Photo credit:Richard Woods Port Sunlight, 2009 Lever House, New York, New YorkDecember 3, 2009 – January 31, 2010 Image courtesy of the artist and Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York.© Richard Woods
Perry Rubenstein Gallery announces Richard Woods’ Port Sunlight at the Lever House in New York, commissioned by the Lever House Art Collection. For the exhibition, Woods has created a total of nine new patterns that will temporarily clad portions of the Lever House lobby and outdoor area, transforming the modernist landmark with a multitude of patterns and high intensity colors. Each pattern rendered is a set of print blocks that are used to create the panels that will cover sections of the Lever House and its grounds, including all forty of the structural steel columns, and eight Noguchi benches in the pedestrian area around the building’s perimeter. Woods has also created two large floor pieces printed on aluminum and laid directly onto the Lever House lobby floor, a departure for the artist. Known for meshing art and design, history and humor, highbrow aesthetics with pop culture, Woods’ site-specific projects use basic materials (wood, household paint) to create vividly different graphic surroundings.
For more information about Richard Woods visit:
www.perryrubenstein.com
