For Immediate Release · 2023
Ken Kelleher’s Hand Drawn Sculpture Anchors IQHQ’s RaDD on the San Diego Waterfront
A five-metre blue stainless steel work translates the freedom of a drawn line into permanent architectural form.
San Diego, California
SAN DIEGO — Internationally recognized sculptor Ken Kelleher, also known as Anchorball, has installed a five-metre blue stainless steel sculpture from his Hand Drawn Series at IQHQ’s Research and Development District (RaDD) — the largest urban commercial waterfront development on California’s Pacific coast, spanning more than ten acres and six blocks.
The Hand Drawn Series begins with the immediacy of a spontaneous line and translates that gesture into a permanent three-dimensional form. What would ordinarily exist for only a moment on paper becomes physical, architectural and inhabitable — preserving the speed and instinct of the artist’s hand at monumental scale.
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A line drawn in a second can carry more energy than almost anything else. The Hand Drawn works are about capturing that instinct and making it permanent — turning a gesture into architecture people can walk around.— Ken Kelleher (aka Anchorball)
For developers, the work demonstrates how sculpture can become an integral part of placemaking, establishing a sense of arrival and giving a major development a distinctive, human identity.
The RaDD installation extends Kelleher’s Hand Drawn Series into significant civic and commercial environments, where the freedom of drawing meets the discipline of engineered form.
