Miller Theatre and The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University will unveil a new site-specific work in the Miller Theatre lobby: VECTOR COMPOSITION NO. 1 by Brooklyn-based artist Vargas-Suarez Universal.
The first collaboration between The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery and Miller Theatre, the temporary exhibition will be on view throughout Miller's 25th Anniversary Season, October 10, 2013 through May 31, 2014. Miller Theatre is located at 2960 Broadway at 116th Street, NYC.
From Miller Theatre Executive Director Melissa Smey:
"As one of the University's only public entrances on Broadway, Miller Theatre's lobby is a uniquely visible public space on the Columbia campus. I couldn't be more delighted to be working with Deborah Cullen, the Wallach Gallery's director and curator, to animate the space and publicly affirm the University's commitment to the arts by installing Rafael Vargas-Suarez's new work here. It's a collaboration I've wanted to bring to fruition for a number of years, and I'm so happy that it's happening this season, for our 25th Anniversary. I hope it will be the first of many."
Brooklyn-based artist Rafael Vargas-Suarez-known as Vargas-Suarez Universal-will transform the Miller Theatre lobby into an immersive artwork, with abstract geometric marks suggestive of notes on a musician's staff paper.
Vector Composition No. 1 will be unveiled in the Miller Theater lobby on October 10, 2013, the same night as the opening concert of the theater's acclaimed new-music series Composer Portraits, featuring Georg Friedrich Haas. It will mark the first collaboration between Columbia's two major artistic presenting spaces, The Wallach Art Gallery and Miller Theatre. The site-specific wall drawing will be on view throughout the theater's 25th anniversary season, greeting thousands of concertgoers as they arrive for performances over the course of the year. In Vargas-Suarez's own words: "The point of departure for this piece is my constant observation of the public's commentary that my wall drawings, paintings and overall aesthetic looks 'musical.' I find this opinion quite accurate since I almost exclusively draw and paint while listening to music. I pace myself to the rhythm of songs from classical to progressive and experimental musical artists from one artwork to another."Columbia University's Miller Theatre is located north of the Main Campus Gate at 116th St. & Broadway on the ground floor of Dodge Hall. Directions and information is available online at www.millertheatre.com or via the Miller Theatre Box Office, at 212.854.7799.
Pictured: Sketch for Vector Composition No. 1 (Wall Drawing Compositions), Miller Theater at Columbia University, Organized by the Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York.Videos