Past Work For Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by Patrick Heagney, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by A J Brown, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by A J Brown, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by A J Brown, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by A J Brown, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by A J Brown, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Phoenix
as Design Team
Completion Date- 2021
24’ x 6’ x 6’
Enameled steel
City of Pleasant Hill, Iowa
Phoenix is an informal monolith that represents the upcoming and vital community of Pleasant Hill. The art work is a bold, colorful and iconic form/signifier with a central spine and populated with a series of custom aluminum branches extruding away from the center and creating an overall vertical dynamic form. Our concept is to create visual ambiguity and play with effects that are created by merging, blending, overlay, shadows and other visual parameters. With a series of individual and unique components, the artwork constantly appears in new light and transforms during the day. It is our goal that the art piece will offer a moment of thought and inspiration to its viewers and users while projection a contemporary and bright future for the Pleasant Hill community.
Description by Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
INFLIGHT
as Design Team
Completion Date- 2021
24’ x 72’ x 4’
Powdercoated aluminum
Maryland Arts Council
Inflight was designed through a collaborative process to visualize and materialize the unique environment, creativity, and dynamic nature of the UMBC community and its campus at large. We selected inspiration images such as a diagram showcasing a model for ‘therapy in response to cancer patients’, taxonomical graphs of ‘air pollution’, ‘microscopic projections’ of research produced in the Robinson Lab, and photographs of dancers performing a choreography in a dramatic and colorful light inside the Dance Cube. We noticed how all these processes constantly evolved, shifted, and moved. Inflight is trying to capture this movement and development. Situated within the atrium of the new ILSB building, the artwork aims to inspire students, faculty, staff, and the many visitors who come to explore the state-of-the-art facility.
Description by Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Bloom
as Design Team
Completion Date- 2017
20’ x 18’ x 4’, 24’ x 10’ x 4’
powder-coated aluminum
City of Denver, Colorado
A two-fold artwork, Bloom is situated on the north and south corner of the new Eviva building facade. It creates a visual and formal connection between the newly established Eviva community with the adjacent Denver Arts District and its cultural agenda. The artwork is fabricated out of hundreds of unique and individual CNC cut aluminum pieces.
The project specifically engages with architectural elements such as the corner and the facade. Composed out of hundreds of unique and individual elements, the plume-alike compositions form an abstract landscape of geometries which perform several tasks.
They act as an ornament to the building, they communicate between the audience and its architectural context and they play magic tricks by producing OP art a-like effects.
Bloom represents the mobility and dynamic nature of the Golden Triangle community, a neighborhood that provides the City of Denver with a center for its cultural development.
Description by Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by Keenan Hock, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by Keenan Hock, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by Keenan Hock, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Phantom Pavilion
as Design Team
Completion Date- 2018
16’ x 24’ x 16’
Powdercoated aluminum
City of Central Park, Colorado
Reflection occupies the south corner of the Concert Hall building on the Fort Lewis College campus. It is inspired by the soft, colorful and iconic landscapes surrounding Durango and Fort Lewis College. Wrapping around two brick facades, the installation partly eliminates the corner and parapet of the concert hall introducing an alternative tectonic solution to the building volume.
With hundreds of individual and unique components, the art piece appears to be in motion and constantly changing. It represents the mobility and dynamic which this college has to offer as a center of cultural development and environmental appreciation. The choice of vibrant colors is a homage to the picturesque Durango landscape while providing an opportunity to celebrate multiplicity, diversity and integration on the Fort Lewis campus. With its fluid forms and landscape of colors, the art piece welcomes its visitors, guests, and the local community to campus and the concert hall.
Description by Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by Patrick Heagney, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by Patrick Heagney, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by Patrick Heagney, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Reflection
as Design Team
2016
60’ x 40’ x 4’
Powdercoated aluminum
Fort Lewis College
Reflection occupies the south corner of the Concert Hall building on the Fort Lewis College campus. It is inspired by the soft, colorful and iconic landscapes surrounding Durango and Fort Lewis College. Wrapping around two brick facades, the installation partly eliminates the corner and parapet of the concert hall introducing an alternative tectonic solution to the building volume.
With hundreds of individual and unique components, the art piece appears to be in motion and constantly changing. It represents the mobility and dynamic which this college has to offer as a center of cultural development and environmental appreciation. The choice of vibrant colors is a homage to the picturesque Durango landscape while providing an opportunity to celebrate multiplicity, diversity and integration on the Fort Lewis campus. With its fluid forms and landscape of colors, the art piece welcomes its visitors, guests, and the local community to campus and the concert hall.
Description by Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by Patrick Heagney, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by Patrick Heagney, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by Patrick Heagney, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by Patrick Heagney, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Super Nova
as Install Team
2015
12’ x 24’ x 5’
Powdercoated aluminum
University of Colorado Denver
The Super Nova project is located within the main atrium of the New Academic Building on the UC Denver campus. Facing Speer Boulevard and Downtown Denver, the artwork is mounted to the auditorium wall and partly suspended in space. The concept for the design work consists of a series of geometrical ellipses representing the connectivity, bond and unifying spirit within the UC Denver community. The ellipses are distributed throughout space and connected with single surfaces creating a almost maze-alike structure.
Titled ‘SuperNova’, the project is based on a dynamic expression of movement and the evolution of form over time. SuperNova is a definition which describes the forming of new stars, growth, development and interaction, all ideologies we discover at UC Denver and the New Academic Building.
Description by Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by Patrick Heagney, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by Patrick Heagney, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Photo by Patrick Heagney, Courtesy of Volkan Alkanoglu
Jetson
as Install Team
2015
12’ x 6’ x 18’
Powdercoated aluminum
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Jetson project is an art installation at the Georgia Institute of Technology within the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons. Located at the Tennenbaum Atrium the design is suspended within space and hovering above the main entrance lobby. The design is established by 5 distinct ellipses representing the five colleges at the Institute which are connected by several single surface links. As a color choice the design reflects gold, white and black which are historic GT colors.
Jetson possesses a futuristic appearance with intriguing notions of innovation and technology. It is constructed out of hundreds of unique anodized and painted aluminum shapes and is build in reference to the structure of a monocoque airplane.
Description by Volkan Alkanoglu