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December/January

The
object
of art is
to give
life
a
shape.
William
Shakespeare

DSA Fine Arts is pleased to announce the Mr. Alexander, a Pennsylvania artist, was
installation of Meteor Beach, a painting by awarded the commission in August 2008, and
Steven Alexander, at 600 Lexington Avenue the 8 foot square painting was installed in the
in New York City. Gensler designed lobby, in early November.

Hines’ goal for this fast-track project, was
to commission an artist to create a modern,
dynamic, colorful, site-specific painting for
the main wall that would complement both
the lobby’s new sophisticated design, and it’s
grand scale.
Alexander believes that color operates in
this work and in the world as a kind of pure
energy -- dynamic, capricious, evocative. The
surfaces emphasize the sensual rather than
analytical nature of the process, and attest to
the pervasive presence of time.
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Why do continued from page 1

two When asked how he had approached this

project, Alexander said that
colors, “ One of my primary concerns was to create a
put one dynamic color situation that evoked a light-
saturated, atmospheric openness, and formed a
next to distinct contrast with the dark wood wall on which

the other,
the painting was to be hung. The title comes from a
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piece of music I happened to be listening to as I

sing? worked, a breezy calypso instrumental by Tom

Verlaine that helped set the tone for my color
decisions.”

Alexander also said that

Can one “I am trying to build,   out of color and

really substance, a place for the viewer's consciousness --
Beijing Zhan
where unexpected associations and resonances may
explain occur, where history   merges with the present
moment, and the stuff of life, love and Roland Fischer
this? desire   has   corporeal presence -- states of being, Facades Series
embodied in paint.”

No. Formerly known as Manhattan Tower, 600

Lexington is a 36-story, 282,409-square-foot
Just as office building located on the Northwest
corner of 52nd Street and Lexington Avenue.
one can Designed by the architectural firm of Emery

never
Roth and Sons, P.C., the building was
completed in 1985. Hines acquired the

learn building from Sumitomo Life Realty in 2004

and continues to manage the building.

how to At the end of the lobby’s elevator corridor,

paint. Hines also acquired two prints by German

photographer, Roland Fischer, known for his
Pablo Picasso detailed, large-format "portraits" of the facades
of modern high-rise buildings around the
world. Fischer shoots his subjects frontally
and tightly crops them into architectural N-2
fragments. The artist transforms their three-
dimensional patterns of glass, steel, stone into
two-dimensional abstract geometries.