Photo: © Steve Rosenthal

Here-There

• Date:1985
• Type:

  Installation

• Medium:

  Painted aluminum on atrium wall

• Size:

  five-story interior wall mural

• Credit:

  Commissioned with Percent-for-Art Funds

• Location:

  Wiesner Building (Bldg. E15), Atrium lobby.

Kenneth Noland was a well-known abstract Color Field painter, who, when asked to work with I. M. Pei on the Wiesner Building, had never executed an architectural commission. As a studio painter, his challenge was to grapple with architectural scale and three-dimensional space, and he worked closely with Pei to develop his ideas.   Here-There is a mural painted directly on the metal panels, with the colors announced on the building exterior and developed on the atrium interior walls. The colors suggest contrast and movement, creating a visual tension with the architectural space.

Of Related Interest:

• Reclining Figure (Working Model for Lincoln Center Sculpture)
• Wiesner Building (Bldg. E15)
• Courtyard
• Settee, Bench, and Balustrade
• Granite Bench