The Visual and Performing Arts Department couldn’t be prouder of sculpture professor Adela Andea and the spectacular installation she created, which is lighting up the George R. Brown in the colors of National Pride Month! Her dazzling work transforms a familiar summertime staple – pool noodles - into clouds of color and light. 

The installation spans 145 feet and is constructed from pool noodles sliced into hundreds of thousands of plastic discs, sewn onto wire mesh and strung from a truss 19 feet above the Avenida de las Americas. 

at Anya Tish Gallery

Romania-born, Texas-based artist Adela Andea is known for creating uniquely illuminated and kinetic sculptures. Using industrial electronics, lights, plastics and other mass-produced objects, Andea spawns futuristic ecosystems that ebb and flow between organic biological forms and glowing technological structures.