Nancy Rubins | Concord Pacific | Canada's Largest Community Builder

Concord Pacific is pleased to announce the installation of a new permanent outdoor sculpture by the renowned Los Angeles-based artist Nancy Rubins.

Public Art Program in Burnaby

In keeping with our long history of participating in public art programs in the other cities where we have developed communities, this monumental work will be the first public art project that Concord Pacific will install in Burnaby. As with most municipalities in the Metro Vancouver region, the City of Burnaby has a public art program that includes public art in new development projects as a way to enrich and enliven the public realm.

After following the City's recommended artist selection process involving arts professionals and representation from the City of Burnaby's Planning Department and Public Art Program, and Concord Pacific, the artist selection panel unanimously selected Nancy Rubins based on the strength of her artwork concept proposal, its suitability for the plaza space, and her considerable experience and renown for developing large-scale sculpture for the public realm.

Concord Brentwood Phase One

Rubins is well known and highly regarded for her large-scale assemblage sculptures using boats. The sculpture that is currently being installed in the plaza space on Lougheed Highway at Concord Brentwood Phase One will add a colourful node of interest to the plaza for the enjoyment of local residents, pedestrians, cyclists, people passing by in vehicles and passengers on the SkyTrain.

This sculpture has been designed and constructed to meet all required structural engineering and safety codes local to this jurisdiction in the province of British Columbia. Similarly, the sculpture installation process that is currently underway in the plaza com-plies with all the rigorous local construction safety requirements that protect the personnel involved in the installation work and the public.

About Nancy Rubins' Sculptures

Nancy Rubins is an acclaimed sculptor and installation artist based in Los Angeles, California known for her large-scale public sculptures comprising assemblages of recognizable ready-made objects collected from domestic, industrial and recreational sources. Hot water heaters, mattresses, appli-ances, toys, construction trailers, airplane wings, camping trailers, surfboards, canoes, kayaks and rowboats have all been used to create her sculptures which take-on clustered forms that employ ambitious structural cantilevers and tensile cabling resulting in arboreal-like formations.

Connoting biological growth patterns and fluidity, Rubins' monumental sculptures suggest movement. Her sculptures made with boats suggest the botanical form of a blooming flower. Rubins' outdoor sculp-tures often take on a scale that is architectural in nature making them well-suited to public space in urban centres alongside large buildings.

Winnie's Pleasure by Nancy Rubins Media Kit

Nancy Rubins Biography

Born in 1952 in Naples, Texas, Nancy Rubins was raised in Tullahoma, Tennessee. She graduated with a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore in 1974 and then went on to complete an MFA at the University of California, Davis in 1976. Rubins taught in the Department of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1982 to 2004. Her work has been collected into numerous public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; and the FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France.

Rubins' work is on permanent outdoor display at several art institutions and universities around the world including the Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the University of Texas at Austin, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego and l'Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Temporary outdoor displays of Rubin's large-scale sculptures have been installed in Florence, Italy; Graz, Austria; Navy Pier in Chicago, Lincoln Centre in New York, and at MOCA, Los Angeles. Nancy Rubins is currently repre-sented by the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills and the Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago.