The Student Life: Sandeep Mukherjee wins art commission for permanent installation at SoFi Stadium

Pomona art professor Sandeep Mukherjee blends color and motion in permanent SoFi Stadium installation

By Kate Jones

Sandeep Mukherjee wins an art commission for the performance venue at the SoFi Stadium, Inglewood , California , the most expensive sport stadium to be built till date.

The piece is a multiple-part sculpture — at the moment, Mukherjee has created around 150 segments, he said, though not all of them will be used in the installation — made of aluminum molds of tree trunks, roots and branches painted in a series of vibrant colors. Mukherjee sourced the trees used to create the molds from a location not far from his studio in Claremont.

“There are parts of the pieces that look very organic … from natural events. And then there’s colors that look really man-made: synthetic, produced, industrial. So it’s a combination of both. Nature takes on different dimensions.”

Mukherjee wants the sculptural nature of his piece to encourage different kinds of visualization: “You see through your body, not just through your eyes,” he said.

-Excerpt from TSL article by Kate Jones.

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