Urban Palisades

LOCATION
KCMO Police - Central Patrol Division, 1200 Linwood Blvd, Kansas City, MO
OWNER
City of Kansas City, Missouri
ARTIST
Jay Markel
DEDICATED
February 1994
MEDIUM
Steel, bronze
“Urban Palisades” is an urban representation of a mountain range with its intersecting metal bars forming a type of landscape. Two steel posts support a bronze latticework that creates the mountainous landscape. What looks to be a stone caught in the middle of the latticework is actually cast bronze as well. The dark-green,undulating sculpture provides a contrast to the light-coloured, geometric architecture of the police station behind it. It also casts some interesting-looking shadows.
Part of the City of Kansas City’s One Percent for the Arts Program.