
Color Block No. 2 is a forthcoming installation at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio.
Beginning in August 2023, the first phase includes the large-scale project Drawing Field, which will utilize a GPS-controlled robot to paint intricate, line-based patterns on the Wex plaza lawn to sketch a temporary space for gathering. Visitors are welcome to observe and inhabit the graphic work throughout the process. Inherently ephemeral, the patterns disappear over time with growth, rain, and sun.
A subsequent installation, Color Block No. 2, involves an incremental and mobile installation of large-scale furniture. The roving environment will activate in-between spaces both inside and outside the Wexner Center to conceptually and physically challenge institutional boundaries. Museums often impose divisions between gallery spaces and public areas that foreground the institution’s architecture. This division is uniquely blurred in the Wexner Center's Peter Eisenman–designed building (1989), where exhibition spaces and architectural features radically converge. Extending these characteristics that made the Wexner Center a milestone in postmodern architecture, Color Block No. 2 will provide new spaces for collaboration, socializing, and informal learning, drawing visitors’ attention from outside to inside the building.