Norie Sato
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Norie Sato (born July 19, 1949) is an artist living in Seattle, Washington. She works in the field of public art using sculpture and various media–including glass, terrazzo, plastic film, stone, and metal–and often incorporating lighting effects, landscaping, mosaics, prints, and video. She frequently collaborates with architects, city planners, and other artists and specializes in integrating artwork and site specific design.[1][2]
Sato was born in Sendai, Japan and moved to the United States with her family when she was 4. After spending some years in Michigan she graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking in 1971. She moved to Seattle in 1972 and received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking and Video from the University of Washington in 1974.[3] Since that time she has lived and worked in Seattle and has been involved with public art.
Work
Sato has managed, designed, and contributed artwork to urban infrastructure projects, parks, universities, aquatic centers, galleries, museums, transportation systems, airports, libraries, and other civic structures. She has worked extensively in light-rail public-art projects in Phoenix, Portland, Tempe, Salt Lake City,[2] and particularly her native Seattle where she was hired by Sound Transit for its Link Light Rail project in 1998 as a system artist collaborating with fellow artists Dan Corson, Sheila Klein, and Roger Shimomura.[4]
- Selected works
- Seattle Light Rail system at Columbia City station[4]
- The Reflection Room at San Diego Airport[5]
- Romare Bearden Park in Charlotte, NC[6]
- San Francisco International Airport[7]
- Port of Portland headquarters in Oregon[8]
- Palmer Human Development and Family Studies Building at Iowa State University[3]
- Spirit of Inquiry sculpture at University Drive and Rural Road Metro Station - Tempe AZ[9]
- Artwork for Chisholm Trail Parkway in Fort Worth[10]
- Artwork for Waterfront Seattle's Union Street East-West Connector (in progress)[2]
