Untitled: southeast view

Replica of an institutional, steel, drinking fountain that one finds in offices and schools. Normally located up against a wall, Asher includes a lip on one edge of the basin even though his drinking fountain is free standing. Asher's work pulls in the already existing elements of the site, bringing symmetry to a previously asymmetric layout.

• 1991

• Stuart Collection (San Diego, Calif.)

• Cohen, Becky (American photographer, contemporary)

• Asher, Michael (American conceptual artist, born 1943)

• Beebe, Mary Livingstone (American, born 1940)

Matthews Quad, University of California, San Diego; La Jolla, California, United States

granite (rock); water

Located on the grassy median in Mathews Quad, Asher's fountain is juxtaposed with a large American flag and a granite landmark commemorating the former Camp Matthews, a military training facility from 1917 to 1964, which occupied the land on which the University of California, San Diego now stands.

• Drinking fountains
• Installations
• Landscape architecture
• Outdoor sculpture
• Political art
• Public art
• Replicas
• Sculpture
• Site-specific works

• University of California, San Diego--History

• American
• Banality (Philosophy)
• Campuses
• Contemporary
• Drinking fountains
• Lawns (landscaped grass)
• Monuments
• Paths
• Quadrangles (open spaces)
• Symmetry
• Trees

Point: 32.878985, -117.236252

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Architecture and City Planning

Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design

Garden and Landscape

Performing Arts (including Performance Art)

Science, Technology and Industry

Sculpture and Installations

• Cohen, Becky (American photographer, contemporary)

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2021-10-08