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2016 < View Public Art Projects Astral Challenger 2016 Permanent Art Project Commissioned by the City of Lancaster as part of the Arts and Public Places program, “Astral Challenger” was created by Los Angeles-based artist Shana Mabari. The sculpture was commissioned in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, and was installed at the intersection of Challenger Way and Avenue L. Challenger was assembled at the Palmdale Lockheed plant and used what is now known as Challenger Way as its transportation route from Palmdale to Edwards Air Force Base. Formerly named 10th Street East, the street was renamed shortly after the disaster by the Lancaster City Council to honor the lives that were lost. The blue panels on the sculpture represent the seven lives lost, plus an additional panel for the remaining loved ones who still mourn their loss. The roundabout was opened in February, 2016, and “Astral Challenger” was installed in May.

Previously known as POW!WOW! Antelope Valley, Antelope Valley Walls™ is returning with a bang for its fourth installment September 11-17 as international and local talent adorn the community with vibrant murals throughout the Antelope Valley. 2024 Mural painting started Sunday, September 8, with artists putting their first strokes to the wall for the week-long endeavor. Previously known as POW!WOW! Antelope Valley, Antelope Valley Walls™ has returned for its fifth installment September 8-16 as international and local talent adorn the community with vibrant murals throughout the Antelope Valley. These new murals will accompany previous murals painted in 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022, adding 13 new murals for the Antelope Valley community. Artists will paint throughout the week and final murals will be ready to view by September 17. MEET THE ARTISTS Amandalynn Grazier Ben Brough Brandon Thompson Carlos Mendoza Carly Ealey Chloe becky Christopher Konecki Kim Sielbeck Lily Brick Lori Antoinette MamaWisdom Nuri Amanatullah Sasha Swedlund Sean Banister Christopher Minsal Spenser Little Jayson Bascos Kelsey Brown Tina Dille Vojislav Radovanovic Yolanda Glass Mural Map 2018 2020

back to list Jayson Bascos Jayson Bascos, also known as “State”, is a local artist whose preferred medium is spray paint. Bascos likes to explore realism and lettering for his subject matter but is never afraid to try different styles. Bascos majored in Chemistry in college, so all his artistic skills were self-taught, with some guidance from his artistic peers. Bascos has been painting for 12 years and is currently working as a tattoo artist and muralist.

back to list Andrew Hem Raised as the child of Cambodian immigrants in Los Angeles, Andrew Hem’s illustrative paintings bridge disparate aesthetic influences as well as cultural touchstones and sensibilities. Hem’s paintings typically highlight an individual within a group of figures, homing in on the one person who is often somberly staring out from the canvas. Using a cool palette in which the colors do not quite match up with the real world, the artist creates somber moods in illusionistic spaces set at a remove from reality. Although his color scheme—with its supernatural rendering of the natural world—elicits comparisons to impressionism, Hem also echoes graffiti art based on his straightforward and illustrative rendering of figures and space, as well as allusions to street culture, art, and fashion.

< Back Chelsea Dean Featured Structure Artist Chelsea Dean is an American multidisciplinary artist whose work examines and documents the relationship between the landscape, home, and time. While rooted in photographic processes, Dean’s work is ultimately an assemblage of various media. She utilizes paint, collage, print, illustration, as well as found objects to help produce a physical interpretation of the spaces she encounters. Informed by her time spent in and around decrepit and abandoned desert dwellings in southern California’s Wonder Valley, her artistic practice is defined by both structure and entropy. Physical and metaphysical structures can be examined in her work through the use of architecture and personal artifacts that link the memories of an almost forgotten, bygone era to today’s consciousness. These elements are in constant flux, left to the mercy of the natural world. Time proves to be the main subject of her work, acting as the catalyst for decay. Aspects of home life are prominent in Dean’s work. Remnants of a past life no longer act as detritus, but instead embody a sense of humanity. The use of older furniture, rugs, and other home decorations are utilized in her installation works while her mixed-media and photographic work are filled with the imagery of structures and interior spaces. This highlight of the domestic space creates a sense of familiarity within her work. Architectural elements such as wooden posts and siding are showcased in a deteriorated state. Metallic media such as silver foil and gold leaf act as a reminder of once glamorous and ambitious ideals of past homesteaders now left behind. Textures of paint, fabric, and paper inform the idea of domesticity. Her compositions tend to hold a state of tension between environmental stresses and man-made structures, capturing moments that seem to perpetually teeter towards the edge of oblivion. Dean earned her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from the University of Puget Sound in 2000 and then her Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate University in 2005. Dean has exhibited work in numerous group and solo exhibitions worldwide at galleries such as PØST, Cirrus Gallery, Gallery Lara Tokyo, as well as many others. She currently resides and continues her art practice in Los Angeles, California. Previous Next

