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Jorge Pardo: Untitled (2001) |
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Jorge Pardo was born in Cuba in 1963, and came to the US in 1969. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles in a house he designed himself that was realized as part of a major exhibition of his work at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Over the past ten years he has exhibited widely in major museums internationally, and has completed several permanent commissions, primarily in Europe. In 2001 he was awarded the prestigious Lucelia Artist Award in recognition of exceptional creativity by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. |
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Pardo was selected to design a work for the new 224 Albany Street dormitory by a committee which included the dormitory housemaster, the renovation architects, graduate students, and MIT Facilities project staff. The similarity of this space to others with which he had worked, his embrace of functional building materials and design elements such as lighting, and his strong color sense all suggested he would be able to transform the public lobby space and give it a special character. He designed a vibrantly-hued ceiling, which has been silkscreened by Jo Watanabe Studio, Brooklyn, NY. onto the acoustic tiles and hand-painted onto the metal hanging system. |
