![]() ![]() Kelley Remole, managing director, Wu Tsai Institute It’s a place where people want to gather, and where they feel like they can linger. It’s a signal to anyone passing through that this space is lively and loved and active. The piece Hogan and his team of artists were installing that day, “Wall Drawing #1081,” anchors a large collaborative space at the heart of the institute’s new state-of-the-art home - a space optimized for cutting-edge research and intellectual collision. ![]() (They also include instructions for mixing each color, specifying a ratio of paint, medium, and distilled water to produce a consistency “similar to the viscosity of cream.”) “It’s the traditional waiting-for-paint-to-dry moment,” explained John Hogan, the Mary Jo and Ted Shen Installation Director and Archivist for Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG). ![]() The YUAG collections include more than 60 of LeWitt’s wall drawings, which exist as diagrams and instructions for installation, “even down to the hardness of the pencil we use to draw,” said Hogan. “It’s the traditional waiting-for-paint-to-dry moment,” explained John Hogan, the Mary Jo and Ted Shen Installation Director and Archivist for Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG), who was overseeing the installation. Perched on paint buckets, the crew of artists responsible for this installation of Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing #1081” were talking quietly all were wearing the hardhats and fluorescent vests required in a still-active construction site. Vivid planes of color - green, blue, red, orange, yellow, and purple - stretched along a 49-foot-long wall, their edges masked by kraft paper. A work of art was taking shape one late spring afternoon on the 11 th floor of 100 College Street, soon to be home to Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute. ![]()
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