Strength Together  //  Gabe Babcock //  redwood, stone, steel //  2017//  $18,000

Gabe Babcock describes this sculpture as 'balanced tension'. He explains, "From afar, the stone's levitating appearance draws the viewer closer. The stone is locked within the geometry while simultaneously acting as the keystone. It forces the viewer to slow down, observe, and question what is central; or ask, which piece is supporting the other? This frozen moment of chaos offers a revolving experience that leads the viewer to understand that everything a matter of perspective."

SALES INFO: This work is available for sale through the Napa Art Walk program. 10% of all sales made during the exhibition support future Napa Art Walk exhibitions. For more information, please call the City of Napa’s Economic Development Division at 707-257-9502.

Photo by Infinity Visuals.

Squirrel  //  Colin Selig  //  repurposed steel propane tank  //  2016  //   $8,500

“Depending on one’s viewing angle it takes on different animal-like forms. However the most significant shift in perspective takes place when the observer realizes that ‘Squirrel’ was made entirely from a propane tank,” says artist Colin Selig. “Squirrel” is part of a collection of eco-friendly architectural objects including seating, sculpture, planters and bollards designed by the artist.

In describing his creative process, Selig says he selects a regionally sourced scrap tank. Then he carefully dissects and reassembles it, with no additional reshaping of the metal, to create an eco-friendly sculpture that contains 99% post-consumer reused content. He says, “Squirrel is intended to inspire its audience to consider new possibilities for reusing materials and help conserve our planet’s dwindling natural resources.”

SALES INFO: This work is available for sale through the Napa Art Walk program. 10% of all sales made during the exhibition support future Napa Art Walk exhibitions. For more information, please call the City of Napa’s Economic Development Division at 707-257-9502

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Calic  //  Mike Suri  //  steel, zinc, plastic, acrylic  //  2015  //  $10,000

Napa Art Walk Alum Mike Suri says he named this abstract metal piece “loosely based on that funny little twist of hair on top of your head.” As the viewer’s visual perspective changes “these forms and arrangements change the way they relate. My intention is for this human scaled work to attract your attention from afar and hold it when close.”

SALES INFO: This work is available for sale through the Napa Art Walk program. 10% of all sales made during the exhibition support future Napa Art Walk exhibitions. For more information, please call the City of Napa’s Economic Development Division at 707-257-9502.

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Bogenbinder  //  Mikey Kelly//  powder coated steel  //  2014  //   $20,000

Mikey Kelly designed "Bogenbinder" with a “wedging and slight twist… (that when viewed in the round) the lines open and close creating densities of varying degrees. The shape of the piece leads to new perspectives and constantly changing vision lines".

SALES INFO: This work is available for sale through the Napa Art Walk program. 10% of all sales made during the exhibition support future Napa Art Walk exhibitions. For more information, please call the City of Napa’s Economic Development Division at 707-257-9502.

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Color Molecules 2 //  Helle Scharling-Todd  //  powder coated steel, glass  //  2010  //   $15,000

Helle Scharling Todd designed “Color Molecules” as “an homage to the small entities in life, ‘the molecules’”. In her work, she says,  she uses the abstract shapes of circles and semicircles as forms and then adds the different colors in glass to further convey her concept of molecules. She chose to make this abstract sculpture to show the viewer what we cannot see with our eyes; to help us shift into the “micro world”, which she considers “just as big an importance as the macro world… (and can be) also more interesting, because you have to use your imagination to understand it.”

SALES INFO: This work is available for sale through the Napa Art Walk program. 10% of all sales made during the exhibition support future Napa Art Walk exhibitions. For more information, please call the City of Napa’s Economic Development Division at 707-257-9502.

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Solar Flare (from chaos to symmetry)  //  Patricia Vader //  steel, aluminum  //  2015  //  $10,000

Napa Art Walk alum Patricia Vader created this piece by “carefully selecting 36 pieces out of a chaotic pile of bicycle wheels.” For the top half of the sculpture she describes as a “a silvery sun perched atop a copper pedestal or fireworks burst being shot from a cannon. Consider that the sun is not in fact a simple sphere with a well-defined edge as we tend to see it when it rises or sets but a broiling chaotic self-gravitating mass with flares shooting out from its surface.”

To symbolize this flare activity, Vader attached the larger wheels to a thick central rim while allowing the other, smaller wheels to turn freely. Patricia grew up in Holland and says the smaller wheels remind her of “windmills that spin in the slightest breeze”.

In terms of perspective, Vader explains that, “viewing the work from the front, we see an arresting image of perfect symmetry”. However, from the side, “we see what it takes to make this symmetry: a chaotic jumble of spokes - that will appeal to anyone stoked about spokes!”

Photo by Infinity Visuals