An Engineer & Artist led fabrication studio
Art Project Partners (APP) specializes in bringing together art, community, bold ideas, craftsmanship, and solutions. We can solve the most complex art project using creative problem solving, precise engineering, and unparalleled fabrication ability. APP is designed to work with you on everything from installations, to fine art sculpture, and especially monumental & public art.
We help artists, organizations, and businesses to create bold, iconic, and driven works of art in the public realm. From consultation, design, engineering, budget analysis, fabrication, and installation…. Together, we have worked on projects totaling ~ $24 Million in budget from internationally renowned artists over the past 20 years.
Our Services
"Eric Dallimore directly collaborated with me for several months at my New York studio on all aspects of the production, exhibition, and crating of my sculptures. He also was responsible for the general organization and optimization of my studio. His professionalism and dedication were exemplary, and Eric was, without exception, beloved by all of his colleagues on my studio staff…especially me. He’s a smart, highly capable, extremely responsible guy. I am certain that Eric will continue his reign of excellence at Art Project Partners!"
- Barry X Ball, Artist
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Our fabrication expertise spans a wide range of materials including but not limited to: mild and stainless steel, plastics, glass, wood, stone and concrete. Our technical experience includes but is not limited to: MIG and TIG welding, CNC cutting/routing, machining, sheet metal formation, tube bending, sandblasting/powder coating, mold making and casting, 3d printing, and integrated LED systems.
Our versatility allows us to bring complex designs to life with precision, durability, and dynamic visual impact. If we don’t have an in-house ability, we work with a network of reliable outside experts who can make most imagined realities possible
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Our project management philosophy is rooted in adaptability and creative problem-solving. We navigate complex workflows, tight timelines, and unique design challenges to ensure your project’s success without compromising its artistic vision.
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Our lead engineer has a background in mechanical engineering and aerospace. We approach client projects with exacting standards and the rigor required for high-performance technology, ensuring durability, functionality, safety, and visual impact.
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We provide detailed project cost analysis to ensure your vision aligns with your budget without compromising quality. Our process identifies cost-saving opportunities while maintaining the integrity and impact of the final design. With over two decades of experience budgeting public art and sculpture projects, we help our clients avoid challenging unexpected costs.
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Our expertise in SolidWorks merges artistic vision with technical precision. SolidWorks allows us to craft detailed, dynamic models that can be exported as cut files, ensuring seamless integration from design to real-world fabrication. Our expertise in SolidWorks and experience as artists and fabricators of our own works will contribute technical expertise to your design’s development. Our myriad of tools allow us to craft detailed, dynamic models that can be exported as cut files, ensuring seamless integration from design to real-world fabrication.
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We develop installation methodology and manage complex installations with precision and care. Our large flatbed truck, box truck, and telehandler that can lift up to 7,000 lbs on a 45-foot boom can transport and install large-scale projects with ease. If we don’t own the machinery, we can find it, rent it, and operate it. Our team members are trained in heavy equipment operation and proper rigging. We strictly adhere to OSHA standards and employ comprehensive safety measures.
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Our consulting services support artists and organizations through professional development, art commission contract review and negotiation, and art curation and placemaking.
Selected Projects
Nora Mirage
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Artist: Phillip K. Smith III
Reflective Aluminum
11 Volumes, Each volume: 20’-0” high x 10’-0” diameter, 6 m x 3 m
2023
Commissioned by Dolce & Gabbana for the 2024 Alta Moda event, Nora Mirage reveals itself as a lucid dream - seemingly real and unreal at the same time. The eleven tilted monoliths abstractly present the beauty of the Sardinian environment across its reflective surface – lifting the Mediterranean Sea, pulling down the Sardinian sky, tilting the horizon and collaging the ruins and history of Nora.
APP enjoyed working with Phillip K Smith III with this contract & legal affairs on this project. APP did not provide fabrication or installation services for this project. Fabrication and installation was provided by a third party.
Open Sky
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Artist: Phillip K. Smith III
Milan, Italy - Salone Del Mobile
Mirror polished stainless steel, aluminum, plywood, concrete composite panels
44’-2.375” x 11’-2.675”, 13.5 x 3.4m
2018
Open Sky transforms the overhead square of sky of Palazzo Isimbardi’s courtyard into a grounded, physical ring of reflected sky. Upon entry into the courtyard, one is faced with the tactile, yet abstract presence of the immense, circular form. Moving through the colonnade to the far side of the courtyard, the palazzo’s 16th century architecture is seen angularly reconfigured across the faceted, reflective surface. Approaching the center of the installation, the angle of reflection shifts and the architecture slowly pulls away like a curtain, opening up the sky. At the center, one is fully encircled by the sublime, slowly paced physicality of the sky’s changing color gradient and the shifting clouds. It is an installation that is always in a constant state of flux as the colors of the environment shift, as the light of the day changes, and as the viewer moves through the space, resulting in an entirely unique experience for every individual that can never be replicated.
