Corporate Campus
Financial Services
From new acquisitions to commissioned artwork, we developed engaging art experiences that help to tell a cohesive story throughout a newly remodeled academic style campus.
Our client’s Charlotte campus is home to an expansive art program, which has been carefully curated to reflect the organization’s values and enhance the building’s modern design. The program features a diverse range of work, including new acquisitions from regionally-based artists, as well as signature pieces that celebrate North Carolina’s geographical features and highlight sustainability in the art-making process.
The client’s art program is a vital component of the organization’s commitment to creating a dynamic and engaging workplace for its employees, clients, and visitors. Through the program, the organization aims to create a stimulating and inspiring environment for all who visit, while supporting local artists and promoting sustainability in the arts.
Interior design: IA | Interior Architects. Photography: Lydia Bittner-Baird.
Open Collaboration
Low-Relief Sculpture + Site Specific Murals
Katrina Sánchez Standfield explores themes of connection, healing, and security through her distinctive approach to soft sculpture. In Looking for el Carnaval, she creates vibrant, three-dimensional forms by combining knit and woven textiles. She crafts each ‘knitted noodle,’ which is both knit and stuffed, to act as an exaggerated version of the traditional warp and weft. This process transforms color and texture into a dynamic exploration within the physical space, offering a vivid, tactile experience.
Thomas Campbell’s sculptural installations, Pines and Piedmont, offer a profound connection to North Carolina’s landscapes through distinct yet complementary approaches. “Pines” draws its inspiration from the serene experience of meandering through a pine tree forest, aiming to instill a sense of calm and introspection. As part of Campbell’s Broken Volumes Series, this piece leverages the aesthetics of industrial steel fabrication, utilizing bends or “brakes” to sculpt form, depth, and dimension, mirroring the forest’s natural architecture.
Piedmont adopts a more organic perspective, employing similar brake techniques to evoke North Carolina’s iconic rolling hills and valleys. The sculpture’s form undulates in a manner that suggests the gentle slopes of the region, while a carefully applied gradient of blue paint adds an illusion of depth, reminiscent of gazing towards the horizon. Together, these works by Campbell not only celebrate the beauty of natural landscapes but also showcase the versatility of steel in capturing the essence of the environment.
Owl adopts an alias to navigate the art world, maintaining anonymity to ensure their work stands independently of their personal identity. Their signature style emerges through abstract patterns and lines, repetitively laid down without prior sketching, using spray paint or markers. Owl captures the essence of spontaneous creation, akin to freestyle dancing, where the next move is unknown yet intuitively guided by practice.
Hodges Taylor has become a valued partner in supporting our company’s push for employee focused workspaces, adding a layer of depth and interest to our modernized spaces that only art can provide. Their extensive knowledge, network, and expertise combined with their collaborative selection process and flexibility to adapt to project scope and schedule changes has evolved our working relationship beyond the traditional client / vendor dynamic. They have become valued teammates and I look forward to working with them again on future endeavors.”
Senior Designer, Client Team
Social Gathering + Lounge Areas
Dimensional Wall Installations
Mt. Mitchell by Matthew Steele is a striking representation of the Blue Ridge Mountains, meticulously crafted from Baltic birch plywood. Drawing on topographical data from the NASA geographical database, Steele translates the Mt. Mitchell region’s contours into subtle undulations within his piece. These carefully constructed variations are inspired by a cross-section of the mountain’s terrain, bringing the natural beauty and complex geography of Western North Carolina into a tangible, sculptural form.
Eleanor Annand’s Collective, crafted from letterpress printed and die-cut cotton paper, highlights her exploration of the human condition through modular compositions. These pieces, embodying a balance of tension and equilibrium, are designed to reflect the constant state of flux in our lives. Annand’s approach is both analytical and intuitive, allowing her to construct and deconstruct forms in a meditative process that mirrors our ongoing adjustments and transformations.
Corridors
Site-Specific Murals + Series
Raishad Glover approaches art with a focus on diligence and simplicity, bridging innovative culture with traditional media. By employing foundational principles and design elements like rhythm, value, line, and color, Glover steers his creative development, crafting works that resonate with both modernity and tradition.
Ellie Richards’ Tufted Timekeeper series presents a collection of clocks, each uniquely crafted from machine-tufted wool. This innovative use of materials blends functionality with artistic exploration, reimagining the conventional clock through the warmth and texture of tufted fabric.
Martha Clippinger’s colorful dimensional murals, Hot Fun and Buoy, activate the corridors with vibrant energy and dynamic forms. Buoy utilizes a continuous horizontal line and circle to create a landscape where water meets sky. The shift in the placement of each circle, slightly higher or lower, creates movement across the series of panels, suggesting a setting sun or a bobbing buoy. In Hot Fun, the arrangement of sixteen panels relates to four four-petaled dogwood flowers. The triangles of the panels and their varied orientations are inspired by quilts, where color and repeated geometries create a sense of rhythm.
It’s a special opportunity to create artwork for a specific site. My interest in architecture leads me to create abstract works of specific scales and proportions that will harmonize with their surroundings. I also think about who will experience the work and how. Knowing these works would be in an office environment, I wanted to make them playful and exuberant and full of movement. It was wonderful to work with Hodges Taylor, who conveyed my proposal clearly to the client, and who provided me with the support to produce and install the three-dimensional murals. “
MARTHA CLIPPINGER, Artist
Commons + Secondary Spaces
2D + 3D Objects
Taking inspiration from both personal and institutional stories, Chieko Murasugi uses the language of abstraction to explore the opposing states of peace and conflict. She titles these collages Roshambo, an Americanized version of the Japanese game Rock, Paper, Scissors — an example of playful and peaceful conflict resolution. Among her materials are cutouts from artworks she’s made in the past, now fashioned into the shapes and curves of samurai artifacts. By reusing these materials, which contain marks such as burns and tears, Murasugi explores the material fragments of her past and uses them to both recognize violence and advocate for peace.
Niches
Site-Specific Commissions + Acquisitions
Additional Projects
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