Mark Reigelman is an American artist based in

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. He is recognized for his large-scale

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, including ''Manifest Destiny'' at the Hotel des Arts in San Francisco, California, and ''Smökers'', a series of miniature houses positioned over steam-emitting manholes in

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Background

Reigelman was born in

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. He pursued his studies in Sculpture and Industrial Design at the

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and furthered his education in product design at

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, University of the Arts in London. He currently resides in Brooklyn, in a loft apartment that he redesigned.

Notable works

Reigelman's artworks have been exhibited in galleries, museums, and public spaces, including the

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, the

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(MoMA), and the Shanghai Museum of Glass. His ''Rock Boxes,'' in Cleveland, Ohio, produce snippets of music as pedestrians make their way to the

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. Across the country, his ''Formation'' installation, which consists of three sets of screens featuring styles of airplanes, representing local aeronautic history, adorns the façade of

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. In San Francisco, Reigelman crafted ''Manifest Destiny'', a site-specific artwork showcasing a rustic cabin affixed to the side of the Hotel des Arts. By 2016, he devised ''Smökers'', mobile art installations influenced by the German incense smokers called ''

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''. These small wooden cabins were designed to conceal steam-emitting manholes throughout New York. Two years later, Reigelman designed the playground at Domino Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, drawing inspiration from the sugar manufacturing process in homage to the site's history as the location of the Domino Sugar Refinery. The city of Alexandria in Northern Virginia commissioned Reigelman to produce an artwork for the ''Site: New Views in Old Town'' Series in 2021. The resulting piece, ''Groundswell'', was displayed in Waterfront Park in Alexandria from March to November 2021. Later in the same year, the city of Columbus, Ohio, unveiled another of Reigelman's creations, ''The Makers' Monument''. This 20-foot stainless steel installation, resembling crystals and perforated with items symbolic of the city's manufacturing history such as saw blades and rocking horses, stands as a tribute to the goods produced in the city. ''The Makers' Monument'' was later included in Coda Worx' 2022 Coda Awards Top 100 Pieces of Public Art in the World.

Other public art works

* ''Stair Squares'', 2007, Borough Hall, Brooklyn, New York * ''White Cloud'', 2012, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio * ''Rainbow Gathering II'' (The Huddle), 2013, Kendall College of Art and Design * ''Reading Nest'', 2013, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland Ohio * ''Upriver/Downriver'', 2015, Waterfront Park, Louisville, Kentucky * ''NidoSilla'' (Nest Chair), 2015, Monterey, Mexico * ''Curioser'', 2021, New York Public Library, Charleston Branch, New York * ''Wheelhouse'', 2022, Jennie Dean Park, Arlington, Virginia * ''Threshold'', 2023, Custom House Square, New Bedford, Massachusetts * ''Edge of the Forest'', 2023, Inman Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Awards and recognitions

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Reigelman, Mark Artists from Brooklyn Artists from Cleveland American sculptors American male sculptors 21st-century American sculptors Cleveland Institute of Art alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people)