APP enjoyed working with Phillip K Smith III with this contract & legal affairs on this project. APP did not provide fabrication or installation services for this project. Fabrication and installation was provided by a third party.
Tri/Hex/Circ
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Artist: Phillip K Smith III
Steel, White Industrial Paint
50’ x 8’ x 8
2024
Extending over 50’ vertically to the sky, TRI-HEX-CIRC engages directly with the movement of the sun to create an ever-shifting light and shadow icon for North Scottsdale. Twisting from a 4’-0” diameter circle at its base to a hexagon to an 8’-0” sided triangle at the top, the entire sculpture is cut at 30 degrees creating 32 slices, all 12” high. The gap between each slice expands as the artwork lifts upward, allowing the desert air and sky to enter into the artwork, while creating a sense of float. Driving around the roundabout, TRI-HEX-CIRC’s geometrically precise surface reveals a varying canvas composed entirely of light and shadow radically changing throughout the day.
APP enjoyed working with Phillip K Smith III with this contract & legal affairs on this project. APP did not provide fabrication or installation services for this project. Fabrication and installation was provided by a third party.
Fabrication and installation by Demiurge LLC.
"Mike Lustig and APP are trusted partners in my studio. He has reviewed and negotiated contracts for Nora Mirage, The Cube, TRI-HEX-CIRC, Three Half Lozenges - Newark Museum of Art, and Open Sky - Milan. Knowing that the legal side of a project is as considered as the conceptual ideas, fabrication methodologies, and installation details is crucial to the full success of any project. For every project that involves a contract, Mike and APP are my first call. As a lawyer AND an artist, Mike is uniquely positioned to be able to address contract concerns in the art world. His understanding of the law and what it takes to get to the finish line on a project are equally considered in our discussions, his review, and final contract notes."
-Phillip K. Smith, Artist
Three Half lozenges
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Artis: Phillip K. Smith III
Existing historic windows, alupoly, aluminum, LED lighting, electronic components, unique color program
46'-0" x 33'-6" (each of the three windows: 10'-0"x33'-6")
2017-2021
Three Half Lozenges is a collaboration with the existing three historic double-height windows that define the 1920's facade of the Newark Museum of Art. Using the division and layout of the window panes as a canvas for light, this shifting light installation links directly to the artist's on-going series of lozenge-shaped Lightworks. Located within the context of Downtown Newark, the installation was uniquely color choreographed by Smith as a precisely paced, full spectrum work experienced from the streets and buildings surrounding Washington Park. Shifting from linear to rectangular to lozenge within gradating and full fields of color, the three half lozenge-shaped windows operate as a monumental light-based triptych at the scale of architecture. During the day, the facade remained as its true, historic self, but at sunset, the windows slowly emerge as full color reconfiguring one's experience of the Museum, Washington Park, and the City itself.
APP enjoyed working with Phillip K Smith III with this contract & legal affairs on this project. APP did not provide fabrication or installation services for this project. Fabrication and installation was provided by a third party.
The Cube
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Artist: Phillip K. Smith III
Composite structure, steel, automotive paint
18’ x 18’ x 18’
2024
The Cube creates a sculptural icon at the public plaza and nexus of the Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill-designed La Jolla Commons office complex. The architecture crops out the surrounding buildings and frames the sky, allowing The Cube to interact directly with the shifting and often idyllic La Jolla sky. Tilted up onto its point, the cubic sculpture both merges and contrasts with the architecture. Each face torques from its square boundary towards a cylindrical opening at the center that connects all 6 sides together as an infinite, cubic, torus form. As each face torques, the La Jolla sky becomes an integral part of the artwork, wrapping across the sculpture’s glossy, metallic silver surface. As the sky of La Jolla changes, so The Cube changes.
APP enjoyed working with Phillip K Smith III with this contract & legal affairs on this project. APP did not provide fabrication or installation services for this project. Fabrication and installation was provided by a third party.
The Dreams we carry
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Artist: Kipp Kobayashi
Stainless Steel Mesh
Variable Dimensions
Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, St Paul, Minneapolis
2025
Inspired by the diverse and temporal nature of the airport community and how it is inclusive of travelers and airport staff as well as the people of the surrounding neighborhoods and cities, I began to think about how these worlds intersect, what ties them together and most of all, how does it add up to make this place unique?
Through public outreach and in-person events, we asked the question: You’re offered a one-way ticket wherever you’d like to go. Who knows when you’ll return? What three things would you take along? In total, we spoke with over 1,000 individuals and received written feedback, stories, and images from hundreds of participants, whose responses revealed those cherished possessions that define the profound aspects of our identity. They are reimagined here into a cloud-like composition of floating suitcases and bags swirling in the center of the rotunda, carrying within them the pieces of the multiple narratives that tell the story of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport and the people who pass through it.
