Tag: Cottage Gallery

Featured in The Art & Architecture of Maybe Terry Berlier (b. 1972)Infinity Walk, 2014Balsa wood, wire, dowels, plywood, glue30 x 13 x 6 in.Courtesy of the artistPhoto by Paul Gallo Infinity Walk is interdisciplinary artist Terry Berlier’s audacious proposal for a suspended bridge-like structure that intertwines two redwoods on Montalvo’s grounds. This walkable sculpture was not intended for the fainthearted. To get to the platform in the shape of an infinity symbol, visitors would need to climb a ten-foot rope ladder. The work is intended to be a slow meditation on the concept of infinity. The act of traversing the platform becomes a contemplation of what it means to be unbounded or endless, to approach something with no beginning or end.   Berlier’s maquette offers a daring reimagination of Montalvo’s woodlands. The structure allows humans to temporarily inhabit a realm that…

Featured in The Art & Architecture of Maybe Lee Mingwei (b.1964)Grandfather’s Incline, 2009Bass wood41 x 25-1/2 x 39 in.Long-term loan from Stephan Freid Artist Lee Mingwei, in collaboration with architect Stephan Freid, conceived Grandfather’s Incline as a proposal for a permanent public artwork on the grounds of Montalvo Arts Center. Known for participatory installations that explore trust, intimacy, and self-awareness, Lee envisioned the project as both a contemplative space and a tribute to his grandfather.  The proposal emerged from Lee’s search for a site within Montalvo’s wooded landscape that recalled a mountain location in Taiwan where his grandfather would hike to meditate on the distant terrain. In response, Lee and Freid designed an elevated…

Featured in The Art & Architecture of Maybe Tony May (b. 1942)The Buildings in Winter, 2026Digital photograph (captured on iPhone 6s)Courtesy of the artist Follies, also known as “eyecatchers,” are ornamental architectural structures created to delight the eye and spark the imagination. Playful, idiosyncratic, and intentionally impractical, they celebrate architectural fantasy in contrast to architecture’s usual emphasis on function and efficiency.  Inspired by a trip to Japan in 1983, artist Tony May began constructing his own contemporary folly: the T.House, a structure rooted in curiosity and experimentation. Beginning as an addition to his garage, the project evolved over the course of a decade into a…

Featured in The Art & Architecture of Maybe Rebeca Méndez (b. 1962)Walking the Earth: Oregon, 20252-channel videoCourtesy of the artist Rebeca Méndez’s immersive video is an intimate portrait of a human figure walking through all 9 ecoregions of Oregon, from the Willamette Valley to the Columbia Plateau. The work captures 54 vertical landscapes, each depicting a record of the artist walking the earth at the horizon line between dawn and dusk. Through her lens, the biodiversity of the landscape unfolds as an unbroken continuum. Walking the Earth: Oregon investigates walking as research, resulting in a meditation on nature, and a call for deeper collective thinking (and action)…