Seattle
artist Linda Beaumont creates public and private artworks
within the Pacific Northwest. She is a versatile artist with
a well established reputation for both studio and public art.
She utilizes a number of materials in her work, including
glass, stone, terrazzo and fiberglass.
Traveling
Light, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Seattle
WA 2003. This interior art glass environment is part of the
Port of Seattle's Terminal Expansion Program for Seatac airport.
Seatac is a home to an impressive collection of contemporary
and regional art. This piece consists of 85 floor to ceiling
panels around an escalator entrance and separating the security
area.
The work addresses the
history of the lumber industry in the Northwest, with an ebullient
use of wood grain patterns and images. Each panel is built
of two sheets of 1/4 tempered float glass elaborately
silkscreened with silver stain, air and hand brushed with
vitreous enamel, and fired. Certain areas have been etched
with a photo resist process to produce very fine half tones
in the figures. The panels are assembled as a standard laminated
safety glass panel, and installed by the site glazing contractor.
Seattle Biomedical
Research Institute 2004, These two glass and metal outdoor
structures border the entrance to the facility. The image
depicts electron microscope photographs of the DNA sequencing
of a rare disease, one studied at this new research facility
in Seattle. The panels are 1 thick triple laminated
panels, incorporating two layers of printed film.
This suspended piece
in the building lobby connects exquisitely painted lenses
on a single steel cable. Each lens was formed from two pieces
of slumped float glass and dichroic glass, which were painted
and fired before being glued together to form convex lenses
which reflect and transmit light. The pieces are free to spin
on the cable.