Intersections Art Projects

Intersections

Intersections is a new series of contemporary art projects that explores-as the title suggests-the intriguing intersections between old and new traditions, modern and contemporary art practices, and museum spaces and artistic interventions. Whether engaging with the permanent collection or diverse spaces in the museum, the projects suggest new relationships with their own surprises.

Many of the projects also riff on the nontraditional nature of the museum's galleries, sometimes activating spaces that are not typical exhibition areas with art produced specifically for those locations.

Current Projects:

Pulse, Tayo Heuser
November 19, 2009-October 31, 2010
Tayo Heuser translates the luminosity of Mark Rothko's paintings into three dimensions with large-scale wall-mounted sculptures of glowing, colored forms drawn in ink, designed to rise along the spiral flow of the Goh Annex stairwell. The work was created in response to both the architecture of the stairwell and the paintings in the museum's Rothko Room.
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at the time being, Linn Meyers
February 11-August 22, 2010
Meyers explores two-dimensional space in an exquisitely detailed wall drawing composed of thin, tremulous lines. The drifting whirls of at the time being, drawn around an archway in the Goh Annex, move toward each other, meeting above the arch and creating optical vibrations. The color, movement, and energy of the drawing relate to the brushwork and colors of Vincent van Gogh's The Road Menders (1889), a painting in the collection.
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Regi Müller
Through May 2011
Flurries is composed of small, sculptural pieces randomly mounted on the windows and walls of the Vradenburg Café. Cast in urethane, a clear synthetic material, in the shape of "cap"-in mathematics, the area of a sphere above or below a given plane-the pieces are arranged in the space to induce a visual progression from order to disorder. Of the same volume and tint yet of different depths and sizes, the caps are translucent objects reflecting their backgrounds: the ones on the walls suggest a constellation of stars, while those on the windows provide a view of the outside world in reverse.

System and chance, regular and irregular, intuition and preconception work here in tandem, creating a spatial configuration off and on balance. Like flurries falling down sporadically and then swiftly, the caps too come across first as tidy and then unruly as they disperse in erratic patterns. Regi Müller's entire work is about maintaining balance between chaos and order. Whether through printmaking or sculpture, she plays with various geometric forms and patterns, placing them at random on paper and wall. While in her earlier work she used a grid and dice to achieve the desired randomness, more recently, including here, she applies computer technology and digital methods to realize the final design.

Müller was born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and recently lives and works in New York City. She was trained as a textile designer. She is the winner of numerous awards and honors and has exhibited in her native Switzerland and the United States, including at the Kunsthaus in Zurich, Kunsthalle in St. Gallen, and, the Wilmer Jennings Gallery in New York City.
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Relation to and yet not (homage to Mondrian), Kate Shepherd
June 10-September 5, 2010
Kate Shepherd is best known for large, vertical, mostly monochrome paintings in hi-gloss enamel on wooden panels. Using intense colors, delicate lines, and multiple perspectives, she suggests structures and patterns—wallpaper, steps, stones, lace—that create illusory three-dimensional space. Her work in the former dining room of the Phillips house incorporates painting and sculpture, and focuses on architectural details, while paying homage to Mondrian's work in the permanent collection.

Kate Shepherd lives and works in New York City. She earned a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1982 and an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in 1992. She has had numerous solo exhibitions in the U.S and abroad and has been awarded residencies at the Chinati and Lannan Foundations. Her work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, among others.