Del Rio Trail

DATE: 2024 (in development)
LOCATION: Sacramento, CA
CLIENT: The City of Sacramento / Cal Trans
MEDIUM: Stainless Steel
SIZE: 20 ft x 4 ft x 40 ft

Currently in design development, Resistance. And Then… has been commissioned by the City of Sacramento for their Del Rio Trail project — with a trailhead at the Sacramento River and meandering over five-miles — reclaiming sixty‐two acres of an abandoned railroad corridor for public use as bike and pedestrian pathways.

Part of an ongoing series, Hope Is A Thing Of Feathers, the studio is bio-mimetically designing and engineering feathers as delicate structural metallurgical weavings, to achieve calligraphic gesture at an architectural scale – ultimately crafting a language of spatial poetics.

Among additional smaller works for the Del Rio site, the studio’s signature piece will be a single giant feather, uncannily balanced on a 30-foot tilted mast, drifting in the wind and light, impossibly translucent, shadows cast below.

SG Studio is one of five artists creating large-scale works for the Del Rio Trail project. Resistance. And Then… will be a new wayfinding landmark — defining the Sacramento River origin point of the new five-mile Del Rio Trail Park — and visible along the river levee, from Interstate 5 freeway, and for the surrounding residential community.

PROJECT CREDITS

Artist: Stephen Glassman

Project Director: Aaron Slavin

Studio Design Associates: Freesia Torres, Gavin Laughlin

Owner | Developer: Arts Commission of Sacramento/Caltrans

Structural Engineers: SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)

Fabrication: Milgo/Bufkin NYC