Cross Currents

Adam Kuby, 2025

Look out of the window to view this large-scale project. The artwork is a single intervention––casting lines into concrete to create a palette of grids, pulses, and interweaving threads that animate the roadway walls and garage. Kuby collaborated with engineers to transform ubiquitous infrastructure into visually appealing forms. For the walls, 20 different patterns are arranged into large-scale, designs across 57,000 sf of wall space. The parking garage has a similar vocabulary of grids, lines, and pulses, evoking energy streams, technology, and geography. The artwork work accompanies people as they make their way through the airport campus on their unique travel journeys.

The patterns are inspired by topography, geology and rivers. Innovation, ecology, and biology are represented in the inventive way the panels interlock and connect, and how the curvilinear design elements pulse and flow and intertwine.
 

Material: Cast Concrete
Location: Roadways and Terminal Garage, Outdoors
Type: Mural

Pittsburgh’s transformed airport is designed to connect with the local and regional community. The Art in the Airport program features 15 artists in 30 campus locations that help to shape a sense of the city.

Photo courtesy of Adam Kuby

About the Artist

Based in Portland, Oregon, Adam Kuby creates landscape-based, environmentally responsive public art commissions and installations nationally and internationally. His experience in landscape architecture, urban forestry, and zoo design informs his art and understanding of public space. His projects are collaborations with the built and natural world that foster a sense of connectedness in our increasingly fractured environment. He explores how human and non-human ecologies can come into closer dialogue.

Photo courtesy of Adam Kuby