back to list Carlos Mendoza Carlos Mendoza is a local Antelope Valley artist who considers himself an art rebel, with his art style demonstrating a raw and free essence. Mendoza has been painting murals in the Antelope Valley for six years but he also works with acrylic, oils, wire, and whatever he can get his hands on. Mendoza utilizes the lack of public art in certain areas of the Antelope Valley inspiration as a driving force for his murals, often as a part of transformation projects for schools around the AV. For Mendoza, public art is an essential part of providing citizens a sense of pride in their community and giving youth a sense of hope for their future. Mendoza aspires to venture outside the Antelope Valley and paint murals in Mexico.

Galia LinnVessels and GuardiansSurrounded by archeological sites and spaces in war-torn Israel, Galia Linn gained inspiration from ancient and contemporary relics from past and present civilizations. She reacts to these relics and stories through her sculptures, paintings, and site-responsive installations. < Back Galia Linn, Stone Guardian Galia Linn, Studio Shot Galia Linn, Ancient Vessels of the Divine Galia Linn, Stone Guardian 1/6 Galia Linn Vessels and Guardians Surrounded by archeological sites and spaces in war-torn Israel, Galia Linn gained inspiration from ancient and contemporary relics from past and present civilizations. She reacts to these relics and stories through her sculptures, paintings, and site-responsive installations. Linn creates imperfect vessels used to relay the elemental tensions between the material she works with and the stories and relics that emerge. Through the cracks, fissures, ruptures, and fractures within Linn’s ceramics, metalworks, paintings, and installations, she imbues an aged aesthetic that references layers of Middle Eastern history. For Linn, the imperfect nature of her works is meant to show the vulnerability of humankind and the grandeur and form allude to the interior strength and resilience. Brokenness should be embraced as the objects come to symbolize perseverance and healing, where there is no separation between the vessels she creates and her physical body. Previous Next

back to list Spenser Little Spenser Little is a self-taught artist who has been bending wire for the last 15 years, allowing his creativity to morph into images that range from simple wordplay to complex portraits. He has related his wire work to a mixture of playing chess and illustration, as the problem-solving component of the work is what continues to inspire him to create larger and more complex pieces.

Aili SchmeltzCairn 24Informed by the environmental, philosophical, and architectural histories of the American West, artist Aili Schmeltz creates sculptures and wall-hung works that combine painting, collage, embroidery, and ceramics. Her practice stems from a fascination of the desert landscape, research into feminist history, and an examination of the politics and utopian ideology associated to the development, destruction, and conservation of the West. < Back Aili Schmeltz, Cairn 24 Detail Aili Schmeltz, Cairn 24 Detail Aili Schmeltz, Cairn 24 Studio Angle Aili Schmeltz, Cairn 24 Detail 1/7 Aili Schmeltz Cairn 24 Informed by the environmental, philosophical, and architectural histories of the American West, artist Aili Schmeltz creates sculptures and wall-hung works that combine painting, collage, embroidery, and ceramics. Her practice stems from a fascination of the desert landscape, research into feminist history, and an examination of the politics and utopian ideology associated to the development, destruction, and conservation of the West. Schmeltz’s Cairn sculpture series employs architectural structural elements from Brutalist, Utopic, and Modernist traditions and echo the igneous rock and native plants of California’s Mojave Desert. The sculptures are a culmination of simplified and abstracted architectural motifs combined with the rough and weathered textures of earthenware. These elements are stacked and notched together, intertwining the architectural ideas of optimism with an awareness of the raw and unrefined elements that provide the material make-up of the work, creating objects that appear as hybrid futuristic relics. Previous Next

