Project Overview
Family Trees | University Place
The City of Memphis Percent-for-Art Program facilitated the development of this piece created for the newly constructed housing complex at University Place. Tim Upham's Family Trees represents the residents' desire to honor the connections that many longstanding community members feel for their neighborhood. Achieving an elegant symmetry in form and providing a dynamic dose of color to the landscape overall, this project has quickly become a source of neighborhood pride. Upham worked with local artist Yvonne Bobo to install the final pieces for what is now a landmark of the area.
About the Artist
Tim Upham
“If you are lucky enough to hear Tim talk about his art, you leave the presentation energized and smiling with a brighter, slightly altered way of looking at things.”
“I was making dioramas by the age of five, but it’s funny... 50 years later I am still making dioramas, but instead of colored paper, rounded scissors and white paste that you could eat, now it’s backhoes, tractor-trailers, and eighty-ton cranes. The best part is... it’s still a whole lot of fun to create the magic!”
Tim Upham lives in Fort Collins, CO, and works in collaboration with his brother Rick. Together they create unique, site-specific public art for locations around the world.
