Cliff Garten Studio

Cliff Garten Studio is a public-art and landscape-sculpture practice founded and directed by sculptor Cliff Garten. Based in Venice, California, the studio creates site-specific civic work that brings sculpture, landscape architecture and infrastructure engineering together in public settings.

Its projects address the artistic possibilities of utilitarian structures and shared environments, from bridges, rail stations and pedestrian plazas to hospital atria, campuses and commercial landscapes. The practice describes this approach as unlocking “the expressive potential of public infrastructure,” creating communal focal points that shape movement, interaction and a sense of place.

Capabilities

The studio guides commissions from early planning through installation, combining:

• Concept design, site analysis and civic stakeholder engagement
• Public-art master planning and architectural integration
• 3D and parametric spatial modelling
• Structural-engineering coordination and fabrication supervision
• Materials planning across stainless steel, bronze, stone, glass and other media
• Lighting design, programmed LED systems and construction administration

Cliff Garten Studio works across municipal and civic programmes, transit authorities, commercial developments, healthcare environments, higher-education campuses, parks and public open spaces. Its multidisciplinary process connects artistic intent with the technical requirements of complex built environments.

Selected work

The studio’s portfolio includes Harmonic Ascension at Las Vegas Civic Center; I AM A MAN Plaza in Memphis; Corous at Cone Health Heart and Vascular Center in Greensboro; Ribbons at 50 United Nations Plaza in San Francisco; Illuvium at Google’s Moffett Place campus; Luminous Crossings for Calgary’s C-Train stations; and Urban Circle at Minneapolis’s 38th Street Station.

Over more than three decades, the practice has completed more than fifty major public-art commissions across the United States and Canada, with work ranging from memorials and healing environments to illuminated infrastructure and landscape-based civic sculpture.