Y’all
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Artist: Mike Lustig
Stainless Steel & Dichroic Acyrlics
15 ‘ x 9’ x 2’
2023
In my family, y'all is part of our vernacular. It's a word that combines the individual with the collective, with both parts being equally necessary for the whole. By using color-shifting material, it's my intention to represent the diversity of humanity and the vast spectrum of differences that make each of us unique. The reflectivity of this material shows the viewer as an individual within this shared spectrum. Through overlaying these materials, this sculpture duplicates your reflection, turning you into y'all, and joining you with the collective. I feel so grateful to have been given the opportunity to amplify and celebrate y'all as a permanent, public art monument for Atlanta, Georgia on the Steel Bridge. Y'ALL is made of stainless steel, dichroic acrylic, and a font that I designed. It took the help of so many people to bring this project to fruition.
Untitled #6209
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Eric R. Dallimore
Reclaimed wood from 29 homes in New Orleans, destroyed by Hurricane Katrina
12.5’ x 16’ x 24’
2009
A salvaged-wood Tsunami created in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina through a grant from the Arts Council of New Orleans in collaboration with the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Completed in 2009.
The wood was recovered and documented from 29 homes destroyed after Hurricane Katrina. The original color of each home has been preserved to celebrate the vibrancy of New Orleans neighborhoods.Untitled 6209 was decommissioned in 2012 after residing at the historic LongueVue House & Gardens.
Zagolith
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Evan Beloni
Stainless Steel, Mild Steel
18” x 24” x 92”
2021
Zagolith is an experiment in combining mild and stainless steels. The rotated varient is the second of the series and has a great quality of changing shape based on viewing angle. It needs to be experienced in real life. Originally installed at Black Rock City during Burning Man, Zagolith currently live at the Arvada Center.
Rainbow canopy
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Artists: Evan Beloni & Mike Lustig
Stainless Steel & Dichroic Acrylic
60’ x 30’ x 6’
2023
Rainbow Canopy is a suspended sculpture of dichroic leaves and stainless steel branches installed in the office of a globally ubiqitous tech company in Kirkland, Washington. Co-created and Co-fabricated with Mike Lustig & Evan Beloni. This project was made possible through NINE dot ARTS.
Crescendo
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Artist: Mike Lustig
Mirrored Stainless Steel, RGB LEDs, 200,000 Lumen Internal Projection System, Independent Equatorial and Multi-Hemespheric Rotation Sytem, DMX Controller, Ethernet
8’ (Diamter)
2019
Crescendo, the disco ball of AEG's Mission Ballroom in Denver, CO, is an 8 ft diameter, 6v geodesic sphere, made of 720 panels of hand-hammered mirrored stainless steel, 394 RGB Leds, a 200,000 lumen internal light projection system, and independent equatorial and multi-hemispheric rotation system, all controlled with DMX through ethernet.
Evan Beloni provided engineering services on this project. Other fabrication and installation was provided by a third party.
The Ghost & The Scholar
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Eric R. Dallimore
Reclaimed Excavator, Acrylic Paint, Pine Beetle Kill Wood, Wood Stain
26’ x 24’ x 11’
2021
The Ghost & The Scholar has been fabricated from a reclaimed Caterpillar 315 Excavator featuring a collaboration with bunny M.
Dahlias, zinnias, Shasta daisies, and echinacea are natural mandalas represented on the excavator. Their symmetry and energy foster an organic balance for the industrial side of our world, represented by the excavator's arm.
The Ghost & The Scholar is a celebration of Denver’s industrial roots and its modern vibrancy. It observes the relationship between the cultural riches of city life and our collective passion for nature.
The porcupine quills suspended across the ceiling represent the lessons learned from an encounter with a porcupine: to remain confident in who we are, there is no need to rush, worry, or be aggressive. We can rely on our armor of quills to protect us.
House of the phoenix
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Artist: Eric R. Dallimore
Reclaimed Steel Door Jambs, Powdercoat
9’ x 5’ x 7’
2021“AYSC House of the Phoenix” is a commission through Think 360 Arts with Adams County Youth Services Center.
This sculpture has been fabricated from reclaimed door jambs. The choice of reclaiming discarded materials is not only an environmental statement, but its equally important function is to remind students at the facility that what once is considered discarded and useless, can still be precious and valuable.
“AYSC House of the Phoenix” is designed around the concept that these young men and women are experiencing a very tumultuous time in their lives. Their entire world is being turned upside down and their home life is completely shattered and transformed forever. As they walk across the campus or sit under a tree to think about life, it is my hope that they will find this towering sculpture as a source of inspiration to remind them that it’s not all over. There is such a bright future ahead of them if they are willing to take ownership of their actions and begin to take the necessary steps to heal and grow as young adults. Using the form of two homes, one upside down and stacked on top of the other will represent the core concept that their home life is undergoing significant changes. It may be some time before they are home again, so they will need to create and find a new home here at AYSC and within themselves.
