PERIODIC MOTION for the BART station at Oakland International Airport in California expands the idea that art is the experience we bring to it. The viewer inside the station is in the Work looking out. The artwork addresses the transition from rail to flight, land to air and space to create an immersive environment of diagonally oriented, motion-projected shapes that are connected linearly as a single gesture. The human mind envisions a departure and destination with points along the way. This conscious thought is depicted literally – expressing it visually by combining abstract shapes, symbols, signs and images discovered on subway, rail, air and space travel maps and along traveled paths and trails found in nature. The Work is specific to the airport; its appearance retains the aesthetic integrity of the open-air environment and the building materials that represent the technologies of our time.

SPACE: REAL AND IMAGINED | TOM PATTI: BEHIND THE GLASS
Corning Museum of Glass/ 4.25.16
In his Behind the Glass lecture, SPACE: Real and Imagined, Tom Patti, who recently completed a Specialty Glass Residency in Corning, discusses his life and projects, including work created during his residency. Patti is the second artist to have completed this residency program, which is offered to artists by invitation only through The Corning Museum of Glass and Corning Incorporated. In September 2015, Patti began working at Sullivan Park, Corning Incorporated’s global research and development center, focusing on an exclusive process using proprietary glasses developed by Corning scientists. "To study and work at Corning was an opportunity to engage with the world’s elite scientists and engineers. Exploring material processes and ideas in a manner that disconnected me from my studio environment and afforded innovation and insight … pushed my work forward and offered a creative thinking that sparked innovations in art and science." -Tom Patti

PERIODIC MOTION
BARTable/ 9.30.14
Artist Tom Patti's art installation,"Periodic Motion" greets passengers at Oakland International Airport.

Crews working on BART to OAK have now installed art glass panels in stations at both ends of the project.  This new video gives the public a sneak peek at how color and a sense of motion and flight are used in artist Tom Patti's art installation, "Periodic Motion."

The colorful art greets arriving passengers coming in from the Oakland International Airport side of the service.

MEET THE ARTIST: TOM PATTI
Corning Museum of Glass/ 9.26.11
Tom Patti is a widely respected artist who has devoted much of his career to researching different formulations of glasses and hot-forming techniques and to exploring industrial and architectural glass as a sculptural medium. Over the last 35 years, he has used glass to build and define spaces that transform surface, light, and color. In recent years, Patti has dramatically shifted the scale of his work from complex, small-scale objects to illusionistic environments made of architectural glass.

TOM PATTI - VOICES OF CONTEMPORARY GLASS
Corning Museum of Glass/ 5.20.09
Tom Patti explains his unique approach to working with glass. This video was featured in the exhibition "Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Collection" at The Corning Museum of Glass, May 16, 2009 -- January 2, 2011.