"Take-Off"

Most recently, the City has installed a new water feature at Park Village that boasts the latest public art piece as part of the new structure. The Southlake Arts Council were the visionaries for the new art piece, planning for a contemporary sculpture that portrays flight since the property is the former site of an airstrip. The Arts Council worked with an Arkansas-based artist, Hunter Brown, to create the piece titled, "Take-Off." The art piece is a modern stainless steel sculpture design, composed of twisting and turning forms that ascend upward, intersecting and jutting through space. Although the design is abstract, the movement of the forms exhibits an aeronautical feel. Each form twists and similarly tapers across the sky to flight maneuvering. The cantilevered balance, delicate joineries, and asymmetrical composition gives the piece a gravity-defying feel and pushes the aviation theme. The relationship and orientation of each form create drastically different compositions from different perspectives, making the piece transformative. The scale of the piece is large but not overpowering for the space. The piece extrudes into the sky, which pushes creates a dramatic effect by using the skyline as its canvas. Funding for the artwork came from a public investment agreement with the property owner that uses sales and property tax from the development. Read more about the new public art at Park Village.