Injection

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David Middlebrook’s Injection is a majestic bronze and stone sculpture that was installed at the pond’s edge near the Dublin Community Recreation Center in Coffman Park as part of the original “Titration” on-loan exhibition series in 2007.

Injection consists of three unique sections, a steel base, followed with basalt, and topped with a bronze cone-shaped piece that completes the sculpture. The large fingerprint that covers the top of the cone is that of the artist.

Dublin Arts Council chose the exhibition title “Titration” to reflect the addition of a new concentration of sculpture into the community. It was curated as part of “Ripple Effect: Artistic Impact of the Scioto River,” a Dublin Arts Council project designed to offer unique opportunities for visual, performing and interpretive art projects associated with investigation of the Scioto River.

Titration is a common laboratory method used to add a measured quantity of a reagent, called a titrant, into an unknown reagent, called a reactant, to produce a chemical reaction. The exhibition series reflects the fluid properties of its name in the figurative sense: our changing community, our growing collection of public art, and Dublin’s sense of cultural identity. The exhibition dovetailed with the introduction of Riverboxes, another public art initiative that encourages historical and artistic exploration and response to the river in our midst.

For more information about Injection, visit dublinarts.org and click on the Art in Public Places tab.

Materials

Steel
Basalt
Bronze

Dates

Purchased: 2007
Installed: 2007

Dimensions

Height: 6'

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Location

Coffman Park, 5200 Emerald Parkway, Dublin, Ohio, 43017
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Type

Public Art

Artist

David Middlebrook

David Middlebrook is a master of materials, beginning as a ceramic artist and evolving to a broad range of stone, marble and bronze works weighing from 50 lbs. to 50 tons. He has established himself as a specialist in large-scale, site-specific work. Middlebrook is an Associate Director of Fine Arts at San Jose State University in California’s Silicon Valley and maintains a studio in Los Gatos, California. His visiting artist positions have taken him to the northern tip of Australia and to South Africa. He credits these experiences with the primitive aesthetic influence in his work. Middlebrook sustains a professional relationship with a studio in Pietrasanta, Italy, where he finds that the availability of virtually every stone in the world, combined with a thousand years of tradition and the combined experience of a variety of artists, provide an invaluable asset.