Projects include designing cheerful interiors for Sheffield Children's Hospital, and a colour and letter -
filled architectural installation for London's Southbank Centre.
Not exact matches
There were a few arresting
installations, nonetheless, such as Danh Vo's floating gilded cardboard segments that comment on moral transgressions, for which the Marian Goodman gallery eliminated its walls; Liu Wei's
architectural Library at Lehmann Maupin that collapses a metropolis to outrageous effect and, among the young artists who showed gripping promise, Aki Sasamoto's Luncheon Field, which livened the Focus section with a table perforated to suspend forks that bobbed in the breeze of a fan, and Eddie Peake's rumination on past and future that
filled the Lorcan O'Neill booth with a tinted Plexiglas and steel
installation involving a bear, a robot and lost Atlantis viewed through a meandering cut - out.
These possibilities included engaging the floor, ceiling and corners of the exhibition space; taking advantage of
architectural features such as doorways and moldings; fencing off segments of the exhibition space with «barriers» of light; and, by the time of his 1969 retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada, developing special
installations, or «situations,» consisting of specially constructed
architectural spaces containing room -
filling light.
Even Antoine's Organ — likely the standout piece with an occasional live performance by jazz pianist Antoine Baldwin inside the
installation's structure — is just a larger version of Johnson's plant and shea butter bust -
filled, fluorescent - lit
architectural grids.
Anchoring these bodies of work are three unique
architectural installations: a window from the artist's studio installed in an exterior wall facing the street, replete with a plant -
filled windowsill and the radiator supporting it; a dividing wall from the studio with clerestory windows, installed free - standing in the middle of the gallery; and her own work table, relocated from her studio in Berlin and placed at the entrance to the gallery.
Guyton's works are often deployed in dramatic
architectural installations; drawings
fill dozens of vitrines and multi-panel paintings stretch fifty feet wide or more than twenty feet high.