The Albany International Airport's Art & Culture Program presents large-scale sculptures in addition to commissioning site-specific installations. The Airport is an ideal venue for exhibiting three-dimensional works, particularly those that may be suspended within its vast vertical spaces. We have been fortunate to exhibit pieces by prominent twentieth century artists such as Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi, and George Rickey. Like the site-specific projects, the Art & Culture Program welcomes proposals from regional artists and issues stipends to artists whose work is selected by the Exhibition Committee. The work is exhibited for a minimum of two years.

For more information about the Art & Culture Program's sculpture installations, please call 518.242.2241 or email arts@albanyairport.com.

Current Installations
Stairwell to Third Floor Gallery
Soft Chandelier Ginger Ertz, 2007 Chenille stems, steel	GINGER ERTZ' Soft Chandelier adds elegance, humor and surprise to this two story stairwell. While an ornamental chandelier might traditionally be placed in such a location, there is something about the fuzzy surface created by the chenille stems that evokes a sense of playfulness. In addition to having a chandelier-like appearance it also brings to simple organisms like undersea creatures, a theme that is repeated often in Ertz' work.

Second Floor, Concourse B
Jeanne Flanagan Photographs  of site-specific installations and works on paper Installed 2008 - Present	JEANNE FLANAGAN's work spans very divergent processes and materials. Through drawing and painting within the privacy of a studio, she explores ideas in a fluid, relatively spontaneous manner. These works on paper are often the catalysts for carefully planned, laboriously crafted, large-scale outdoor public sculptures. Flanagan describes these images and structures as hybrids that are composed of a number of different ideas and relationships. Both the works on paper and the sculptures resemble topographical maps, and while the drawings are important to the development of the sculpture, many stand alone as territories unto themselves.
Lubber Dean Snyder, 1994, Red Cedar, Steel Rings	DEAN SNYDER's large and looming piece, Lubber, a sphere of laminated cedar veneer punctuated with hand-wrought iron rings, sits as a sentinel to the concourse. Lubber's title refers to a person that is out of sync with his environment, commonly known in the nautical expression, "land-lubber", a person not acclimated to seafaring.
Four Triangles Hanging George Rickey, 1974, Stainless Steel	Four Triangles Hanging was created by artist GEORGE RICKEY who was one of the world's foremost kinetic sculptors. His work consists of tenuously balanced geometric steel constructions which combine linear elements and geometric forms, moved by air currents and gravity. The artist's primary interest was in the fluctuating relationships of these forms in shaping the space around them, rather than in the shapes themselves.

Sharon Bates, Director
Art & Culture Program
Albany International Airport Gallery hours:
7:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. daily.
For additional information phone: 518.242.2241 or email arts@albanyairport.com