BNS - Ball-Nogues Studio

05/17/2026

Progress in Fort Worth. We’re here for another week or two.

05/16/2026

Fabrication for the Calexico project.

The work was shaped through a combination of digitally controlled tube rolling and a changing landscape of custom jigs, guides, and supports built in the shop.

I remain a reluctant fabrication geek, but there is something beautiful about the way old problems keep returning: some of the oldest methods in fabrication for holding, aligning, spacing, correcting—remain essential even as new tools allow increasingly complex geometries to be produced.

Many of the structures shown here existed only temporarily, disappearing once the next relationship could hold itself.

05/06/2026

05/01/2026

Before this work exists as a painting, it exists as a system.

For Riverside Park in Fort Worth, the project begins with the existing pecan trees. Each tree becomes the center point for a radial field applied to the park’s concrete paths. The trees locate the drawing. Stencils carry the system across the ground.

The concept comes from something usually hidden from view: trees have a life below the surface. Roots, soil, fungi, water, and mineral exchange form a living world beneath our feet. The artwork does not illustrate that world literally. Instead, it makes its energy visible as color, pattern, and field.

Each tree-centered field uses three slightly offset stencil layers, producing moiré-like effects where the radial lines overlap. Across the park, a nine-color palette shifts from warmer compositions near the southeast side of the site toward cooler compositions near the Trinity River.

The result will be a time-based mural underfoot — a drawing generated by the grove, activated by walking, and completed through movement.

Commissioned by Fort Worth Public Art.

03/03/2026

Airports stand as monuments to motion. At Charlotte Douglas International Airport, Weightless Monument spans the concourse as a 90-foot field of chain gathered into catenary curves—forms shaped by gravity rather than imposed rigid structure. Part of the Suspension Series, the work pursues monumentality through atmosphere instead of mass. Sweeping curves hover beneath the skylight, shifting with movement and light, dissolving into the visual noise of the terminal and reassembling from each new vantage point. In dialogue with the history of heroic modernist airport architecture and Eero Saarinen’s architecture of flight, the piece advances a lighter proposition—an optimism rendered not in concrete, but in air. It occupies transition itself, holding space within the relentless passage of travelers below.
Structural Engineering

02/25/2026

Marquee

By Benjamin Ball, fabricated and installed by Ball-Nogues Studio, 2025

Suspended above the entrance of Alloy by Carmel Partners at 525 / 530 South Santa Fe Avenue, Marquee reinterprets the language of the classic theater sign as a sculptural and optical experience. Composed of hundreds of clear and colored acrylic spheres, the work evokes the glowing bulbs of early 20th-century marquees yet operates in a different register—more sculpture than sign, more reverie than announcement. By day, sunlight passes through the suspended field, scattering kaleidoscopic color across the sidewalk, façade, and passersby. As the sun shifts, so does the chromatic patterning, creating an ever-changing play of reflection and hue. At night, light projected upward from the ground glances off the acrylic domes, producing a constellation of glints that hover above the street. Marquee transforms the threshold of the building into a quiet urban spectacle—an invitation to look up, and to reconsider illumination itself as both material and gesture.

Scouting shots by Joshua White. Engineering and

06/25/2025

Friday 6/27 | 3–6pm

Swing by for an open studio party and get a behind-the-scenes look at new work in progress—including a new public art installation in steel emerging from a sculpted landscape in

We’ll have models, materials, mock-ups, process, food from .la and a drink waiting for you.

11/26/2024

We’re thrilled to announce that we won The American Architecture Award for Display/Installation with our project “Pour Me Another!”
 
This site-specific commission at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art was an open-ended playscape that explored non-conventional uses of materials and incorporated studies in pourly constructed architecture. By experimenting with “the pour” technique, we layered tinted urethane foam to create vibrant, monumental structures with smooth, colorful interiors and textured exteriors, balancing control and spontaneity.
 
Thank you to everyone who supported this creative journey. This award is a celebration of experimentation, imagination, and the joy of building new worlds.
 

10/12/2024

Excited to be speaking at the University of Kentucky on October 14th for my lecture, Feathered Edge! Huge thanks to Jeffrey Johnson for the invitation. I’ll be sharing insights into my practice, discussing how my work at the intersection of public art and architecture.

I’m also thrilled to be working on a major public art project for 250Lex, Lexington’s 250th anniversary. This project will celebrate the city’s rich history while looking toward its future with a permanent installation downtown. More details to come!

📍 The Forum, Gray Design Building
🕓 Monday, October 14, 4PM

10/12/2024

I'm attending a day or two of this. Hit me up via IG DM or phone text

2024-10-16, Cincinnati, OH

05/18/2024

A new series of the pure paper Radiant Glob Lamps are going back into production. DM with pre-order inquiries.