In recent years, Matthew Mazzotta, a visual artist who completed a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard GSD in 2018, has produced site-specific installations that have caught the art world’s attention, one of them being a giant pink flamingo inside Tampa’s central airport terminal. Now, Mazzotta has completed what he calls his “quietest artwork” to date in Downey, California, entitled Wrapped in Sunbeams.
With collaborators Sujin Lim, Stephanie Yeung, Daniel Shieh, and Yalun Li, Wrapped in Sunbeams is a shade structure that looks like a barn. Its made of dichroic glass with an orange fruit weathervane on top, a nice Dadaist touch. The dichroic glass, Mazzotta said, creates
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