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Marlo Bartels
Grand Hope Park Project
1994

Project Area: CBD/South Park
Project: Del Prado Apartments (Renaissance Tower)
Project Location: 501 W. Olympic Boulevard
Project Type: Developer

Description:

Sitting in the courtyard of the Del Prado apartments are Marlo Bartels’ pair of monumental pyramid-shaped air vents. Bartels’ project includes wall panels and a unique black tiled column that stands in a public corridor that divides the Del Prado Apartments. A merry montage of colorful abstract mosaic designs are tiled on each side of the pyramid. The wall panels of the black tiled column bear a similar montage mosaic scheme as the pyramids. Images on the more sober looking black tiled column include objects associated with Los Angeles such as palm trees, movie reels, fish, guns, and cars.

For other projects, please see:
Image of Pyramids

Image of Column

Artist Profile

Marlo Bartels has been producing and installing permanent indoor and outdoor ceramic sculptures, murals, and furniture since 1977.   Primarily working in ceramic tile, Bartel shapes, forms, and glazes the clay elements by hand and uses a vibrant color palette.  With the grant support from the National Endowment for the Arts, he has developed new techniques for fabricating furniture and sculptures, using tile facings on ferro-cement with polystyrene substrates.  His work can be found in public collections throughout southern California.  Bartels received his MA from the University of California, Fullerton.