A temporary public art installation, entitled “Shrumen Lumen,” is lighting up downtown Danville in the evenings.
Created by FoldHaus, an art collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area led by Joerg Student and Jesse Silver, the large mushroom-shaped artwork features an umbrella-like mechanism that changes the shape of the mushrooms’ cap. Originally created for Burning Man, at night, the artwork is a rainbow of LED colors.
The two 14-foot installations, both with the same name, are located at the Town Green, 400 Front St., and the Art Gallery at the Village Theatre, 233 Front St. The public art is an extension of Art Gallery at the Village Theatre’s exhibition “Altered & Reimagined,” featuring artwork created using recycled and found objects.
They will be on display through Labor Day.
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One of two temporary public art installations, both entitled “Shrumen Lumen,” is photographed on the Town Green in Danville on Wednesday. A second “Shrumen Lumen” mushroom is in place in front of Danville’s Village Theatre & Art Gallery. During the day, the large mushrooms are an ethereal white, but at night, the mushrooms’ caps, which change shape via an umbrella-like mechanism, are illuminated by a rainbow of LED lights. The artwork was created by FoldHaus, an art collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and led by Joerg Student and Jesse Silver. The “Shrumen Lumens” will be on display from Memorial Day through Labor Day. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) Everly Robinson, 3, of Danville, looks at one of two temporary public art installations, both entitled “Shrumen Lumen,” on the Town Green in Danville on Wednesday. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) Laura Wahl, of Danville, takes a photo of one of two temporary public art installations entitled “Shrumen Lumen” in the Town Green in Danville on Wednesday. A second “Shrumen Lumen” mushroom is in place in front of Danville’s Village Theatre & Art Gallery. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) Carl Robinson, his wife Kara, and their daughter Everly, 3, of Danville, look at one of two temporary public art installations, both entitled “Shrumen Lumen,” on the Town Green in Danville. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) One of two temporary public art installations, both entitled “Shrumen Lumen,” is photographed on the Town Green in Danville. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)
