheus and an aluminum Eurydice, representing the moment after Orpheus looks back to Eurydice and she has become Shade.

Winter Olympic Figures: 2002 Winter Olympic Games; Ten metal and light sculptures displayed at the 2002 Winter Olympic athletes’ convention building.

Set Resets: Modern Dance Theater University of Utah; Collaboration with University of Utah Modern Dance for the Trisha Brown Dance Company’s Set Reset. Original sets by Robert Rouschenberg.

Resolution Revolution: Downtown Art Alliance: Gallivan Center, 50 East 200 South, Salt Lake City, Utah; An 18’x 20’x 12’ Rube Goldbergesque sequential machine of welded steel to burn New Year’s resolutions for the Salt Lake City First Night celebration at the Gallivan center. Re-funded the next year for metal screens and video projection.

Fusion: University of Utah Fine Arts Grant: Gallivan Center, 50 East 200 South, Salt Lake City, Utah; Collaboration of Modern Dance / Ice Skating troupe Contemporary Ice Theater with my sculptural forms. Performance for First Night at the Gallivan Center for New Year's Eve.

Recombinant Shawn: Carolyn Hermann: Private Residence; An Aluminum figure from my MFA Exhibition was commissioned in Bronze.

The Creation of Adam: Marblecast Statue Company: Delta Airlines Headquarters, Salt Lake City, Utah; 16"x50" sculpture of the reaching arms derived from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco. Commissioned by Marblecast for the CEO of Delta Airlines.

Hieroglyphs with Horus: Skyline High School: Civic Theater Foyer, Longmont, Colorado; National Art Honor’s Society club project. 3'x18" series of five panels with falcon mascot as Egyptian deity Horus personifying: Math, Science, English, History, and Physical Education.

The Great & Powerful "Ism": Skyline High School: Civic Theater Foyer, Longmont, Colorado; Mural 17'x24', concept passed by committee, fundraising / grant funded, 7 month project, 24 students involved, 30 masterworks depicted, located on civic auditorium in the school.

Bronze Falcon: Skyline High School: Longmont, Colorado; Limited Edition of 17 falcons (6”x3”) for retiring teachers.

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