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Parking Garage
About the Artwork
Created to replace “Stairway to the Enchanted Castle” by Dorothy Gillespie that was damaged by Hurricane Charlie, this mobile-style sculpture can be viewed by cars driving into and out of the parking ramp. Hundreds of colorful flower-like clusters hang several from a metal frame, intended to beautify the parking ramp as well as help calm traffic.
About the Artist
Dorothy Gillespie
Dorothy Gillespie is one of the countries most prolific artists, playing with the relationships of color, form and space with painted aluminum as her primary medium. She attended Maryland Institute College of Art in 1941 and received an honorary B.F.A. in 1996. She also attended the Art Students League of New York and Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17 in New York. She has held the position of Distinguished Professor of Art at Radford University, and has participated on the Board of Trustees for the Maryland Institute and the Maitland Art Center in Maitland, Florida. She has served on many other arts boards and committees throughout her career, while exhibiting in over 100 solo shows in the United States, from California to Minnesota to New York, North Carolina, Texas and Florida as well as abroad in Peru and Germany. Among the locales where her work can be viewed are at the ponds at Disney World’s Epcot Center, the exterior of the Rockland Center for the Arts and the Rockefeller Center in New York. She splits her time between homes in Orlando and New York City.
Did you know?
In Winter Park's Hannibal Square, there are two large artworks that were partially created through much community participation.
Discover Art in Central Florida!
For those who have eyes to see, there are hundreds of works of art around them.
This web site provides some information on many of those works of art that can
be regularly viewed in Orange County by any member of the public without an
admission fee. They are outside in public view, or located in an interior area
that is normally open to the public.
Look around this web site and find something that interests you. Then go see it
in person. The information you find here will add to the pleasure of exploring
public art in Central Florida.
If, in your travels around Orange County, you come across some public art that
is not listed here, please let us know so we can add it. If you are aware of
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