Park & Rides Art

Cornelius Park & Ride

Ivan Toth Depeña, Surface

2017
Artist Ivan Toth Depeña collaborated with the Project Architect, Redline Design Group, on the award-winning driver’s comfort station at the Cornelius Park & Ride. They employed a modern building shape that incorporates a cantilevered awning with colorful art glass to provide shelter for bus riders. Surface is Depeña’s art integrated into the awning, inspired by Lake Norman. Depeña used underwater topographic data from the nearby lake to recreate the abstracted experience of looking up through the surface of the lake. The artist builds on this emotional experience through use of cascading light and refracting color on the structure and below. Light and color dynamically respond to the site and the tilted canopy by changing throughout the year with the movement of the sun. Blues and greens echo the colors of the lake while shades of orange in the design connect back to the Carolina clay beneath the surface. 

Albemarle Park & Ride

Marcelo Novo, Travelin’ Light

2012
Over 88,000 glass tiles in 112 vibrant colors make up Marcelo Novo’s mosaic mural at the Albemarle Park and Ride. The 18’ wide and six feet high mural integrated into the exterior of the driver’s comfort station is clearly visible from approaching buses and passing cars as well as pedestrians. From a distance the overall image reads like one of the artist’s bold surrealist paintings and you can see residential landscape and a modern city bus within the body of the horse.

Huntersville-Northcross Park & Ride

Kit Kube, Constructive Interference

2006
Kit Kube recycles industrial artifacts harvested from local scrap yards. He used two, six-foot stainless steel sieves and converted the 24” diameter cylinder into a mobile and the 36” diameter cylinder into a stabile. Architects with Neighboring Concepts designed a contemporary facility to integrate the artist’s work that includes blank surfaces to receive and display patterns created by the artificial and natural light passing through the sculptures. Light fixtures incorporated by the artist transform the mobile and stabile into lanterns at night. The work demonstrates a seamless combination of art and architecture.

Mallard Creek Park & Ride

Rudy Rudisill, Untitled

2006
Rudy Rudisill has over twenty years of experience creating sheet metal sculptures inspired by historic Carolina structures. Working in collaboration with Neighboring Concepts, the team looked to the old Mallard Creek community schoolhouse as design inspiration for the driver’s comfort station and bus shelters at the Mallard Creek Park and Ride. Visitors familiar with the schoolhouse will recognize the results: the zinc gray roof with exposed beams, narrow columns supported by short red brick bases, two brick chimneys, and the rectangular shape of the structures. In the artist’s words, “As the rural landscape gives way to development, it is important to retain visual references to our past.”

Matthews Independence Pointe Park & Ride

Kathy Triplett, Matthews in Motion

2005
Two sets of sculptural ceramic tiles enliven the brick walls of the passenger comfort station. The artwork’s transportation-related images reflect themes drawn by the artist from the history of the Town of Matthews. Twenty-four 12” x 14” hand-made ceramic tiles form the arch of the comfort station. A series of eight 7 5/8” square, hand-built matte-glazed tiles are set into the brick under the arch in the entry alcove. 

Huntersville-Gateway Park & Ride

Hoss Haley, Motion

2004
Hand-forged steel strips bent by the artist create a spindle or wheel-like form around an axle. The 5 ½’ sculpture is placed on end at the corner of the curb in front of the driver’s comfort station in the parking lot. The Cor-ten steel responds to the elements resulting in a rusted covering over time.