Living my real-life six degrees of separation from Dulzura, California, to Las Vegas, Nevada to Lincoln City, Oregon, Steve happened upon incredible humans and artists Wick Alexander and Robin Brailsford via friends Paula Jacoby Garret and Niki Price. I hope by listening you will gain as much as I did in interviewing them.
Robin Brailsford
Lead Artist, Inventor, Aesthetic Engineer, Silversmith
Brailsford Public Art
PO Box 426 1116 Marron Valley Road Dulzura, California 91917
619-468-9641 robinbrailsford@yahoo.com www.robinbrailsford.com
“AS A PUBLIC ARTIST, I SEE MY ROLE AS RECOGNIZING THE POTENTIAL IN PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS, AND THEN REALIZING THAT POTENTIAL.
Recently I have been examining the public art process itself, to make it more meaningful for me, the artist, and more inspired and interconnected for the citizens who are its owners. I energize the life and place within our contemporary culture, to create works that are evolutionary - linking concepts, materials, scale, cities, people and environment.”
Wick Alexander
Since 1980, San Diego native Wick Alexander has been producing distinctive paintings, sculptures and public artworks. Awards for his paintings have been presented by the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council and the Ford Foundation.
His paintings are included in many private collections and museum permanent collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, the California Center for the Arts in Escondido and the Banff Center of the Arts in Alberta, Canada