The Spring District, Bellevue, WA

Two curious crows have discovered a pair of cell phones lying on the sidewalk. Pecking at the keyboards, the clever corvids exchange cryptic love notes - by happenstance, or with full intent?

“XOXO”

“XOXO2”

Powder-coated aluminum, LED lights

Standing crow is approximately 5’ tall.

Commissioned for The Spring District by Wright Runstad and Company

Fire Station #3, Sugar Land, TX

The sculpture's central figure with a bold, red number three on a gold ground represents Fire Station 3 at the heart of the community signified by twelve stylized houses arrayed out from the center. The arrangement resembles a clock face and the title, Around the Clock, suggests that the Fire Department is on-call and at the ready 24 hours a day.

The twelve houses are supported on a series of silver ladders and gold fire poles setting up a circular rhythm – up the ladder, down the pole, up the ladder, down the pole, as one's eye travels around the sculpture. Within that pattern, a careful observer may perceive the shape of a Maltese Cross; four lobes bordered by the gold poles with a ladder at the center of each. The Maltese Cross is an emblem, an insignia, recognized as the fire service's universal symbol of protection.

The color scheme is based on that of the Sugar Land Fire Department: red, white, black and gold with a subtle additional color palette featured in the doors of the houses: the team colors of the city's Triple-A baseball team; the Space Cowboys.

Powder-coated aluminum

10'-4” Diameter X 17”

City of Sugar Land and the Sugar Land Fire Department.

Robert Lince Kindergarten, Selah, WA

A series of nine fabricated aluminum boxes are stacked to form a totemic sculpture marking the entrance to the school. Fruit crates signify the bountiful harvest grown and processed in the Yakima Valley. Names of various fruits and different colors are presented in both Spanish and English reflecting the dual language mission of Lince Kindergarten.

Powder-coated and painted aluminum, stainless steel, rubber mulch.

9'-5” x 6' x 6'

Washington State Arts Commission in partnership with Selah School District

Les Gove Park, Auburn, WA

Crow With Fries celebrates the park's many resident crows and recalls the Big Daddy's Drive-In restaurant that once stood at this location. A remnant of the drive-in's canopy still stands nearby recalling the site's recent history. The colossal, stylized corvid stands twelve feet tall and serves as an iconic and humorous gateway to this beloved city park.

An internal LED fixture illuminates the eyes and in-ground blue LED up-lights illuminate the exterior after dark.

Powder-coated aluminum, LED lights

Crow: 12'-2”h x 21'-2”l x 7'-5”w

Fries: 2'-5”h x 7'-1”l x 5'-6”w

City of Auburn Arts Commission

Click on the links below to learn more about Crow With Fries.

Video produced by the City of Auburn : Crow With Fries by Peter Reiquam.

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ARTbeat Northwest radio interview with Pat Pauley.

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That’s So Auburn - Podcast

Artist Jill Drllevich is interviewed in the first half and I in the second. Listen to Jill's interview too, she's great. My interview begins at 0:25:48

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Conway School, Conway, WA

Bumper Crop celebrates the bounty of the Skagit Valley and the family garden.

The random arrangement of the installation's components suggests that a grumpy giant may have just entered the scene and upended a bumper crop of magic beans in the school's central courtyard. Could this be the prequel to the story of Jack and the Beanstalk?

Washington State Arts Commission in partnership with the Conway School District

Fire Station #4, Roswell, GA

Seven powder-coated stainless steel buckets, graduated in size, are arranged in an arc describing the motion of passing a bucket of water, hand to hand, neighbor to neighbor, and throwing it onto a raging fire. Bucket Brigade is a simple idea, but one that is meant to honor the people who work together as a team, risking their own lives to save the lives and property of others.

Each bucket contains a low-voltage LED fixture and a blue acrylic lens representing the surface of the water inside. The largest and smallest buckets feature thermo-formed plastic “water”.

The City of Roswell in partnership with the Roswell Arts Fund and the Roswell Fire Department

Fire Station #4 was designed by Pieper, O'Brien & Herr Architects, Alpharetta, GA

Click on the link below to see a video of the artist talking about the project.

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Seattle, WA

​Inspired by Seattle Police Detective, Denise “Cookie” Bouldin and the chess clubs she has established throughout the Rainier Beach community. At night, royal purple light spills out through the sculptures' perforated stainless steel skin. The LED up-lights are powered by a solar panel located nearby.

​​Seattle Office of Arts and Culture and Seattle Department of Transportation

Click on the link below to learn more about Detective Cookie and the inspiration for the sculpture.

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Pierce County Skills Center, Puyallup, WA

Hit or Miss represents the most basic of tools and by extension all of the specialized tools used in the various programs taught at the Skills Center.

Nail benches provide an interactive element and suggest that failure is an integral part of learning any new skill.

Hammer: 15’ tall

Powder-coated aluminum, stainless steel.

Washington State Arts Commission and the Bethel School District

Capital School Park, Juneau, AK

Memorial to Japanese and Japanese Americans from Juneau who were interned during World War II.
Inspired by the story of Juneau High School Class Valedictorian, John Tanaka and his family who were imprisoned prior to his 1942 graduation ceremony. In his place, his classmates placed an empty chair to represent him and the loss they felt at the forced removal of their friends and neighbors. The bronze chair, modeled after a folding wooden chair of the period, is approximately one and a half times life size.
The Empty Chair was recognized in 2014 by the Americans for the Arts – Public Art Network - Year-in-Review as one of the year’s outstanding public art projects nationwide.

