Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art Debuts Architecture + Art Series
Phoenix-based architecture firm Atherton/Keener are assembling a temporary installation featuring frozen water and channeled sunlight for the series' first exhibition.
Staff -- Interior Design, 4/23/2010 12:00:00 AM
Atherton Keener, Meadowbrook Residence, 2008; photo by Bill Timmerman, copyright Atherton Keener
Although it may be located in a desert, the art and design scene in Scottsdale, Arizona is far from barren as the city's Museum of Contemporary Art launches its new Architecture + Art series this summer.
Toying with the idea of the area's notoriously hot summers, the museum, known as SMoCA, is launching the series with the exhibition "90 Days Over 100 Degrees." Designed by the Phoenix-based architecture firm Atherton/Keener, the exhibition revolves around a site-specific installation of frozen water and channeled sunlight that is meant to explore the temporal and physical qualities inherent in the material phase change from solid to liquid.
Atherton Keener, Meadowbrook Residence; rendering copyright Atherton Keener
The architects, Jay Atherton and Cy Keener, based their design on the work of one Arizona's best known artists, James Turrell, whose work examines the themes of light, space, celestial events, and perception.
Their piece will transform over the course of each day and its light intensity and color will evolve as the Arizona summer sun causes the frozen water to melt, drip, and collect. Their aim is to alert visitors to the relationship between water and electricity in the museum's highly constructed desert environment.
Images courtesy of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
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