Intersections Art Projects

Past Projects

Allan deSouza: The World Series
June 23−October 30, 2011
The artist's multimedia work explores the relationship between individual experience and historical and ideological constructs. In his project for the Phillips, The World Series, deSouza responds to Jacob Lawrence's The Migration Series (1940−41) with 30 photographs taken on his travels around the world that capture the condition of people on the move.
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Nicholas and Sheila Pye: The Coronation
February 17−May 22, 2011
The Coronation is a three-channel video with sound, projected on three 52-inch plasma monitors. Wall-mounted and arranged like a triptych, the work alters the architecture of the gallery and establishes a visual dialogue with Georges Rouault's Tragic Landscape, 1930, from the permanent collection. The Coronation is a pictorial narrative, in which the Pyes, who are married and come from Canada, explore issues of gender and identity. In three separate scenes that unfold simultaneously and evoke panels in an altarpiece, the couple is shown in a series of physical transformations against an Edenic landscape, as they come together and separate.

Regi Müller: Flurries
April 1, 2010−May 15, 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.

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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Jae Ko: Force of Nature
September 30, 2010-February 20, 2011
Jae Ko's large, three-part installation, Force of Nature, created for the Phillips, is made from rolls of kraft paper, often used for wrapping and packing, that the artist re-rolled and stacked against the walls in different configurations. Envisioned specifically for the area connecting the Goh Annex and the Sant Building, one section of the installation fills the space between floor and ceiling, and then spills down the wall beside the stairs; two other stacks descend gradually, like gentle slopes or streams. Force of Nature dwells on both the beauty and power of natural forces within an architectural setting.

Ko works exclusively in paper. Experimenting with different kinds of paper (from rice paper to newspaper to adding-machine paper), she rolls, cuts, glues, soaks, and dyes it, manipulating her material into sculptural forms. Her sculptures encompass wall reliefs and floor pieces, made of large bundles of paper that are either stacked rigidly against the wall or fall naturally according to the whims of gravity. Ko finds inspiration in nature, and her forms readily evoke organic matter-tree rings, tornadoes, twisted hair, seeds.

Born in Korea, Ko lives and works in Washington, D.C. She received a BFA from Wako University, Tokyo, Japan, and an MFA. from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, and is in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Washington Convention Center, all in Washington, D.C. Ko's work is also currently on view at Marsha Mateyka Gallery.
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Tayo Heuser: Pulse
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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Kate Shepherd: Relation to and yet not (homage to Mondrian)
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 BA from Oberlin College in 1982 and an MFA 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.

Linn Meyers: at the time being
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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Barbara Liotta: Icarus
October 22, 2009-January 31, 2010
Conceived as a portrait of human energy and inner strength and as a symbol of flight and aspiration, this large-scale sculpture is made of strings and stones and suspended from the ceiling. Icarus is paired with portraits from the museum's permanent collection, including Eugène Delacroix's Paganini, Amedeo Modigliani's Elena Povolozky, and Chaim Soutine's Woman in Profile.
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Jennifer Wen Ma: Brain Storm
October 15, 2009-January 3, 2010
In this video projection with sound, a man and horse travel through a stormy landscape, suggesting an inner journey. The piece will be displayed in the Phillips house in conversation with artwork that evokes spatial or temporal travel, including landscapes by Paul Cézanne, Arthur Dove, and Wassily Kandinsky.Video stills from Brain Storm will be affixed to the glass walls of the walkway from the house to the Goh Annex, reiterating the notion of travel. Brain Storm was commissioned for Guggenheim Bilbao in 2009.