Emerging Artist Creates Illuminated Landscape At Tribeca Issey Miyake [Pics]

For fashion purists, a piece by renowned Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake is already a work of art. Architectural, rich in texture, and often sparsely draped, the Miyake aesthetic is only enhanced by it’s placement within New York’s tribeca ISSEY MIYAKE outpost. Having opened in 2001, the store is currently in the process of celebrating its 10-year anniversary as the site for the Miyake US headquarters and flagship retail location, through the commissioning of some equally upscale installations. Featuring a titanium “intervention” or sculpture by Frank Gehry that winds its way through the space, tribeca ISSEY MIYAKE generally acts as a retail store, laboratory, and atelier; but also as a place for new or emerging artistic talent to be showcased.

The most recent addition is Uros, a series of light sculptures by Grimanesa Amoros made from LED nodes, diffusion material, vinyl, and a custom light sequence. An homage to the floating Uros Islands of Lake Titicaca in Puno, Peru, these in-store piece are hand-made with totora reeds by the indigenous Uros. The result is a 3 dimensional illuminated landscape, which will give night-time visitors the feeling of being on a very distant, very chic planet.

Amoros, whose multi-level work has exhibited internationally in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, and is the recipient of several grants–including the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship, The Travel Grant Fund for Artists, NEA Arts International, and The Bronx Museum for the Arts: Aim Program (among others)–has been slowly building her following in the art world through the creation of thought-provoking sculpture, video, and lighting pieces which illuminate traditionally held notions of personal vs. community identity.

The installation will be on view December 15 and through January 14th, 2012.

Grimanesa Amoros

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