Avenue of Lights 36-foot stainless figures

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

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Avenue of Light is a set of six stainless steel sculptures, each 36 feet high, in the median of Lancaster Avenue in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Artist Cliff Garten made them in 2009 for the Fort Worth Public Art Program.

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Approximate location · 32.749° N, 97.327° W

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Along half a mile of Lancaster Avenue in downtown Fort Worth, six tall stainless steel sculptures mark a street once shadowed by an elevated freeway. Artist Cliff Garten’s Avenue of Light, dated 2009, stands in the median from Lamar Street to Main/Commerce Street. His studio gives each of the six as 36 feet high, 8 feet wide and 4 feet deep.

The setting has its own story. Lancaster Avenue lay beneath an elevated section of Interstate 30 until the freeway was relocated in 2001, which allowed the city to reclaim the historic street and preserve several classical and Art Deco buildings. Garten took his cue from the Art Deco details of the nearby Texas & Pacific Terminal, interpreting them as plates used to build the sculptures. The Fort Worth Public Art Program says they are made of stacked, laser-cut stainless plates drawing on zigzag motifs on the facades of the terminal and warehouse buildings.

The studio describes the forms as twisting and stretching, at once opaque and transparent depending on where the viewer stands. In daylight the brushed stainless surfaces reflect and refract natural light; from dusk until dawn, the studio says, programmed energy-efficient LED coloured lights illuminate them. The city’s public art page instead says the towers are lit in different colours to celebrate annual events and special occasions. The project was funded by a Tax Increment Finance District and administered by the Fort Worth Public Art Program, with a Texas Department of Transportation grant used to redesign the medians with trees, native grasses and paving.

Downtown Fort Worth Inc. lists the work as Avenue of Lights; the artist and the city call it Avenue of Light. Walk or drive the half-mile to see all six.

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Six outdoor sculptures along a half-mile of Lancaster Avenue in downtown Fort Worth, seen from the street. The studio says they are lit from dusk until dawn; the city says the lights change colour for annual events and special occasions.

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In the median of Lancaster Avenue between Lamar Street and Main/Commerce Street, downtown Fort Worth, a public street. Downtown Fort Worth Inc. lists a nearby surface lot at Texas & Pacific, 221 West Lancaster Avenue.

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