Uptown Triangles (Adduci)

Uptown Triangles
Artist	John Adduci
Year	2009 (2009)
Dimensions	610 cm × 370 cm × 300 cm (20 ft × 12 ft × 10 ft)
Location	North 48th St. and West Libson Ave., Milwaukee
Coordinates	43°3′38.999″N 87°58′25.553″W / 43.06083306°N 87.97376472°W / 43.06083306; -87.97376472Coordinates: 43°3′38.999″N 87°58′25.553″W / 43.06083306°N 87.97376472°W / 43.06083306; -87.97376472

Uptown Triangles is a public artwork by artist John Adduci, located on the corner of N. 48th St. and W. Lisbon Ave. which is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The work is a monumental sculpture in the form of intersecting triangles made of aluminum. It is 20 feet tall, 12 feet in width and 10 feet in depth and sits on a concrete foundation. The piece was created in 2009 and is owned by the Uptown Crossing Business Improvement District BID 16.

Description

Chicago native and artist John Adduci's Sculptural creation Uptown Triangles is a monolithic form of intersecting lines and geometry that graces Milwaukee Wisconsin's North West intersection of N. 48th St. and W. Lisbon Ave. in the neighborhood of Uptown Crossing. It is a relatively new addition to Milwaukee having been created in 2009. The sculpture consists of seven large triangular forms of varying size that horizontally intersect two square vertical pillars that cross one another to approximate an "x" form. The triangular shapes curve slightly creating a formal contrast with the straight linear pillars. The entire sculpture is constructed of aluminum and left bare to show the natural silver coloring of the material. The sculptural structure is supported by the two crossing vertical beams which are fastened with large bolts to the concrete base which is a horizontal triangular form. This piece of monumental art stands 20 feet tall and is 12 feet in width and 10 feet wide. Uptown Triangles was commissioned by the Uptown Crossing Business District to add a cultural focal point to the thriving commercial center that is now its home.

Historical information

The Uptown Crossing Business District of Milwaukee Wisconsin's near west side was created in 1995 as a first step in revitalizing and improving the historically commercial area that runs along West North Avenue from N. Sherman Boulevard on the east to N. 60th Street on the west and along West Lisbon Avenue from N. 46th Street to N. 51st Street. In 2007 the Uptown Business District board started accepting proposals for a public art work to enhance the triangular island at the prominent intersection of N. 48th St. and W. Lisbon Ave. After a process of public review the sculptor John Adduci of Chicago was chosen for the commissioned work. John Adduci created the piece off sight and brought it in two pieces to the sight to be installed. It was bolted together and craned into place and secured to the concrete foundation. The artwork was dedicated at a ribbon cutting ceremony on July 21, 2009 which was attended by Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and the artist John Adduci.

Artist

John Adduci is a Chicago born and based structural sculptor born in 1948. Adduci graduated from Southern Illinois University in 1971 with a bachelor's degree in Fine Art and went on to earn a Master's of Fine Art at Arizona State University in 1975. He has since that time worked from his Chicago-based studio fabricating various works of art in aluminum, bronze and steel. Since 1984 he has created many sculptures for public art placement across the United States. Most of Adduci's work is large scale arrangements of abstracted and simplified geometric forms rendered in fabricated metal. Some of his recent works include Prairie Dance, 2009, Bronze, Located in Cary, NC and Whip It, 2009, Bronze, Located in Altona, Manitoba, Canada.

Location

Milwaukee Wisconsin USA at the corner of N.48th St. and W. Lisbon Ave.

References

http://www.adducisculpture.com/About.html

http://www.uptowncrossing.com/Aug09.pdf

http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2010/06/john-adduci/

Milwaukee public art

Downtown	The Victorious Charge Family The Calling Wisconsin Workers Memorial Wind Leaves Birds of Knowledge of Good and Evil The Great Double Woodland Indian and Whistling Swans Solomon Juneau Leif, the Discoverer Letter Carriers' Monument Argo Bronze Fonz Walkways Through the Wall Abraham Lincoln George Washington Referee Immigrant Mother King Gambrinus RiverSculpture! Gertie the Duck General Douglas MacArthur The Spirit of Polonia World War I Memorial Flagpole Pedestrian Drama Midsummer Carnival Shaft Acqua Grylli Laureate Diana Trigon Pere Jacques Marquette Spanish-American War Soldier Ruins X Ex Stasis City Yard Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Peter John A Beam of Sun to Shake the Sky Rainbow Machine Topiary Lucere Dancing Through Life Gertie Gets Her Ducks in a Row Mother Teresa Monument Jacques Marquette You Rise Above the World The Last Alarm

North Side	Celebrating the Arts Christian Wahl Elk On Watch Pattern Lapham Memorial Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. here, mothers are... Music Fishing Spirit of the Firefighter Dauntless Guardian Buildings 1992 Gear 23 All in the Air at Once First Flight Sea of the Ear Kindred Ties

East Side	Cleopatra's Wedge Float Polyphony Boy with Goose Eight Stone Lions Three Bronze Discs Holocaust Memorial Happy-Go-Luckies of Nature and Technology Blue Dress Park Sentinels Hermes Milwaukee Eclipse 'X' Intertwining Compass Erastus B. Wolcott Sharing the Load Robert Burns Near Here Compass Walk Like a River Spillover II Tip Jantar-Mantar Cass Street Park Brady Street Beasts Connect Fairies Candles

South Side	Menomonee Count Casimir Pulaski Spirit of Commerce Bay View Series A Place to Sit Stratiformis The Hill Climber Deflected Jets Angel in a Cage R.D. Whitehead Monument Memorial for Belle Austin Jacobs T.A. Chapman Memorial Nature Belle Oops, Missed Space Game Engine Company No. 10 William A. Starke Memorial Steel Reborn Red Flower Rising General Thaddeus Kosciuszko Patrick Cudahy Memorial SOARING Two Opposites Reaching Up Toward the Peak of Progress Edge Elements Ribbons VI Bridge Stone Bracelet Untitled Quartet Tending the Fire Bird and Fish The Sower The Reaper Giving Gifts

West Side	Henry Bergh Goethe–Schiller Monument Chrysalis The Ideal Scout Uptown Triangles Tree of Life Magic Grove Steuben Monument Kneeling Camels Teamwork Aaron Monument Yount Monument Selig Monument Uecker Monument Fire and Water Vliet Street Commons Miller Valley Veterans Monument Children of the West End

Lynden Sculpture Garden	Sinai Wandering Rocks Sea Form (Atlantic) Sky Fence Floating Sculpture No. 3 Mo, Ni, Que Trio Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9 Way Four Compound Junior Salem No. 7 Bremen Town Musicians Ancestor Queen of Sheba Rhythm in Space Peristyle, Three Lines Orizzontale Embrace Ursa Major Three Graces Large Torso, Arch Double Up Upstart The Lovers Poland Axeltree Orbits Ritual II Hara Olympus The Lovers Tensione No. 2 The Source Rainbow Unfolding Vegetative Sculpture I Round About Lodgepole Twist for Max Bench-Stone Windfall Knife Tree Conversations with Magic Stones, Figure Three Conversations with Magic Stones (Magic Stone Three) Kumo Untitled Arch Epicenter Epicenter II III Columns Flight Pin Oak I

Mobile projects	Overpass Light Brigade

Overview	List of public art in Milwaukee

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