Glendora Home: A Slice of Sunshine
(in progress 2025)
Michael Hillman
DESCRIPTION: multiple-component station art project in progress:
Hillman's tile-faced pillars or columns are referred to as "landmark" sculptures. Four of the pillars are mounted on the station platform, and the remaining two pairs are mounted at the nearby east and west street intersections.
The tile-faced pillars and the cuerda seca tile panels depict the flora of Glendora. The ceramic tile art panels for the column bases employ a cuerda seca technique and depict both floral images and geometric patterns.
Hillman's installation will be fully visible when the Glendora Station officially opens in May/June 2025. Of note is Hillman's nearby Historic Glendora Depots (2014), created with Citrus College students, at Glendora Avenue and W. Ada Avenue, one block away. (See also Hillman's Glendora Monument Wall (2007) and Pride of the Foothills (2014).
- 8 free-standing 18-foot high by 3-foot diameter oval-shaped sculpted concrete pillars, wrapped with glass tesserae tile murals
- 14 18-inch by 12-inch hand-glazed cuerda seca ceramic tile panels, mounted onto canopy column bases
Hillman's tile-faced pillars or columns are referred to as "landmark" sculptures. Four of the pillars are mounted on the station platform, and the remaining two pairs are mounted at the nearby east and west street intersections.
The tile-faced pillars and the cuerda seca tile panels depict the flora of Glendora. The ceramic tile art panels for the column bases employ a cuerda seca technique and depict both floral images and geometric patterns.
Hillman's installation will be fully visible when the Glendora Station officially opens in May/June 2025. Of note is Hillman's nearby Historic Glendora Depots (2014), created with Citrus College students, at Glendora Avenue and W. Ada Avenue, one block away. (See also Hillman's Glendora Monument Wall (2007) and Pride of the Foothills (2014).
LOCATION: station platform and two nearby street corners, GLENDORA STATION, 410 S. Vermont Avenue, Glendora, California, USA
STATION ARTWORKS ON THE PLATFORM ARE INSTALLED AND UNDER PROTECTIVE WRAP UNTIL STATION OPENING IN MAY/JUNE 2025:
STATION ARTIST MICHAEL HILLMA OVERSEES INSTALLATION OF "LANDMARK" PILLARS:
STATION ARTIST MICHAEL HILLMAN OVERSEES INSTALLATION OF ART PANELS ONTO CANOPY COLUMN BASES:
CITRUS-THEMED PATTERNS, DESIGNED BY ALIGNMENT ARTIST CHRISTIE BENISTON, ARE INCORPORATED THROUGHOUT THE FOUR-STATION PROJECT, IN GLASS CANOPY PANELS, ON CONCRETE BARRIER WALLS, AND ON THE 19 NEW AND RENOVATED BRIDGES.
BELOW, CREWS INSPECT ONE OF THE FIRST BARRIER WALLS EMBELLISHED WITH THE CUSTOM "CITRUS" DESIGNS AT THE GLENDORA STATION.
