NYAB Event - “Frank Gehry at work” Exhibition

“Frank Gehry at work” Exhibition

Leslie Feely Fine Art

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A selection of Frank Gehry process models will be on display at Leslie Feely Fine Art, drawn from significant constructions and concepts of the architect’s prolific career.

This exhibition presents over 30 diverse process models from 1985-‐2012, comprising a wide array of materials and approaches that begin to illuminate the subtleties of Gehry’s thought—and working—process. Projects on view include the California Aerospace Museum and Theater (1984), the Winton Guest House (1987), the Chiat/Day Building (1991), the Barcelona Fish or El Peix completed for the 1992 Summer Olympics, and the Beekman Tower/New York by Gehry at 8 Spruce Street (2011). Photographic reproductions of his studio, the architect at work, and certain realized projects accompany models that demonstrate Gehry’s exploratory, playful practice, and ultimately present a study of the architect himself.

This is Frank Gehry’s second exhibition at Leslie Feely Fine Art, which also held his first ever gallery show in 2007 and featured his models at Art Basel Miami Beach 2011. Solo museum exhibitions including his process models have been presented by ArtisTree, Taikoo Place, Hong Kong, 2011; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2008; New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2001; the Triennale Design Museum, Milan, 1997; and the Walker Center, Minneapolis, which organized a major retrospective of Gehry’s work in 1986. Gehry is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, Americans for the Arts (2000), the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal (1999), the National Medal of the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts (1998), and the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1989). The architect graduated from the University of Southern California in 1954 and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 1956. Frank Gehry lives and works in Santa Monica, California.

[Image: Monaco Urbanisation En Mer project model, 2007. Plexi, mylar, and gatorboard. 24 x 16.5 x 24 in. Courtesy of the artist and Leslie Feely Fine Art, LLC. Photo credit: Gehry Partners]