Grimanesa Amorós

As part of its 40th year anniversary season, BRIC commissioned HEDERA, a monumental light installation, to be installed in Prospect Park, New York. Amorós has created a custom lighting sequence of flowing and pulsating red and white tubing that crowns the sculpture in light. LED tubes will both cover the structure and create an immersive environment for viewers who will freely walk underneath and around the work. Viewers who venture into the center of HEDERA will see their own reflection in the cupola above. At the nucleus of HEDERA, visitors will see smaller protruding domes—forms that suggest a plant’s central bud. Their reflective shadows will offer images of a flower blooming, of growth and creation. Amorós has stated that it is her wish that this sculpture co-exist with its viewers, bringing them closer to an ideal world where individuals can unite in celebration of creativity, nature, diversity and a shared humanity. [8]

Ocupante Ludwig Museum Koblenz 2016

In 2016 she exhibited the work title "Ocupante" at the Ludwig Museum Koblenz. The Ludwig Museum Koblenz shows three great works of her two large-scale installations and a video with the Spanish title "ocupante" - what occupiers or owners may be called. This title has chosen the Museum of the whole exhibition. For the artist whose work literally taken possession of the museum and its surroundings. At first glance it all looks very technical and abstract, what Grimanesa Amorós has since built up in the Ludwig Museum: An entire floor full of light tubes that are intertwined and wrapped around each other. At the ends of the space they are held by metal frames, but otherwise seem to hover in the shadows. Periodically light pulses and starts through the tubes, sometimes flashing the lights in light on, then they are dimmed again. There is a rhythm like breathing in and out, the viewer perceives him sometime down automatically.[9]

Pink Lotus at Peninsula Hotel NY 2016

Golden Waters in Scottsdale, Arizona

In keeping with the initiative's "pink" theme, Amorós has used LED lights to create a pink lotus flower that highlights The Peninsula New York's landmark Beaux-Arts façade. By placing the installation on the main façade, Amorós is supporting Breast Cancer Awareness Month by drawing attention to both the Roman Goddesses, who represent the power of women worldwide and to the lotus flower's symbolic associations with creation, enlightenment and rebirth. PINK LOTUS creates a dialogue with the existing architecture and the history of the site, with a dramatic 11-minute light sequence that provides the public with a unique visual experience created by the LED lighting.[10]

Inspired by the natural elegance of the Arizona canal, which were modeled after the 13th-century waterways dug by the Hohokam tribe,[11] Golden Waters is mounted on a secure structure attached to the Soleri bridge, designed by artist, architect and philosopher Paolo Soleri. The hovering light sculpture extends parallel to the canal channel eighty feet west of the bridge.[12] Golden Waters' LED tubing system appears to rise from the canal waters below, celebrating theunion of light and water. The horizontal and vertical lines of Golden Waters are a metaphor for the dynamic balance between urban and natural forces that can be experienced simultaneously.[13]

Breathless Maiden Lane at 125 Maiden Lane New York, NY

Breathless Maiden Lane explores and reveals the atrium's architecture on Maiden Lane, a glass, marble and granite space in New York's Financial District. This is Amorós' sculpture from her newest body of work utilizing LED lights in combination with diffusive material and her signature "bubble" sculptures. The bubbles recall the man-made islands floating on the surface of Lake Titicaca and the long lines of LED tubing allude to distinctive reeds that grow in northern Peru.[14] The light installation is a part of VIP The Armory Show (art fair) event.[15]

The Mirror Connection at Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts by Grimanesa Amoros

The Mirror Connection is a light sculpture installation which was opened June 2, 2013 and running through June 22nd, 2013.[16] The exposed circuitry and unpredictable light patterns were both mesmerizing and surprising.[17]

Fortuna was a temporary site-specific light installation located at Tabacalera in Madrid, Spain. Commissioned by Ministry of Education and Culture in Spain, Fortuna was named after from the Tobacco brand name that was made there in the former Tobacco factory, La Fragua.[18]

Uros House in Times Square, 2011

In her lighting sculptures, Amorós has continuously returned to the theme of the "Uros Islands," which are a series of floating islands in Lake Titicaca bordering Peru and Bolivia. The islands are handmade from dried totora reeds by the pre-Incan Uros people.[19] When Amorós first visited the Uros Islands, she was struck by "the sense of weightlessness and spiritual connectivity" she experienced by walking on these floating islands.[20]

The reeds are also used as a structural material to build everything from houses to boats in the Uros culture. Amorós has incorporated the shapes and patterns of these reeds into her lighting sculptures. Recent works include: [21]

Uros Island at the 2011 Venice Biennale as part of the collateral project Future Pass

Part of The Times Square Alliance Public Arts Program[22] in collaboration with The Armory Show (art fair) [23] This piece was later on being exhibited at the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana[24] Uros House embodies the beauty of the sea foam while maintaining the traditional technique and shape of the Uros islands houses.[25]

54th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy. Part of the Collateral Event FUTURE PASS [26]

Uros Island, an installation by Grimanesa Amorós that was featured at the 54th Venice Biennale's International Art Exhibition, was inspired bu Lake Titicaca's unique floating oases in a high-elevation water world. The installation combines the shifting patterns of light and colors of Venice and of the sacred Inca lake as the sun arcs across the sky. When the sun actually sets over the Venetian exhibition site, and as sparkler stars begin spreading out across the sky, the glowing hemispheric islands in the Uros piece seem to float in mid-air, creating a fascinating illusion that gravity has temporarily disappeared. The biennale show, titled ILLUMINATIONS, was the perfect forum for this computer-controlled light sculpture.[27] The exhibition was traveled to Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan and Today Art Museum in China.[28]

Grimanesa Amoros "Uros" Tribeca ISSEY MIYAKE

Though Tribeca Issey Miyake is hardly a vast, open space typical of interventionist art, in her new installation at the Japanese designer's boutique the sculptures certainly confront new viewers and easily mixes fashion and fine art. The buoyant, effulgent bubbles create a wonderful tension with the store's exoskeletal atmosphere designed by Frank Gehry, as well as the perfectly pleated fashions on display. The installation continues her "Uros" series, inspired by artificial landscapes created by pre-Incan people, which has appeared this year at the Venice Biennale and in a public work at Times Square in conjunction with the Armory Show.[29]

At the Chapelle de la Persévérance in Tarascon, France [30]

Racimo on Allure of the Seas in Turku, Finland, 2011

Amorós had been gradually incorporating light into her sculptures, but her first major lighting sculpture was when she was commissioned by ICART for Royal Caribbean International to create a lighting sculpture for Allure of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world.

Inspired by the lighting of the natural world in her travels, Amorós sought to find a way to incorporate technology to express her own interpretation of how nature impacts her.[31] She created Racimo based on her experiences growing up in Peru spending long afternoons in the vineyards. She became fascinated by the color and shapes of the grapes. The shapes also mirrored her fascination with the shapes and colors of ocean foam.[32]