Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority

About the Artist

Lynn Goodpasture designs, fabricates and installs site-specific art for national and international clients, working closely with architects and clients on her numerous commissions. Her public art projects are executed in a variety of materials, including mosaic, slumped and painted glass, and metal. The artist has created a number of public art "Clocks", including two locally at the Glendale Transportation Center and the Center for Early Education in West Hollywood. She is currently exploring the integration of solar technology and glass art.

Lynn was selected by the city of Azusa’s Station Design and Art Review (SDAR) Committee, later ratified by the city council, in 2005. In 2005-6, she worked with the SDAR Committee and Azusa community to advance the design and art concept for the station, and in November 2006 the city council approved the final art concept.*

Artist Concept

Right, future Azusa-Citrus station bench designs

Honoring the proud and unique history of the land surrounding the Azusa-Citrus station, Lynn plans to feature the California Fan Palm and various indigenous trees and flowers in her design, providing an important connection to the city's past and present. At the entrance to the platform, she will create a welcome shelter in the form of a California Fan Palm gazebo. The structure of sand cast aluminum or plasma cut steel will be a portal for all passengers, providing shelter from the sun near the ticket vending area.

In addition, a number of pre-cast stone benches decorated with colorful hand-painted tile surfaces will enhance the platform. Similar in style to the historic Malibu tiles, each bench will evoke an important plant associated with the community, including Wild Hyacinth, Sycamore, Gardenia and Oranges.

The design elements chosen for this station, link the area's rich history - beginning with Henry Dalton's importation of oranges in 1867, the citrus groves of the successful Azusa Foothill Citrus Company, and on to the innovative breakthroughs of the Monrovia Nursery - as a place of flowering fecundity.

*The Construction Authority would like to thank the following members of the Azusa Station Design and Art Review (SDAR) Committee for their participation in the selection process: Mr. Jeffrey Cornejo, Mr. Chris Dodson, Mr. Joe Hsu, Mr. Guy Kinnear, Ms. Jennifer Kinnear, Mr. Bill Nakasone, Mr. Mark Scott, and Ms. Blanch Weir.