Campbell and Central Avenue

Al Price / Phoenix, AZ

For Al Price, a local artist and former teacher, the goal of the artwork at the Campbell station was to provide a dynamic and engaging experience for students attending nearby high schools and to create a feeling of elegance timelessness for the neighborhood. A hyperbolic parabola, derived from the shade canopy, is the starting point for a three-dimensional grid that undulates and flows, creating both heightened spatial depth and water-like motion.

The entry way sculpture takes advantage of the changing perspective of a viewer who is in motion: from below, the simple geometric shapes overleap and slide past each other resulting in a dynamic optimal effect. The artwork also casts amazing shadow patterns on the different surfaces below, which change depending on the position of the sun.