A monumental sculpture by Pop icon, Roy Lichtenstein, can be seen closer to home these days. An edition of “Tokyo Brushstroke I & II”, commissioned for a public space in Tokyo in 1994, has been sited at the Parrish Art Museum (http://parrishart.org/) in Water Mill, NY (Long Island). It is the first long-term outdoor installation at the Parrish’s new Herzog & de Meuron-designed building (http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/portfolio/2013/01/Parrish-Art-Museum-Herzog-and-de-Meuron.asp). The sculpture has been sited placed on the front lawn. The sculpture, on loan by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, consists of four bold brushstrokes in primary colors and Ben-Day dots. Made of painted and fabricated aluminum, the sculpture is part of a series of brushstroke sculptures constructed by Lichtenstein in the 1980s and 90s. Lichtenstein said this work, “is a symbol of something it isn’t and that is part of the irony I’m interested in.” Irony was fundamental to Roy’s practice, and here, as he grandly salutes painting, he turns a typically 2-dimensional object into 3 dimensions. Hope you get to see this, and other brushstroke sculptures, and paintings! There is one at UMASS Boston, and others worldwide ~