The choice of blue and red represent two important symbols at AYSC; The Fire Phoenix & The Water Phoenix. Fire represents creation, destruction, transformation, and motivation. Fire consumes, but not without giving back light and warmth. It has great power for forging will and determination.
Water is the subconscious and purification. Water is the source of all life, without it the trees would not grow, the molecules would not form, and we would not be here, as our body is made up primarily of water. I believe that the students will draw many of their own inspirations around the idea of fire and water, and several teachers will be able to also use this concept in their classrooms.
During the year that I worked with Adams County Youth Services to teach students about public art and to create the concept for “Untitled”, we also discussed a number of books that were transformative to their lives. We decided that we wanted to share these important works with other students at the facility, to hopefully inspire them in the same way that my students were inspired.
Dichrolions
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Artist: Evan Beloni
Stainless Steel & Dichroiic polycarbonate
15’ x 50’ x 12
2024
Dichrolions is a permanent installation in Holly Park in Centential CO commissioned by South Suburban Parks and Rec. The sculpture is a series of ten individual curved stainless steel stalks with rotating dichroic decorations on top. The dicroic utilizes a secret patterning technique which results in an incredible experience when viewed from up close.
Whee
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Artist: Mike Lustig
Stainless Steel, Dichroic Acrylic
16.5’ x 14.5”
2024
This kinetic sculpture is 16.5' tall with a 15' diameter, is made from stainless steel and dichroic acrylic, and can be spun via a wheel on the column. Whee is about community and the ascension that can occur when we come together through growth and play. The spiral is composed of 12 panels containing a botanical design and color-shifting material that represents diversity of backgrounds and perspectives growing and ascending together. On top is an icosahedron, seen by some as a twenty-sided die. Sometimes with growth, you have to roll the dice.
Evan Beloni provided engineering and fabrication on this project. A third party provided other fabrication and installation for this project.
10,000 Points of light
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Mike Lustig
Fiberglass, Mirrored Glass Tile, LED, Dichroic Glass
50’ x 18’
2022
"10,000 Points of Light” is the primary lobby wall art installation for the Hyatt Regency in Salt Lake City, Utah. This installation is comprised of 38 fiberglass panels, covered in over 10,000 mirrored glass tiles from Ukraine.Evan Beloni performed engineering and design work on this project.
Legacy Trees
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Airworks
Stainless Steel, polycarbonate
Each Tree: 25’ x 14’ x 14’
2025
Our latest project with artists, George & Melanie Walker (Airworks), APP fabricated 2 trees to stand at the entrance of the new development at the Aurora Metro Legacy Apartments. When the winds pick up, the birds resting on the tree limbs act as wind vanes and spin on their branches. Each house lights up at night to illuminate the scupture and provide a magical nightscape to the complex.
This land over time
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Eric R. Dallimore
Pine Beetle Kill Wood, Cable Wires, Turnbuckles, Steel, Hand Painted Banners
12’ x 25’ x 24’
2018
This site-specific installation consisted of three archways (roughly 12 ‘x 16’ x 8’ each) built from Colorado pine beetle kill wood lined with hand painted panels depicting the rich history of the South Platte River area. Senior residents at Balfour at Riverfront Park worked with artist Eric Robert Dallimore, Think 360 Arts and the students of the Denver Downtown Expeditionary School on these bold and contemporary installations. This Land Over Time was created through the PS You Are Here Grant from Denver Arts & Venues.
These 3 arches tell the history of the beautiful land surrounding Commons Park by reaching back to the early dinosaurs that once roamed these lands, and move forward through history to celebrate the herds of bison that crossed the plains, eventually leading to the Tee-Pee which represents the Native Americans who settled this area. A second canopy telling the story of the Fur Traders + Pioneers who settled this land in their covered wagons, which eventually led to the Gold Rush. The final canopy takes us into the modern era, with the Founding of Denver and the Train Tracks which used to run through this area in volume, culminating with our now vibrant community of Riverfront Park.
This Land Over Time provides a creative solution to the ever changing and rapidly growing identity of Riverfront Park. By providing a historical narrative of what stood before us around Commons Park, we can more respectfully create a new identity for Riverfront Park in the 21st century.
Simultaneous self
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Mike Lustig
Glass Mirrors, Dichroic Acrylic, Steel, LEDs, Microcontroller
7’ x 4’ x 1.5’
2021
Simultaneous Self is an encased mirror and dichroic sculpture commissioned by Meow Wolf for Convergence Station in Denver, Colorado.