5 Bryant Park

5 Bryant Park | New York, NY

Five Bryant Park (aka 1065 Sixth Avenue) sits at the prestigious intersection of West 40th Street and Sixth Avenue, across the street from the southwest corner of Bryant Park. It features entries on West 41st and West 40th Streets. The entrance on 41st opens onto a 63-foot hallway, while 40th features a more conventional commercial lobby offering 13-foot ceilings and several surfaces for art placement. Aside from being aesthetically pleasing, the exhibition needed to meet several requirements: In the hallway on 41st, the goal was to create visual interest in a long corridor while still encouraging visitors to keep walking…

1140 Avenue of the Americas: Louise Foo & Martha Skou

1140 Avenue of the Americas | New York, NY

This site-specific installation, titled Chopin Reflections, is built with thousands of tiny wooden cubes affixed to a canvas, with each cube representing a piece of sound information. The arrangement of the wooden blocks comes from sections of classical compositions that are notated with a note vs. time logic. The composition has been further deconstructed through vertical and horizontal mirroring. Chopin Reflections is one piece from a body of work entitled Format No 1 that explores a new format and consists of a series of installations, a limited edition print, and a software application. The software consists of a free mobile…

229 West 43rd Street

229 West 43rd Street | New York, NY

229 West 43rd Street, formerly known as The New York Times Building, is an 18-story office building. It was the headquarters of The New York Times from 1913 through 2007. ‪Now home to now Yahoo! and Snapchat, Art Assets‬ developed a technologically-focused ‪‎art‬ ‪program‬ for the lobby. About the Artist Anne Morgan Spalter is an artist and author whose career reflects her longstanding goal of integrating art and technology. Spalter’s Movements is a new video work based on footage shot from a helicopter over NYC. “Movements” within the work include different patterning strategies that resemble a kaleidoscope, and feature locations…

1140 Avenue of the Americas: Silvio Wolf

1140 Avenue of the Americas | New York, NY

Located in Midtown Manhattan between Bryant Park and Rockefeller Center, 1140 Avenue of the Americas is a prestigious office building with corporate tenants of numerous industries. The inviting lobby is a light, airy space featuring off-white marble walls and floor with unique angular columns that reach from the left wall to continue onto the ceiling. The wall behind the security desk is in . The 15.5′ x 18′ security desk, backed by undulating silver metal grating, serves as an attractive, modern backdrop perfect for large, colorful art pieces. Additionally, the lobby benefits from both excellent natural light and thoughtful electric…

717 Fifth Avenue: David Row

717 Fifth Avenue | New York, NY

717 Fifth Avenue is a prestigious address in the Midtown East neighborhood of Manhattan, at the cross street of East 56th Street. Known as The Corning Glass Building/Steuben Glass Building, 717 Fifth was designed by Harrison & Abramovitz, who also designed Lincoln Center and the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library Building. A highly innovative approach for its time, 717 was the first glass curtain wall skyscraper on Fifth Avenue. In 1959, a gold-leaf mural by Bauhaus artist Josef Albers, Two Structural Constellations, was engraved in the lobby of the building. Between 1993 and 1994, the firm Gwathmey Siegel Architects renovated…

1065 Avenue of the Americas

1065 Avenue of the Americas | New York, NY

About the Artist John Mendelsohn is an abstract painter based in New York City. His works are connected to and inspired by a wide patchwork of sources as diverse as the Sufi poet Rumi, minimalist music, ikat and other traditional textiles, digital images, a deep knowledge of the rich tradition of abstract painting, and computer scientist Stephen Wolfram’s discovery of simple, reiterated procedures that yield complex and unpredictable results. Visually, Mendelsohn’s works are built by repeating the same pattern over and over again, rendered in a specific combination of hues. They become visual fields in perpetual flux: images that are…