Art

Explore our extensive public art collection. Terminal A | Terminal B

Infuse your journey with culture before you ever leave the ground. As home to works from internationally renowned artists, Sacramento International gives every traveler the chance to experience artistic inspiration up close in a variety of media.

Terminal A

alavi flying carpet

Flying Carpet

by Seyed Alavi

  • Medium: Digital Print, Woolen Carpet

  • Location: Terminal A | Pedestrian bridge from parking garage

A digital, aerial image is woven into a woolen carpet displaying 50 miles of the Sacramento River and recalling the experience of flight.

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Traveling Light

by Leslie Birleson

  • Medium: Polycarbonate, screen printed silk, aircraft aluminum

  • Location: Terminal A | Terminal A above ticket counter

Lighted silk sculptures represent the diversity of travel.

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Samson

by Brian Goggin

  • Medium: Mixed media

  • Location: Terminal A | Terminal A Baggage Claim

Two 23' pillars are constructed with luggage dating from the conceptual genesis of the airplane to the present. The pillars support the ceiling as travelers metaphorically support the space itself.

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Chromatic Oasis

by Christopher Janney

  • Medium: Interactive - multimedia

  • Location: Terminal A | Terminal A 2nd floor before security checkpoint

Large, flat colored glass forms are suspended beneath a skylight to bathe walkers below in colored light, while movement below the forms triggers melodic " historic Sacramento" sounds.

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River’s Edge

by Gregory Kondos

  • Medium: Etched & colored glass

  • Location: Terminal A | Terminal A exterior transom windows

Glass panels showing scenes along the Sacramento River.

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Flying Gardens

by Dennis Oppenheim

  • Medium: Steel, Acrylic, Lexan, Fiberglass, Expanded Metal, Vines

  • Location: Terminal A | Terminal A entry road and parking structure

12 massive bird sculptures are mounted at varying heights along the airport-facing façade of the Parking Garage and in the landscaped area near Terminal A.


Terminal B

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Acorn Steam

by Donald Lipski

  • Medium: Wood, steel, laytex, Polished Austrian crystals (Swarovski)

  • Location: Terminal B | Concourse

The artist means to bring the outside in to the airport, while paying homage to Sacramento's native oak trees, which sustained the Nisenan (Southern Maidu) and Plains Miwok Indians with their acorns.

12 stuermer migration

Migration

by Marcia Stuermer

  • Medium: Acrylic Panels, LED lights

  • Location: Terminal B | International Arrivals

The flock of cranes depicted in this work is oriented to be traveling away from the baggage claim area, providing a subliminal way-finding mechanism to the weary traveler as well as echoing the intended flow pattern within the space.

11 livinglenses wordmusic

Your Words are Music to My Ears

by Po Shu Wang/ Louise Bertelsen (Living Lenses)

  • Medium: Steel, Bronze Finish

  • Location: Terminal B | Concourse

Part free Wi-Fi terminal and part musical instrument, this artwork allows passengers to entertain passengers with an instant literary-based musical composition.

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Untitled

by Ned Kahn

  • Medium: Stainless Steel, Steel

  • Location: Terminal B | APM bridge

An array of small wind vanes respond to the turbulence of the passing trains as well as the natural wind.

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Flying Colors

by Suzanne Adan

  • Medium: Glass Mosaic

  • Location: Terminal B | Transfer Level

The artwork depicts a whimsical landscape designed to appeal to youthful imaginations and engage the viewer in a playful and humorous way before boarding his/her flight.

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As the Crow Flies

by Lynn Criswell

  • Medium: Aluminum, Terrazzo, Polyurethane

  • Location: Terminal B | Transfer Level

Twenty-one silhouettes of various indigenous Northern Californian birds are inset into the floor and filled with black terrazzo. Each suspended cage is hung directly over a bird silhouette.

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A Fragment of the Universe

by Joan Moment

  • Medium: Glass Mosaic

  • Location: Terminal B | Transfer Level

The mosaic depicts an imaginary world of water and air.

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Sutter’s Gold

by Greg Kondos

  • Medium: Oil on canvas

  • Location: Terminal B | International Arrivals exit

The painting is inspired by the discovery of gold in 1848 and its historical significance to the Sacramento region.

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The Baggage Handlers

by Christian Moeller

  • Medium: Wood, Steel

  • Location: Terminal B | Ticket Hall

"The Baggage Handlers" depicts the faces of six airport operation workers. The artwork recognizes these workers as part of the largely invisible labor force at the Airport.

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Leap

by Lawrence Argent

  • Medium: Aluminum, Steel, Granite, Bronze

  • Location: Terminal B | Ticket Hall

The artist chose to make a sculpture of a rabbit to appear as though it was leaping from the outside of the airport - in- and because it is instantly recognizable but allows airport users to come up with their own story or answer to the question, “Why a red rabbit”? Leap is 56-feet tall and weighs 10,000 pounds.