ONGOING
The Shed’s first visual art commission: a large-scale, site-specific work by one of the world’s most influential artists, Lawrence Weiner
About this commission
A Shed Commission
The Shed’s first visual art commission is IN FRONT OF ITSELF, a large-scale, site-specific work by one of the world’s most influential artists, Lawrence Weiner. Fabricated with custom paving stones embedded in the building’s plaza—a dynamic area that serves as a walkable outdoor space when the movable shell is nested or as the base of its largest program space, The McCourt, when the shell is extended to the east—the 20,000-square-foot work features the phrase IN FRONT OF ITSELF in twelve-foot-high letters.
Creative Team
Photo: Maria Sprowls. Courtesy Moved Pictures Archive and the artist.
Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner
Artist
Born February 10, 1942, in the Bronx, New York, Lawrence Weiner attended the New York public school system. He spent the late 1950s and early 1960s traveling throughout North America (the United States, Mexico, and Canada). The first presentation of his work was in Mill Valley, California in 1960. Weiner divided his time between his studio in New York City and his boat in Amsterdam. He participated in public and private projects and exhibitions in both the new and old world, maintaining that art is the empirical fact of the relationships of objects to objects in relation to human beings and not dependent upon historical precedent for either use or legitimacy. He passed away December 2, 2021.
Location
In The Works