Trendspotting: Room Art

Three art installations in New York City this fall make me think of the phrase "Room Art." I don't think such a type exists, but it seems like an interesting coincidence that each artist is constructing a room as a canvas and then immersing the visitor (a more accurate term in this case then viewer) into the space for effect. Respectively, the below examples are an elevated room that gets visitors close to a sculpture usually out of reach, set within a fairly tacky-looking mock apartment; a disorienting, plywood-lined space squeezed into a Chelsea gallery; and a simulated Rikers Island jail cell.<br /><br />Tatzu Nishi's <a href="http://www.publicartfund.org/view/exhibitions/5495_discovering_columbus"><i>Discovering Columbus</i></a> at Columbus Circle until November 18:<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/roccocell/8011037688/" title="COLUMBUS CIRCLE | TATZU NISHI - DISCOVERING COLUMBUS by roccocell, on Flickr"><img alt="COLUMBUS CIRCLE | TATZU NISHI - DISCOVERING COLUMBUS" height="424" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8457/8011037688_302c085eb8_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />[Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/roccocell/">Roccocell</a> via the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/archi-dose/pool/">archidose flickr pool</a>] <br /><br />Julian Hoeber's <i>Demon Hill #2</i> at <a href="http://www.harrislieberman.com/exhibition/2551/Julian-Hoeber">Harris Lieberman</a> until October 20:<br /><img alt="art-room2.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/art-room2.jpg" title="Julian Hoeber's Demon Hill #2" /><br />[Photo via <a href="http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670888/a-crazy-tilting-box-that-tricks-your-inner-ear#1">Co.Design</a>] <br /><br />Artist <a href="http://www.jessicafeldman.org/">Jessica Feldman</a>'s (with designer Steven Gertner) <i>The Glass Sea</i> at Lieutenant Petrosino Park from October 25 to November 25:<br /><img alt="art-room3.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/art-room3.jpg" title="Julian Hoeber's Demon Hill #2" /><br />[Photo: Jessica Feldman and Steven Gertner, via <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20121005/soho/prison-cell-replica-is-latest-public-art-headed-soho">DNAinfo</a>]

Trendspotting: Room Art

Three art installations in New York City this fall make me think of the phrase "Room Art." I don't think such a type exists, b...

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