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Julian Opie: Animals, Buildings, Cars, and People

Julian Opie cars New York

Beyer Projects worked with Julian Opie on his 2004 Public Art Fund installation in lower Manhattan's City Hall Park. On the occasion of the exhibition, we produced four full-scale car sculptures and a smaller series, entitled Garage?
 

"Animals, Buildings, Cars, and People is Julian Opie’s first U.S. sculpture survey, featuring fourteen works from nine different series made between 1997 and the present. Succinct, colorful, and seductive, Opie’s iconic imagery portrays the familiar physical world, from fashion models to farm animals, from skyscrapers to village churches. His work has been seen all over the world, in museums, galleries, corporate atriums, shops, airports, and even in a parking garage and a hospital cafeteria. He has rarely shown his sculptures in the United States, though his singular graphic sensibility, as seen on his album cover design for The Best of Blur, is familiar to many..."  (Source: Public Art Fund)