About This Piece

In 2008, Patrick Marold was commissioned to create an entry gate for the Gates Tennis Center by the City of Denver. While it clearly had to act as functional gate, he designed a work that uses the predominant angles of natural light to project a subtle grid of shadows on five panels of frosted glass. In the shadows there are particular points where the grid is in much sharper focus, as if the grid was bent by the impact of a tennis ball. Marold’s intention was to subtly exhibit some of great qualities of this sport, including rhythm and the inevitable collision of ball and net that interrupts that fundamental rhythm.