Opener 8 Lee Boroson: Outer Limit - Tang Teaching Museum

Installation view, Lee Boroson: Outer Limit, Tang Teaching Museum, 2005

Installation view of Lucky Storm 2, 2004-2005, in Lee Boroson: Outer Limit, Tang Teaching Museum, 2005

Installation view of Integument (detail), 2004, in Lee Boroson: Outer Limit, Tang Teaching Museum, 2005

Installation view of Trim, 2005, in Lee Boroson: Outer Limit, Tang Teaching Museum, 2005

Installation view of Pleasure Grounds 4, 2005, in Lee Boroson: Outer Limit, Tang Teaching Museum, 2005

Installation view of Star Swarm, 2005, in Lee Boroson: Outer Limit, Tang Teaching Museum, 2005

Installation view of Outer Limit, 2005, in Lee Boroson: Outer Limit, Tang Teaching Museum, 2005

Installation view of Lucky Storm 2 (detail), 2004-2005, in Lee Boroson: Outer Limit, Tang Teaching Museum, 2005

The eighth installment of the Opener series featured seven 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 formed a hanging cloud, offered amalgams of the manufactured and the magical, while Lucky Storm (2) transformed the Tang’s gallery space with streaming sunbeams of fine nylon threads.

Other works in the exhibition grew from the microscopic to the macrocosmic, such as a meticulously manipulated twelve-foot square photograph that attempts to picture the visible night sky with all of its black space removed. Each of the works in Outer Limit commented playfully on “the space in-between”—the space in which our lives take place.

Lee Boroson: Outer Limit is organized by Ian Berry, Susan Rabinowitz Malloy ’45 Curator, Tang Museum, in collaboration with the artist, Lee Boroson.

The Opener series is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, The Laurie Tisch Sussman Foundation, The Overbrook Foundation, and the Friends of the Tang.

Exhibition Name

Opener 8
Lee Boroson: Outer Limit

Exhibition Type

Opener Series

Solo Exhibitions

Place

Malloy Wing

Dates

Feb 5, 2005 - Jun 5, 2005

Curators

Lee Boroson: Outer Limit is organized by Ian Berry, Susan Rabinowitz Malloy ’45 Curator, Tang Museum, in collaboration with the artist, Lee Boroson.

Artists

Lee Boroson

Publisher

Tang

Cover Type

Hardcover

Page Count

Year Published

2005

Past Exhibitions 2005

Opener 8Lee Boroson: Outer Limit