Artist: Catie Newell
Secret Sky (2019)
Reworking the iconic structure of the existing barn, Secret Sky allows the sky to enter and permeate the building. By day, the visitor sees the patterning and intricacy of the barn walls, juxtaposed with a massive cut that lets the daylight pour through. At night, the work glows from within, acting as a large-scale lantern in the landscape and casting long shadows across its surroundings, giving light and dark back to the sky.
Bio: Catie Newell is the founding principal of the architecture and research practice *Alibi Studio. Her creative practice has been widely recognized for reworking existing spaces using material aggregations and the effects of light and darkness. Newell’s work explores design construction and materiality in relationship to location, geography, and cultural contingencies. She is a Lucas Fellow, a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and a Kresge Arts Fellow.
Location
5201 N Pinnebog Rd, Kinde, MI 48445
Barn donated by Michael Schoenhals.
This installation is on private property. Please stay away from, and off of, the structures. Property owners are not responsible for personal injury.
Media & Links
Detroit Free Press: “In Michigan's Thumb, Detroiters turn decades-old barns into art”
Country Lines Magazine: “Reclaimed”
Thumbwind: “Michigan Barn Art In The Upper Thumb”
