A 30-foot-long steel sculpture by Santa Monica...

A 30-foot-long steel sculpture by Santa Monica artist Guy Dill will be installed this spring and will remain on display for a 1-year period in the sculpture garden at the Art Institute of Southern California.

Initially scheduled to be on view in time for Thursday night’s fund-raising event at the Laguna Beach school, the piece--”Colleccion de los Espejos Abstractos” (Abstract Mirrors Series)--is the subject of site-related negotiations. Dill has chosen a site that partially impinges on land owned by the state and would require permission from the California Department of Transportation. Caltrans has been notified of this possibility but has not yet responded, according to a museum official.

“The deal is closed as far as us getting the sculpture,” Suzanne Ellis, a development assistant at the Art Institute said Thursday. “It’s just a matter of time. We have not made a final decision as to the exact site . . . a lot of (the delay) involves insurance (matters).”