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Gateway to Downey - Sunlight Shadows | Public Sculptures by Karena Massengill | Downey Gateway in Downey. Item made of aluminum
Gateway to Downey - Sunlight Shadows | Public Sculptures by Karena Massengill | Downey Gateway in Downey. Item made of aluminum
Gateway to Downey - Sunlight Shadows | Public Sculptures by Karena Massengill | Downey Gateway in Downey. Item made of aluminum
Gateway to Downey - Sunlight Shadows | Public Sculptures by Karena Massengill | Downey Gateway in Downey. Item made of aluminum
Gateway to Downey - Sunlight Shadows | Public Sculptures by Karena Massengill | Downey Gateway in Downey. Item made of aluminum

Created and Sold by Karena Massengill

Karena Massengill

Gateway to Downey - Sunlight Shadows - Public Sculptures

Featured In Downey Gateway, Downey, CA

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Sunlight Shadows 28 panels, 30”x60”, laser cut, powder coated, 1/16” aluminum
Commissioned by: Westland Real Estate Group, Location: Downey Gateway, Downey, CA

Sunlight Shadows provides a window from which to glimpse reflective ideas that relate to Downey’s history and cultural development. It illustrates community involvement with retail, family fun, dining out, performance, even invention and innovative thought.

The shadows are abstracted through the light refraction, and dance on the ground enabling a variety of interpretations. The goal is to encourage the general public to enjoy, learn, and be inspired while viewing images that reference pivotal moments for the City of Downey.

Item Gateway to Downey - Sunlight Shadows
Created by Karena Massengill
As seen in Downey Gateway, Downey, CA
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Karena Massengill
Meet the Creator

Karena Massengill

Los Angeles, CA

Wescover creator since 2019
Originally from Ukiah, California as a child, Karena took art classes at the Mendocino Art Center. After attending Goddard College in Vermont, California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, and Temple University, Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, graduated from there with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 1975.

Immigrating to Canada Karena worked as an artist receiving numerous grants exhibiting her work and creating public art projects. Being paid by the Canadian government while training as a welder-fitter at George Brown College she worked alongside convicted felons seeking a job on the pipeline while her goal was to be the female David Smith!

She continued to work as a professional artist on large-scale public art projects as a welder fitter. At the University of Toronto, Karena earned a Bachelor in Art Education and Industrial Technology in 1983. She married her Australian husband in Canada before moving to Long Beach, California in 1986.

In 1993 she graduated with Master of Fine Art in Sculpture from California State University at Fullerton.

Her public art experience includes indoor, outdoor, painted and fabricated murals, and sculptures. Working with governmental and private agencies she loves the challenges each brings.

Recently the statewide winner of the public art competition: Rosie Dog Beach in Long Beach was also selected to create artwork for the Gateway to Downey.

Karena Massengill is currently based in San Pedro, California.