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Richard Artschwager: blips
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Sculpture
Venue: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
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Richard Artschwager’s unique ovular forms were prevalent in the late 1970s and 1980s. The artist placed them in various locations around New York City, including subway platforms and smokestacks. His intention was to bring the public’s attention to surfaces and structures that usually go unnoticed. Installed throughout the hallways and stairwells of P.S.1, they highlight the building’s architecture and reference the way in which visitors move through the space.
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Richard Artschwager: Exit-Don’t fight City Hall
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Installation
Venue: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
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Richard Artschwager's site-specific installation was completed in 1976 as part of P.S.1’s inaugural exhibition Rooms. By painting the word “Exit” on each of the five bulbs illuminating the corridor, the artist brings new meaning to ubiquitous signage, and also brings to attention the importance of a non-neutral exhibition space.
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Cecily Brown: Untitled
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Installation
Venue: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
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Cecily Brown created Untitled for the 1997 group exhibition Vertical Paintings.
Untitled is located in Staircase B.
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Ernesto Caivano: In the Woods
-- Arts - Installation, Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
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For P.S.1’s stairwell A, Ernesto Caivano created a wall mural based on an ongoing story he developed over three years called After the Woods. While After the Woods consists of drawings and paper sculptures, In the Woods is composed of black latex paint and gouache to create a dense visual web of images composing Caivano’s larger-than-life sized environment. The exaggerated scale of the piece creates a total experience for the viewer, allowing an escape into this imaginary world. Naked and gnarled tree branches wind around the walls and sprout up and out onto the ceiling, entangling the viewer in their dark and magical embrace.
Ernesto Caivano's In the Woods is located in Stairwell A.
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William Kentridge: Stair Procession
-- Arts - Installation, Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
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This site-specific installation was curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev as part of P.S.1’s Vertical Painting series initiated by Alanna Heiss in 1997. Created for P.S.1’s northwest stairwell, Stair Procession is a white-on-black drawing similar to white chalk graffiti. The constricted nature of the staircase played a role in the artist's decision to use anamorphic distortions. Kentridge evokes the building’s original function as a public school in establishing both the subject matter and method.
William Kentridge's Stair Procession is located in Staircase B.
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Sol LeWitt: Crayola Square
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Installation
Venue: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
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In an attempt to explore the history of Sol LeWitt’s public projects and to record his long-lasting relationship with P.S.1, the artist created Crayola Square, a Crayola crayon wall drawing originally created in 1971 at an event organized by P.S.1 founder and director Alanna Heiss. It was the inaugural exhibition for The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, known today as P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.
Sol LeWitt's Crayola Square is located on cinderblock in the Basement Boiler Room.
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Matt Mullican: Untitled
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Installation
Venue: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
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Renowned for his immense banners, posters and oil stick rubbings, Matt Mullican draws from a personal source of forms and symbols to create his utopian city views. His sign-like works are reflections of the familiar pictograms that one would find in the halls of an airport or a train station. For P.S.1, the artist has installed five steel flagstones into the floor of the boiler room. The shape of the artist’s stones reflect the form of the unused flagstones already a part of the boiler room.
Untitled is located in the Basement Boiler Room.
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Eric Orr
-- Arts - Installation, Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
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Eric Orr was an artist whose works center on natural phenomena. He was one of the pioneers of the California Light and Space movement in the late 1960s. This work was created for P.S.1’s 1997 building renovation.
Eric Orr's work is comprised of three slits in the Courtyard's concrete wall.
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Pipilotti Rist: Selbstlos im Lavabad (Selfless in the Bath of Lava)
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Installation
Venue: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
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Selbstlos im Lavabad is comprised of a small video embedded in a hole on the floor. In the video, the artist swims nude in an incandescent lava bath and cries out “I am a worm and you are a flower!” This video was first exhibited in Basel, Switzerland in 1994. In a later exhibition in Zürich, Switzerland, the video was placed at the foot of a Madonna and Child sculpture emphasizing the religious notion of damnation as suggested by the video.
Selbstlos im Lavabad is located in the Lobby floorboards.
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Alexis Rockman: Untitled
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Installation
Venue: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
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Alexis Rockman's Untitled was created for the 1997 group show Vertical Paintings. It is part of a series of magical animals rendered in gouache.
Untitled is located in Staircase B.
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Alan Saret: Brick Wall and Sun
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Installation, Arts - Sculpture
Venue: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
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In all of his work, Alan Saret shows great interest in using mutable material to create non-static sculptures. As he stated: “The flexure of each material draws a line in space which corresponds identically to its physical properties. Nature, therefore, draws the final line in the art.” In Brick Wall and Sun, sunlight is the natural medium that influences the general shape of the sculpture. As part of P.S.1’s initial exhibition Rooms, this site-specific installation consists of a carefully sized and shaped hole dug out of the brick wall. When the sunlight faces the exterior side of the building, a focused stream light enters the hallway and shines down to the floor.
Alan Saret's Brick Wall and Sun is located on the Third floor at the eastern end of the north wing.
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Keith Sonnier: Tunnel of Tears
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Installation, Arts - Architecture/Design
Venue: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
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A minimalist artist, Keith Sonnier is known for his use of neon lights in architectural contexts. His Tunnel of Tears was installed for the reopening of P.S.1 in 1997. The artist uses two fluorescent light fixtures, one blue and one pink, to form a series of neon loops. The individual fixtures are positioned at two different heights along the walls of the chimney. Like much of his work, Sonnier considers the architecture of the exhibition’s location in order to change our perception of the space.
Keith Sonnier's Tunnel of Tears is in the foyer of the lobby.
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James Turrell: Meeting
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Installation
Venue: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
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One of the highlights of P.S.1, this site-specific installation has been at P.S.1 since the fall of 1986. It was initially part of a series commissioned by Alanna Heiss focusing on light and perception. Meeting is composed of a square room with a rectangular opening cut directly into the ceiling. Carefully calculated artificial lights produce an orange glow on the white walls of the room, permitting the viewer to appreciate the intensity of the sky’s color.
As Turrell described it: “There’s this four-square seating that’s inside, seating toward each other, having a space that created some silence, allowing something to develop slowly over time, particularly at sunset. Also, this Meeting has to do with the meeting of space that you’re in with the meeting of the space of the sky.” Meeting is one of Turrell’s series of “skyspaces,” all involving enclosed spaces with rectangular or rounded holes cut into the ceiling exposing the open sky.
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Lawrence Weiner: A bit of matter and a little bit more
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Installation
Venue: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
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Originally part of exhibition Rooms in 1976, Lawrence Weiner wrote the title phrase on the inside of the front entrance as well as on the outside of the back door of P.S.1. The original doors, made of wood and metal, were removed during the renovation in 1997. After the renovation was completed, the artist was invited back to recreate the piece on both sides of the glass windows of the front doors.
Lawrence Weiner's A bit of matter and a little bit more is located on the front door.
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