Kevin KowalskiSculptural LandscapesInspired by the natural word, artist Kevin Kowalski creates ceramic works that call to the visual landscapes around him. His travels and experience in clay provide the foundation for his creative process, allowing him to develop his skills in techniques such as mocha diffusion and many other decorative processes. < Back Kevin Kowalski, Sculptural Landscapes Kevin Kowalski, Sculptural Landscapes Kevin Kowalski, Sculptural Landscapes Kevin Kowalski, Sculptural Landscapes 1/3 Kevin Kowalski Sculptural Landscapes Inspired by the natural word, artist Kevin Kowalski creates ceramic works that call to the visual landscapes around him. His travels and experience in clay provide the foundation for his creative process, allowing him to develop his skills in techniques such as mocha diffusion and many other decorative processes. Kowalski’s series, Sculptural Landscapes , captures the beauty and chaos of industrial and natural processes. The surfaces of each vessel are texturally dense and entropic. Shards and outcroppings of clay appear from a smooth surface that itself is coated in a colorful and runny glaze, culminating into an abstract sculptural landscape. Utilizing a variety of different clays, glazes, found rocks, and the use of multiple flashing slips, the works are a visual amalgamation of a built landscape and organic environmental elements. Previous Next

2nd Floor Mural Custom Aerospace Mural Curated by the Lancaster Museum of Art & History 1/1 1 - Ninety-Nine Womens Flight Group, 1932 Photographic Print 2012.999.48 MOAH Permanent Collection Gift of Edwards Air Force Base (AFFTC-HO) Amelia Earhart being greeted at the United Airport in Burbank, CA on July 3, 1932 by women pilots from the Ninety-Nines Flight Group, L-R: Pancho Barnes, Elizabeth McQueen (founder of the Women’s International Association of Aeronautics), Amelia Earhart (completed the first solo crossing of the Atlantic by a woman in 1932), Clema Granger, Elizabeth Kelly Inwood, Gladys O’Donnell, Janet Roberts, Mildred Morgan, Valentine Sprague. All except McQueen were registered pilots. 2 - Jackie Cochran and Chuck Yeager, 1962 Photographic Print 2012.999.62 MOAH Permanent Collection Gift of Edwards Air Force Base (AFFTC-HO) Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran owner of Jacqueline Cochran Cosmetics, who became a world-class competitive pilot, was the woman to break the sound barrier, she flew a Northup T-38 with Chuck Yeager flying beside her. She also designed the first oxygen mask. 3 - USAF Aircraft being flown by Iven C. Kincheloe Photographic Print 2012.999.63 MOAH Permanent Collection Gift of Edwards Air Force Base (AFFTC-HO) 4 - Thomas C. McMurtry Photographic Print 2012.999.64.01 MOAH Permanent Collection Gift of Edwards Air Force Base (AFFTC-HO) Thomas McMurtry was a former U.S. Navy pilot and Lockheed Corporation consultant before joining NASA in 1967. McMurtry was Associate Director for Operations at NASA Dryden from July 27, 1998, and also served as Dryden's acting Chief Engineer from February, 1999 until his retirement. In 1982, McMurtry received the Iven C. Kincheloe Award from the Society of Experimental Test Pilots for his contributions as project pilot on the AD-1 Oblique Wing program. In 1998 he was named as one of the honorees of the Lancaster, CA, ninth Aerospace Walk of Honor ceremonies. In 1999 he was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. 5 - Convair YF-102 Delta Dagger at Edwards Air Force Base, 1955 Photographic Print 2012.999.45 MOAH Permanent Collection Gift of Edwards Air Force Base (AFFTC-HO) 6 - USAF test pilot Robert A. (“Bob”) Hoover Photographic Print 2012.999.61 MOAH Permanent Collection Gift of Edwards Air Force Base (AFFTC-HO) 7 - NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Photographic Print 2012.999.60 MOAH Permanent Collection Gift of Edwards Air Force Base (AFFTC-HO) 8 - William John "Pete" Knight Photographic Print 2012.999.55.02 MOAH Permanent Collection Gift of Edwards Air Force Base (AFFTC-HO) William John “Pete” Knight, who holds world record for flight speed in a winged vehicle, graduated from the Air Force Experimental Flight Test Pilot at EAFB in 1958. After more than sixteen flights in the X-15A-2, Knight became one of five people to earn astronaut wings by flying an airplane into space. 9 - Chuck Yeager and Kit Murray shaking hands in front of an X-1A Photographic Print 2012.999.65.01 MOAH Permanent Collection Gift of Edwards Air Force Base (AFFTC-HO)