Two PennDesigners Give Meyerson a Facelift
New Installation Invigorates Meyerson’s Façade
The University of Pennsylvania School of Design is pleased to announce a new installation on the façade of Meyerson Hall. With the support of Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor, Gregory Hurcomb (M.Arch ’10) and Nadine Kashlan (M.Arch ’09) have mounted their colorful and provocative project entitled “What to Do With Rubies That Fall From Heaven?” on the large windows surrounding the main entrance to Meyerson Hall facing the Fisher Fine Arts Library.
Hurcomb and Kashlan describe their work in vivid terms: “Accumulation. Vibration. Color. Excess. The body engulfed by a flood of images. Fractures, fragments, particles sped up and slowed. An entrance, a passageway, an exit: transfer, movement. Delayed arrivals, departures… through a wall of color, reflections, deflections, sounds of the spectrum. Pulsing light penetrates the transparency of a once solid glass field broken apart by color, shards of imagery, an aerie, stars born and destroyed – explosions, new textures of light and space.”
Assisting Hurcomb and Kashlan with this project were faculty liaisons Cathrine Veikos, Assistant Professor of Architecture, and David Comberg, Lecturer in Fine Arts; installation crew Minjoo Kweon, Matt Cianfrani, and Huiying Chan. Material and administrative support was provided by IT Project Leader Cathy DiBonaventura, Associate Dean Pat Woldar, and Fabrication Lab Manager Dennis Pierattini.
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