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MAY 2008: Amazing - more gold awards pouring in than we can track... see our BBC AWARD PAGE
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Nov 9, 2007 - INCREDIBLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS!
Watch this blog - we're about to post scads of new pages and images to showcase Elizabeth's major projects and commissions of 2007!
Berrien completed and installed her site-specific installation at the NPS Blue Ridge Parkway Destination Center. Upon arrival, she discovered that the design specs for the pair of 15-ft bridges had been changed - to 13.5-ft bridges! Elizabeth saved the day by expertly trimming and re-weaving the arches to fit... to the relief and satisfaction of the project manager and site designer.
While already creating the Blue Ridge collection on a rush schedule, Elizabeth Berrien was contacted by BBDO, the world's 4th largest ad agency, and commisioned to design a trio of 2D group images - to be projected onto a 4-story wall in Los Angeles, as an ad campaign for BBC World News. The 2-D sculpture series is under consideration as a Clio contender.
Designers of upscale hotels and shopping centers in the US, Europe and Asia are inquiring about collections of site-specific wire sculptures for new developments.
Elizabeth Berrien is currently completing a variation of her 2D wire wall art design, "Healing the Earth", for site specific installation at an East Coast school building.
The artist is currently exhibiting at Woodland Grove Gallery and Mill Pond Gallery in Long Grove, IL through Nov/Dec.
She will be a guest panelist at LosCon 45 on Thanksgiving weekend - and is looking forward to renewing friendships within the realm of fantasy and science fiction.
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MARCH 30, 2007 - ANOTHER MAJOR COMMISSION!
Elizabeth Berrien has been awarded a commission to create wire sculptures for the National Parks Service. The $64,690.00 project, which includes a trio of Hawks in Flight and a pair of 15 x 9ft bridge arches, will take approximately 4 to 5 months for Berrien to complete and install.
As she prepares to begin the NPS project, Berrien is completing her current workload of private and public commissions, including a life-size Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin for a natural history museum. She is also fulfilling wire sculpture orders for Woodland Grove Gallery of Long Grove, IL and The Highlight Gallery in Mendocino, CA, and is reviewing inquiries from "green" architects regarding wire sculpture for public, private and corporate environnments.
These commitments indicate that by mid-summer, there may be a shortage of Berrien wire sculpture and an associated rise in prices. Clients who reserve a wire sculpture commission before June may still do so at current prices.
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Architects and designers working on "Green", environmentally responsible projects, cite wire sculpture as an art form with a surprising number of GREEN attributes...
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It's shocking... the term "wire sculpture" cannot be found in conventional or online dictionaries! To fulfill the need, Elizabeth Berrien wrote the current standard Definition of Wire Sculpture in 1995.
March 28 Postscript: We're delighted to see that Wikipedia has just listed wire sculpture! Our thanks to Wikipedia and its contributing editors...
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By popular demand, we're starting to add prices again - starting with the 2-Dimensional wire sculptures on the Wire Wall Art & Murals, which start at $200.00 per square foot.
We'll have prices and fresh images for the 3D wire sculptures in our Gallery pages, soon, too - check back often for updates!
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Dying to see the ultra-fine detail and complexity of Elizabeth berrien's amazing wire sculptures? Here's your chance - to look up close at the individual wire twists! We're starting with the 2-Dimensional wire sculptures on the Wire Wall Art & Murals, and will continue to add close-ups to as many oter pages and images as possible.
If there's an image you'd like to see up close right away. Let us know! We'll give it priority...
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Ahhhh...........think of the ease of a bird in the sky. The wind slipping through its feather while also supporting the weight of the body. Easy as pie, as they say!
Learn more about Healing with Wire Feathers
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What could be more beautiful and alive than our own Planet Earth? Watch Elizabeth Berrien translate our world and its continents into wire sculpture maps for murals and wire wall art, to lend energy and grandeur to any space.
Explore The World in Wire Maps
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FEBRUARY 2007
The theme is... MAGIC! Elizabeth Berrien's entry... a 25 yr retrospective set of magical fantasy creatures, created from 1982 to 2007! Elizabeth's participation in this international wire sculpture competition created quite a stir.
Tumnus the Faun and His Friends
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People order the most fascinating wireworks... like this bit of signage, commissioned for a professional barber. Learn more...
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Beverly L. Watkins interviewed Elizbeth Berrien as part of her research monograph... Fascinating new insights into Berrien's evolution as Godmother of Wire
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Art collectors let us know what they want... and it's MORE 2-D wire sculpture for their walls! Wire murals look as fantastic on garden walls as they do in corporate lobbies and public spaces.
Some clients order intricate, fine wire wall art small enough to frame - others want a bold statement for the mantel or entry way. This Hawk Head could be created as life-sized 2D wire wall sculpture, or enlarged to eight feet high... or three stories high! Learn more...
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Karen Anne C. Liquette interviews Elizabeth Berrien to encourage aspiring young wire sculptors in the Philippines...
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