George Trakas

Trakas taught sculpture at Yale University for 13 years and has also taught at other schools.

George Trakas studied at New York University. The field of work recorded is environmental sculpture. Works named in the authority record are Hook (Archean Reach), Line (Sea House), and Sinker (Mined Swell). Work by George Trakas is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Canada, MTA Arts & Design Permanent Art Collection and Michael C. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.

• Name — George Trakas • Born — 1944 • Birthplace — Quebec City, Quebec, Canada • Training — New York University, B.S., 1969 • Field — Environmental Sculptor

George Trakas married Susan Rothenberg, a painter, in 1971. Their daughter Maggie was born in 1972. They divorced in 1979 but remained close until Rothenberg's death in 2020.

Notable recent examples of Trakas's work include a waterfront nature walk at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brooklyn, New York; another waterfront installation adjacent to the Dia:Beacon museum in Beacon, New York; and public art in the New York City Subway at the Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center station. The following table contains a partial list of works by George Trakas. • Title — Location — Description — Year — References • Pont Épée — Thiers, France — Set of walkways and bridges on the Durolle river next to the "Creux-de-l'enfer" — 1985 • Beacon Point — Beacon, New York — Angling deck, boardwalk, & restored bulkhead in Long Dock Park on a 25-acre peninsula adjacent to Dia:Beacon museum — 2007 • The pathway of love — Santomato, Pistoia — A path made of iron and wood that crosses a romantic forest alongside a stream — 1982 • Shoreline Nature Walkway — Brooklyn, New York — Nature walk adjacent to the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant — 2007 • Hook (Archean Reach), Line (Sea House), and Sinker (Mined Swell) — Brooklyn, New York — Public sculpture inside the Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center station of the New York City Subway — 2004 • Reconnections — Belmullet, Ireland — Footbridge across a canal in County Mayo that has since been replaced — 1993 • Self Passage — Humlebæk, Denmark — Site-specific sculpture leading to a waterside platform, in the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's sculpture park. — 1989 • Berth Haven — Seattle, Washington — A cedar and steel lakeside deck on the premises of an NOAA facility. Rests on foundations remaining from the site’s prior use as navy airfield. — 1983 • Source Route — Atlanta, Georgia — Site-specific sculpture in a wooded area of the Emory University campus — 1979

• Illustration — The "pont Epée" in Thiers. • Illustration — Newtown Creek Nature Walk: "Vessel" entrance • Illustration — Newtown Creek Nature Walk: Whale Creek, sewage plant in distance • Illustration — Newtown Creek Nature Walk: steps into the water • Illustration — Beacon Point, view of entire site, looking westward toward Newburgh, NY. • Illustration — Beacon Point, looking northward, showing mouth of channel that runs through the piece. • Illustration — Beacon Point, looking eastward, showing other end of the channel. • Illustration — Line sculpture in the former control house of the Atlantic Avenue station.