A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals
Max Protech Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Design proposal drawing and collage done in collaboration with Barbara Staffacher Solomon (mother).
Sections of collapsing and smoking remains were drawn from life at Ground Zero and collaged into the final proposal.
Ascending Towers, Descending Memorials
The new towers ascend thinner and taller from the slipped footprint of the original World Trade Center towers. Steel and mirror glass, they reflect orange at dawn and at sunset.
Light bathes the skin of the towers and projects up to the money god.
The towers rise from a memory of the ruins. Where the towers touch the earth, two memorials descend from the footprints of the World Trade Center.
One third of one building lobby is a rectangular pool of water. One third of the other is a floor of mirror.
The memorials descend as deep as the original World Trade Center towers were high. One is a shaft of water. The other is a kaleidoscope of mirror. Both are lit from 110 stories below.
Blade Runner Hair Salon Remodel, Built Project
Haight and Shradder, San Francisco, CA
1999
A painting, built.
Hundreds of frosted plexi-glass disks suspended from the ceiling on aircraft cable are back lit and projected upon. A second skin of dots completely envelops the space.
In the first cutting room walls and ceiling are built out in a regular marching rhythm. Functional cutting stations, with half circle cabinets rising out of the floor, circular mirrors on aircraft cable line the walls up to the ceiling and large plexi-glass disks cover the ceiling entirely.
As the ceiling dots march back through the space they reduce in size and increase in number to compress into a chaotic intensity down the narrow hallway. In the final room the dots explode large and huge and sweeping once again.
Rock Scissors Paper
Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999-2000
A collaborative exhibition with Barbara Staffacher Solomon (mother).
Rock : A large presentation drawing showing the design of 'Vesy Green Park' in Battery Park City, New York. Done in collarboration with Quennel Rothschild Associates and Barabara Stauffacher.
Scissors : Our models and drawings of the 'Blade Runner' hair salon project.
Paper : The paper pieces are a series that are meant to rip a scar through the seemingly placed gallery walls. These works are part of the 'Misbehaving Architecture' series.
This was my largest paper installation to date. A gigantic glacial cliff of seamless white paper installed with the help of several crews of friends working in shifts over the course of a week. The crumpled scar of paper wrapped and billowed around the gallery to envelop the viewer. The piece came to a point at one end and climbed two stories at the other end, bringing the viewer's eye to the top of the space to reveal a view up the Trans America Building. Original and operational gas lanterns lined the space. A space poised to be volatile.
SCAR: Construction Paper
Door 3 Gallery, Myrtle St., Oakland, CA
1999
A scar in space is part of the 'Misbehaving Architecture' series.
The scar reveals evidence of an eruption in the placid solidity of the gallery wall.
Villa Montalvo Artist Residency
Saratoga, CA
Artist Collaborator on Architectural Design
Composer's cottage designed in collaboration with Dan Solomon (architect, father) and Patrick Gleeson (musician).
The four solid and thick earth colored walls of the two cottages (originally designed to be rammed earth) protrude out from the land. The buildings are imbedded in the grade of the site and project out like speakers for their performers within. The space in between the two cottages is terraced as an amphitheater for intimate outdoor performances.
