Take a stroll through highlights of Eileen's mosaic and sculptural
works in her Mosaic Gallery...
 WAAAHOO!
Eileen’s latest commission is completed and installed. The mission: To recycle the cottonwood pieces into the
new Rainbow Trout Tree at Idlewild Park Pond in Reno.
Many thanks to Capstone
Partners, LLC developers of The Village at Idlewild, the Ward One
Neighborhood Advisory Board and a City of Reno Public Art Challenge
Grant for funding the project. Also many thanks for the in-kind support of many businesses who contributed
to the successful Trout Tree Recycled Art Project (listed alphabetically):
BRAGG Crane Service
Ceramic Tile Center
Custom Kreation
Jensen
Precast
McBride Machine Inc.
Ponderosa Wholesale
R.T. Donovan
Company, Inc.
Tessera Glass
Titan Construction Supply, Inc.
WitsEnd
Mosaic
Everyone was awesome to work with.
To view pictures of the work
in progress posted by the City of Reno go to:
http://www.cityofreno.com/Index.aspx?page=576&recordid=4073 To view City of Reno interview with artist Eileen Gay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8jgjcaGVrA&feature=player_embedded To view a time lapse video of the installation, go to:
http://vimeo.com/6844734
  CALL OF THE PANTHER - 14' x 42" x 18"
Concrete sculpture with stone and porcelain mosaic. Commissioned by the city of Reno
as part of their Public Art series of art for parks.
Mosaic Arts International 2008 Exhibition -
Bakehouse
Arts Complex in Miami, Florida
Awarded Juror's Choice Award by jurist Luciana Notturni
IN THE CHIPS - FATE, LUCK & MAGIC
Three stacks of concrete sculpture representing stacks of giant poker chips (each stack approx. 35" diameter) covered
in glazed porcelain mosaic. Commissioned by the City of Reno and funded as part of the Public Art component of the RETRAC
project, this sculptural seating element is located in the heart of downtown Reno in camera view of the arch.
ROSE WATERFALL – 96" x 60"
Mosaic is glazed porcelain tile on existing exterior stone wall surface. Public Art Project
- Commissioned by the city of Reno and the Parks and Recreation Department, located in Reno’s Idlewild Park at the entry
for the Reno Municipal Rose Garden.
VERDI MULEDEER - 28”
by 48”
Stone mosaic with oak framing, engraved sponsor marble and granite
surround.Verdi Community Library & Nature Center Donor Wall.
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