Alexis Rockman
Untitled
1997
Location: Staircase B
Acrylic and oil on paper
Created for the 1997 group show Vertical Paintings Part of Alphabet, a gouache series of magical animals.


Cecily Brown
Untitled
1997
Location: Staircase B
House paint, oil, gouache, spray paint, pencil, marker, pen
Created for the 1997 group show Vertical Paintings.


Basement

Matt Mullican
Untitled
1997
Location: Steel inset in basement floor
Renowned for his immense banners, posters and oil stick rubbings, Matt Mullican draws from a personal source of forms and symbols to create his utopian city views. His sign-like works are reflections of the familiar pictograms that one would find in the halls of an airport or a train station. For P.S.1, the artist has installed five steel flagstones into the floor of the boiler room. The shape of the artist's stones reflect the form of the unused flagstones already a part of the boiler room.


Sol LeWitt
Crayola Square
1999
Location: Crayon on cinderblock in basement floor
In an attempt to explore the history of LeWitt's public projects and to record his long-lasting relationship with P.S.1, the artist created Crayola Square, a Crayola crayon wall drawing originally created in 1971 at an event organized by P.S.1 founder and director Alanna Heiss. It was the inaugural exhibition for The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, known today as P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.


Courtyard

Eric Orr
1997
Location: Three slits in the courtyard's concrete wall
Eric Orr was an artist whose works center on natural phenomena. He was one of the pioneers of the California Light and Space movement in the late 1960s. This work was created for P.S.1's 1997 building renovation.