243:(July 1989) that Wigginton “seeks to objectify experience” of being “moved, elevated, transported” by the landscape. Woodbridge quoted Wigginton on one of his primary purposes: “I build platforms and bridges, places to sit and stand in order to intensify these moods.” Wigginton, Woodbridge said, “wants his landscapes to take hold of people and convert observers into participants.” Woodbridge emphasized Wigginton's focus on the time and place in which people find themselves. "I would never," she quoted him, "use a classical arch or any symbolic form that refers to some other time and place." Rather, Wigginton said, he wants people to "tap into that memory" of the landscape that has shaped their unique collective experience.
150:, noted that “the multifaceted process and sheer beauty of Wigginton’s art work are immediately intriguing” and that the “pieces reward on many levels. The more time taken, the more they are understood.” Thematically, Miller observed the focus on “power over death, power to create, spiritual power, and power as energy, from land, sun, water, wind, the atom.” But “rather than define sources” of this power, Miller wrote, “Wigginton seeks to expose human concepts about sources, as if he were a compassionate observer of all time and space, sitting on the edge of the universe.”
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258:. The firm completed several significant designs for public spaces. Vision Harlem was a conceptual study including drawings and recommendations for re-integrating culture, place, and history in the Harlem landscape. The study, containing ten illustrated site visions, was commissioned by the Harbor for Boys and Girls/United Settlement Houses and supported by the office of Rep.
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building sited and designed to create a campus-wide central pedestrian walk. Over the next two decades his work included campus design and implementation at San Diego Mesa
College, Grossmont-Cuyamaca College in San Diego County, the Stanford University reservoir project in Palo Alto, and the precedent-setting work for Cabrillo College in Aptos, California.
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founded Land Studio in San Diego in 1981 and after a brief partnership continued as the sole principal of the firm. Land Studio completed numerous projects in the San Diego area, many of which are open for public view, including the Union Bank
Building Plaza at La Jolla Center One, the Nexus Technology Park, and the Linda Vista Library and Community Center.
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Wigginton “has advanced the standing of landscape architecture through his exacting technical expertise in innovative design and sculptural form. was the first landscape architect to use fiber optics in the built landscape (at La Jolla Centre Plaza) and to create exterior freestanding
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during the mid-1980s. Land Studio designed the site and landscape architecture for a new Price
Student Center, amphitheater and fountain which also included the concept for the subsequent Library Walk (subsequently developed and implemented by Peter Walker's office), and the Molybiological Unit Two
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Orchard School in San Jose. In addition to public work, Wigginton designed landscapes for private residences in locations such as La Jolla, Del Mar, Saratoga, and Los Altos Hills. Among Land Studio's last public projects, still available for viewing in the area, are the site plan
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In 2002, Wigginton began working at his mountain studio in
Cascadel Woods, North Fork, California. There, he began a new series of ethereal paintings on canvas and aluminum panels. In 2018, he completed "Experimental Heavens" the fifth monograph of paintings designed by graphic artist Lynn Robb of
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that the series consisted of “twelve works combining painting and sculpture," all “visual metaphors for physical and spiritual power, for nature and man. . . . The paintings are abstract landscapes, skyscapes, or simply atmospheres. The sculptural forms . . . represent both man-made, architectural
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The founder of a landscape architecture firm, Land Studio, Wigginton entered the field following a decade as an exhibiting painter and sculptor. He is one of a relative few without a degree in
Landscape Architecture to pass the state exam and become certified to practice in California. Wigginton
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Oakland, the Alma Place SRO in Palo Alto, the Berkeley Amtrak Rail Stop, and the site and landscape design concept for the new Berkeley Bowl Market. A majority of his work may be accessed through "The Ron Wigginton Collection" established in 2006 at the University of California, Berkeley,
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He returned to Japan in 1977 for an extended stay, establishing a painting studio close to the Mizumi
Gallery in Tokyo and meeting international artists including Agnes Martin. On his return to the U.S., he settled in San Diego, where he studied with Niwa landscape master Takendo Arii.
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In 2016, Wigginton founded the 200 acre STAR Ranch in North Fork dedicated to the landscape arts. The following year he completed infrastructure and first land forming and began agricultural building design and construction with architect Rob
Wellington Quigley.
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in Mountain View, California. His painting "Birth Puzzle" was featured in the 2009 exhibit, "Dreaming: Selections from the Permanent Collection," and "Earth Forming/Logic Forming" was included in the 2011 exhibit, "Velocity," at the
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Wigginton has continued his work in painting and sculpture throughout his career in landscape architecture. The introduction to his works collected at the Environmental Design Archives at the
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notes that “Wigginton has been recognized for his art-informed approach to landscape design, continuing to work on art installations and paintings throughout his professional career." In the
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In 2007, Wigginton closed Land Studio's regular operations. Wigginton now maintains Land Studio on a consulting basis for site architecture. He continues to paint at studios in
224:(January 1989), the jury noted particularly the aesthetic achievement of the design. The jury, whose members included the university chancellor as well as artist and professor
182:, Chip Sullivan and Elizabeth Boults wrote that "Ron Wigginton was one of the first Landscape Architects to approach the design of a landscape as a conceptual work of art."
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forms . . . and natural, topographic features, such as mountains and oceans. Installed at eye level, the pieces are small worlds for exploration.” Elise Miller, reviewing
78:(1988), Wigginton tells of an early and ongoing affinity for Japanese culture which led to a hitchhiking trip through Japan in 1970. There he met Japanese potters and
122:, the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, Portland, Oregon, the Center for Folk Art and Contemporary Crafts, San Francisco, the Rainer Bank Collection, Seattle, and the
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Landscape as Theater piece at the University Art Museum for “Celebrating 75 Years—Department of Landscape Architecture,” University of California, Berkeley (1988)
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elevator corridors to solve complex ADA problems at Cabrillo College. He was also the first artist or landscape architect appointed a Resident Fellow at the
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in Seattle. Paintings and sculptures from this period and afterward are held in numerous private and public collections, including the
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Individual Grant for Design Innovation, National Endowment for the Arts: Design Arts, Carbon-Fiber Landscape Viewing Platforms (1993).
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Santa Monica. The five books consist of seventy-five works shown consecutively in unbroken sequence created over four years.
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American Society of Landscape Architects National Merit Award for Six Metaphysical Gardens, Escondido, California (1995).
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American Society of Landscape Architects/Northern California Chapter Merit Award for Los Altos Hills Residence (2002).
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was awarded first prize in a 1988 NEA International Design Arts competition. According to Jory Johnson, writing in
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