Current Work
- Aesthetic Bridge Design and Park Gateway |Client: The City of Ft Worth, Texas
- Roslyn Building Murals | Client: City of Denver, CO
- Boulder Public Library Tile Murals | Funded through Grants
- 30th Street Underpass | Client: City of Boulder, CO
Completed Work
Remembrance | Crime Victims’ Memorial
Client: City of El Paso, Texas and the Crime Victims’ Rights Council
Medium: Steel, Concrete, granite
Size: 13′ x 30′ x 15′
Date: 2009
Design Team: Ken Berntein Art Studio, Inc., the City of El Paso, TX, and the Crime Victims’ Rights Council
Description: This memorial situated in a park adjacent to the Lower Branch Library has two walls with the name of over 1000 people etched into four inset black granite discs. A cantilevered roof made of steel and perforated metal spans between the two irregular shaped walls.
Passage | Cor-ten Steel Gateways
Client: Colorado State University Location: CSU – Pueblo
Medium: Cor-ten Steel
Size: (5) 12.5’ x 18.5’ gates
Date: 2008
Design Team: Ken Berntein Art Studio, Inc. and Colorado Council on the Arts
Description: Five cor-ten steel gateways spaced along and across a 200’ long sidewalk guide pedestrians from the Student Rec Center to the HPER Building on the CSU campus in Pueblo, CO.
Colorful Colorado | Painted Mural
Client: El Paso County, CO Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Medium: Canvas, acrylic paint
Size: 14’ x 71’
Date: 2006
Design Team: El Paso County Justice Center Art Committee and Ken Bernstein Art Studio, Inc.
Description: Pictorial history of Colorado represented on the clothing of five children of different
cultures with a backdrop of the Rocky Mountains.
Vortex Street | Integrated Art and Design
Client: City of Boulder Location: Boulder, CO
Medium: Tile, Concrete, Steel , mosaics, paint
Size: Two Bus Stop Plaza areas
Date: 2006
Design Team: The City Transportation Department, Carter-Burgess Landscape Architects, and
Ken Bernstein Art Studio, Inc.
Description: Aesthetic design and art treatments for bus plaza’s utilzing mosaics, steel sculpture, custom tile, railings, sidewalk impressions, and poetry.
Award: Federal Highways Administration’s, Exemplary Human Environment Initiative 2007
Strata Variations
Client: City of Boulder Location: Boulder, CO
Medium: Concrete, Stone, and Colored Staining
Size: Two Terraces (500’ x 10’ each)
Date: 2005
Design Team: Ken Bernstein Art Studio Inc.,Airworks, Inc. City of Boulder Transportation Department
Description: Two terraced walls with stone facing, landscaping and plantings designed by the artists.
Award: Federal Highways Administration’s, Exemplary Human Environment Initiative 2007
Diversity Supports the World | Tile and Painted Murals
Client: Boulder Public Library Location: Boulder, CO
Medium: Ceramic Tile & Painted Concrete
Size: Tile Murals = 20 columns (42’sqft each)
Date: 2004
Design Team: Elementary, middle, high school, college students, and art teachers.
This project funded in part by: Boulder Arts Commission, Boulder Library Foundation, The Science and Cultural Facilities District, CCA, and Boulder Youth Opportunities Services
Description: Sixteen rectangular columns , which support the library bridge, have tile murals depicting an aspect of cultural and /or biodiversity.
Untitled | 18 Painted and 16 Tile Murals
Client: Westminster City Center Marketplace Location: Westminster, CO
Medium: Acrylic on stucco/ ceramic tile
Size: 18 painted murals (7.5’x12’ ea.), 16 tile mosaics (7.5’x10’ ea.)
Date: 1997
Design Team: The Developer, the Architect, and Ken Bernstein Art Studio, Inc.
Description: Sixteen exterior tile niches, ten are fountains, plus eighteen painted mural niches create
backdrops for seating areas and visual surprises while walking the perimeter of the Tuscan inspired
architecture of this shopping center.
Awards:
• Federal Highways Administration, Exemplary Human Environment Initiative Award 2007:
28th St Central Corridor Intermodal Improvements: Including Vortex Street and Strata Variations
• Colorful Colorado Mural awarded the Colorado Springs Gazette’s “Best of the Springs” 2008
Grants:
• Boulder Arts Commission 1986, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010
• Boulder Arts Commission Education Grant 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008
• Boulder Library Foundation 1999, 2001
• Colorado Council on the Arts 1995 & 1997 with Jack Collom, 2001, 2009
• Arts and Humanities Assembly of Boulder, Tessar Award 2001 with Jack Collom and Art Lande
• Science and Cultural Facilities District 1998, 2001, 2003, 2009
• Youth Opportunities Services of Boulder 2001
Education:
• Bachelor of Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1975
• Naropa University, 1985-86 (music study)
• Boulder Academy of Fine Art, 1998-99 (study of human anatomy)
Teaching:
• Artist in Residence, Hagen Elementary, Sterling CO 2005
• Visiting Artist, Superior Elementary, Superior, CO 2003 – 2007
• Life Drawing Classes and Anatomy for Artists Classes 2000 to present
Design Consultant:
• Member of the Artist Design Resource Team for the Art in Public Places Program, Loveland, CO
• Member of the Artist Design Resource Team for the Art in Public Places Program, Ft Collins, CO ‘01-03
Finalist for Public Art Commissions:
• Fountain design for Seibert Circle, Vail, CO 2005
• Artist for Downtown Redevelopment Design Team, Cary, NC 2006
• Artist for River Greenway Development Design Team, Lowell, MA 2007
• Artist for Metro Police Station Art Installation, Kansas city, MO 2008
• Artist for Graves Bridge Public Art Project, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2008
• Artist for the Stapleton Community Gardens Public Art Project, Denver, CO 2008
• Artist for the Valmont Park Public Art Project, Boulder, CO 2008