Artist Cliff Garten has been approved by the Dublin City Council to create a conceptual design for public art at the BART Station entry within the Dublin Transit Center. The artist will be unveiling his design for the BART location and welcomes the public’s opinion. The design will be on display for two weeks and comment cards will be available.

Garten is the founder of Cliff Garten Studio in Venice, CA. Garten’s practice integrates architecture, landscape and engineering as means of positioning his sculpture in the public realm. By connecting people to places and infrastructure through social history, ecology, and material, Garten’s work locates the latent potential in every public place and situation to become more than the specific functions it appears to perform. Sculpture and landscape, function and form, like public and private experiences are never distinct, but exchange places throughout the day.

Garten received his Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and his Master of Landscape Architecture with distinction from the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Garten is the recipient of two Individual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bush Foundation Fellowship for Individual Artists, the Bush Foundation Leadership Fellowship, and the Jerome Foundation Travelling Artist Grant. The American Society of Landscape Architects has cited many of his works for design excellence.

The Dublin Transit Center Artist Reception will be held on Thursday, July 1, 2010, at 6:45PM in the Dublin Civic Center Lobby. Hors d’oeuvres will be served.

An example of Garten's work in Ft. Worth, TX, called Avenue of Light