Sarah Morris, Robert Towne [Los Angeles], 2006. Architectural rendering of Sarah Morris' Robert Towne at Lever House, 2006. Courtesy the artist.
The Public Art Fund will present Sarah Morris Robert Towne at the Lever House starting on September 12 and running through December 3. Since the mid-1990s, Sarah Morris has been internationally renowned for her panoramic portraits of American metropolises, which take the form of both paintings and films. In the paintings, she uses colors and geometries that she associates with a city's unique vocabulary and palette, architecture and, most importantly, its character and energy. Robert Towne, a temporary installation at Lever House commissioned by the Public Art Fund, is Morris's expanded variation on an abstract canvas from her recent "Los Angeles" series (2005-06). Painted directly on the ground-level ceiling by a crew of sign painters, Robert Towne covers the entire 19,744-square-foot cross section of the building, encompassing both its indoor lobby and outdoor courtyard.