Artwork Detail

Chris Natrop’s artwork Reflecting Within Us is located in the east lobby of the Zev Yaroslavsky Family Support Center, which integrates services of seven County departments - Public Social Services, Children and Family Services, Child Support Services, Health Services, Mental Health, Public Health, and Probation - into a single campus. This engaging sculpture enlivens the lobby area through the use of more than one hundred intricate silhouettes suspended around a wooden ceiling structure. Cut from highly polished, lightweight stainless steel, the mirrored surfaces of birds in flight, plant life, gentle river-eddies, and cloud formations interact with ambient light from adjacent windows to create an interplay of delicate shadows. The highly reflective material also allows the sculpture to continuously change over time, giving visitors the opportunity to make new discoveries each time they visit. Over the children’s area, the sculpture becomes even more playful and magical. In the words of the Artist: "My work is not complete until others become part of it."

Chris Natrop is a Los Angeles-based visual artist known primarily for immersive art installations and 2D wall-works made of hand-cut paper. He has also been commissioned to produce permanent sculptures for private and public spaces including the U.S. Consulate in Dubai, Los Angeles International Airport, Harry Winston Jewelers, and Facebook, Inc. He was an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts, and a resident at Vermont Studio School, and received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1992 with an emphasis in painting. To learn more visit: www.chrisnatrop.com