Thanks to Lynn Trimble for writing about the new cycle of IN FLUX artworks around the city, including Roommates by Nick Rascona here in Chandler!
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It’s been more than three decades since artist Joan Waters moved to Phoenix, where she found landscapes and light that infused her large-scale abstract paintings with fresh perspective. But it was a battle with breast cancer that gave her time to reflect on her art practice, and a community college art class that equipped her with the skills to begin working with metals.
Today, Waters is one of several artists whose work is featured in a public art project that spans several metro Phoenix communities, including the city of Peoria, where her steel sculpture titled Totem: The Plant Princess sits outside the entrance to the Sunrise Mountain Library. It’s part of IN FLUX Cycle 9, the latest iteration of the project first launched in 2010.
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