Catalogue: Lee Boroson

The eighth installment of the Opener series featured large-scale works by Brooklyn- based artist Lee Boroson. Since 1995, Boroson has been known for his room-filling, inflated sculptures made of sewn-nylon and kept aloft by electric blowers. These colorful enclosures find inspiration in both natural and man-made sources, and many respond to their specific installation sites. One such work, Integument, a buoyant piece designed for the Tang’s vestibule, implicitly compared an often-overlooked section of the building to a layer of skin. Pleasure Grounds, an inflated environment of lily pad-like forms, and Dewpoint, an accumulation of thousands of tiny glass spheres that form a hanging cloud, offered amalgams of the manufactured and the magical. Each of the works in Outer Limit commented playfully on “the space in-between”-the space in which our lives take place.
$19.95