Verdant, 2021
Painted aluminum
17 ft x 260 ft x 20 ft
Commissioned by Sound Transit for the city of Redmond, WA, this bridge connects a technology campus and bike trail to the Overlake Village light rail station. Redmond’s natural areas are hand-painted in the palette of green phosphorescent monitors with marks evoking low-res graphics of the early computer age. Three miles of a custom aluminum profile were extruded to create the 1026 vertical louvers designed to conceal the image from highway drivers beneath the bridge and create safe sight lines for pedestrians. Over 156,000 hand-painted marks comprise the imagery.
Core Beliefs and Core Values, 2021
Cashmere, Cotton, Silk, Wool, Acrylic
13 ft x 17 ft and 13 ft x 19 ft
Private commission with Skanska USA for the lobby of a new office tower in Seattle, WA, 2021. Partnering with Hilti, a concrete-scanning device for detecting the rebar in the wall on which they are mounted provided the source imagery for these tapestries that were woven at a mill in Flanders Belgium.
Photography by Mark Woods.
Subterranium, 2016
Aluminum, Polycarbonate
44 ft x 109 ft x 34 ft
At the heart of this station’s experience, the escalators and glass elevator pass through a 55-foot-high central chamber, one of the highest interior volumes in Seattle. In collaboration with LMN Architects, Berk created an integrated architectural experience for this artwork that expresses the geological layers of soil surrounding the station walls. Backlit, perforated metal panels clad the chamber walls, forming patterns of light that express the geological layers of earth, and suffuse the space with ambient light.
Photography by Mark Woods.
Claim Stakes, 2019
Stained redwood and polyester rope
4 ft x 284 ft x 32 ft
A grid of removable wooden posts creates this queuing system for the water taxi terminal building and highlights the significance of the hundreds of thousands of pilings driven into the waters surrounding Seattle for a variety of uses, but primarily to create new land. The redwood stanchions are stained in a gradient of colors to reference tidal marks and are connected by blue marine rope with enough sag to mimic the gentle waves of Puget Sound.
Threshold, 2009
Salvaged timbers, epoxy, urethane, and cork
18 ft x 24 ft x 44 ft
The timbers used to create Threshold were salvaged from a one-story building that previously stood on the site of this project. The floor tiles are slices from three of these beams, laid in sequence and book-matched to make the resulting pattern.
Beneath the Bridge Above, 2013
Inkjet print on reflective film and sign substrate
Dimensions Variable
These images depicts two of the 102 configurations that King County DOT can fabricate for bridges with spans up to 106' using the Bridge Design Manual that I created during two years of residency. The artwork renders a small bridge visible and animates the experience of traveling over it. When approaching the bridge, the images on individual blades align to create a photographic image. All photography was captured in and around the creek habitats that are potential candidates for new bridge structures.
Cloud Bank, 2009
Acrylic, PVC coated stainless steel cables, aluminum
13 ft x 20 ft x 16 ft
Cloud Bank is a suspended sculpture located in the main lobby of Shoreline City Hall and includes fourteen independent shapes that coalesce into one intricate form, serving as a visual metaphor for the City’s creation and the independent and collaborative nature of its original neighborhoods.