The Empty Chair Committee and ​the City and Borough of Juneau

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Fire Station #9, Seattle, WA

Inspired by the iconic Eveready Battery logo depicting a stylized black cat with a lightning-bolt tail jumping through the number 9, Nine Lives expands this graphic image into a giant three-dimensional cat that appears to be stepping off of the firehouse roof. Nine Lives was recognized in 2013 by the Americans for the Arts - Public Art Network as one of the year’s outstanding public art projects nationwide.

Powdercoated aluminum, glass, LED light

Seattle Office of Arts and Culture and the Seattle Fire Department

Fire Station #9 was designed by Mithun Partners, Seattle, WA

Fire Station # 2, Albuquerque, NM

A rocket ship in the guise of an Albuquerque fire engine, Fire Rocket serves as a metaphor for the rapid response capabilities of a modern fire fighting force and makes reference to New Mexico’s long history of rocketry.

Painted and powder-coated aluminum, solar panel, animated LED lights.

Albuquerque Public Art Program and the Albuquerque Fire Department

Fire Station #2 was designed by RMKM Architecture, Albuquerque, NM

Zhangjiakou, China

Reiquam was was one of thirty-five artists invited to participate in an International Sculpture Symposium in Zhangjiakou, China. This giant steel teapot suggests an ancient ceramic relic reconstructed from broken pottery shards. With the help of local fabricators, the piece was built in three short weeks in time for the gala opening.

Martha Lake Community Park, Everett, WA

Inspired by the site’s former use as a small regional airstrip, Simple Arrow consists of a series of five stainless steel sculptures that describe the steps required to fold a simple paper airplane, or simple arrow. The sculptures are placed sixty feet apart on concrete pedestals and reveal the process of folding the airplane as the viewer walks along a footpath, each becoming progressively more folded or unfolded depending on the direction of travel.

Snohomish County Arts Commission

King County Library, Carnation, WA.

The colossal bronze lamp and side table serve as a contemporary sculptural site marker and a beacon for the library’s entry plaza.

King County Library System

The Carnation library was designed by Miller Hull Partnership, Seattle, WA

Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Seattle, WA

Reiquam led a team of six artists in the creation of a series of culturally inspired cut-out metal panels installed on Sound Transit's Martin Luther King Light Rail Corridor.

Painted and powder-coated aluminum panels suspended between OCS poles.

Sound Transit Public Art Program

Paine Field Community Park, Everett, WA

A sixteen-foot diameter flying saucer functions as an iconic sculpture and a unique plaza shelter. Landing Zone was recognized in 2008 by the Americans for the Arts – Public Art Network - Year-in-Review as one of the year’s outstanding public art projects nationwide.

Powdercoated aluminum, concrete, natural stone

Snohomish County Arts Commission

Willis Street Gateway, Kent, WA.

This cartoon corn recalls the history of the Kent Valley as a rich agricultural area. Big Corn was recognized in 2007 by the Americans for the Arts – Public Art Network - Year-in-Review as one of the year’s outstanding public art projects nationwide.

Powder-coated steel

Kent Arts Commission

Washington State University - Riverpoint Campus, Spokane, WA.

This installation consists of two over-size, polished granite armchairs, fabricated bronze coffee table and two bronze bookcases filled with internally illuminated cast-glass books. The outdoor reading room functions as a unique gathering place adjacent to a library and academic center.

Washington State Arts Commission Percent for Art project.

Civic Center Station, Los Angeles, CA

Four polished granite benches on LA Metro commuter-rail platform provide seating and encourage interaction among passengers.

LA Metro Public Art Program

King County International Airport, Seattle, WA

Cut-out steel panels depict a fictional city skyline inspired by 1930s aviation posters with exaggerated perspective, towering thunderclouds, glaring searchlights and a vintage Boeing 307 flying overhead.

The graphic image consists of three 4’ x 8’ panels repeated twice over the fence’s 77’ length.

Powdercoated steel

4Culture Public Art Program

Parkrose Dining Set and Parkrose Armchairs

Parkrose Station, Portland, OR

This installation of galvanized steel furniture sits on the Parkrose Station commuter-rail platform. In addition to the dining set and two armchairs seen here, the project includes four additional armchairs and two ottomans on an adjacent pedestrian plaza.

Tri-Met Public Art Project

Froula Park at Roosevelt Reservoir, Seattle, WA

The installation consists of a pair of cast concrete armchairs with bronze trim and a cast concrete side table sitting atop a shaped and textured concrete slab. The room is bordered by a concrete-block wall faced with cultured stone and topped with cast concrete capstones.

Seattle Arts Commission percent for Art project.

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Ten galvanized steel armchairs originally installed on a rooftop terrace at the University Hospital. The ten chairs are of three different styles, each having a distinctive pattern of drilled holes in its seat. The armchairs sit within tubular steel pavilion structures designed by Marc Treib and Frances Butler of Berkeley CA, fabricated and installed by Reiquam. In 1996, at the request of the University and with the approval of the other artists, Reiquam reconstructed the entire installation at Meany Hall for the Performing Arts on the University campus. The new site is more accessible to the public, situated in a series of courtyards on three levels and is visible from above. In it's current location, the installation serves as a quasi stage set inviting impromptu performances.

Washington State Arts Commission Percent for Art project.

Each armchair: 30”h x 30”w x 30”d.

THWACK! is the sound of an axe striking wood and serves as the onomatopoeic title for this colossal hatchet that appears to be embedded in the gallery floor. The piece was created for the B.A.M. Biennial Exhibition: Metalmorphosis at the Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA.

Powder-coated and painted aluminum