RICHARD WOODS: PORT SUNLIGHT – LEVER HOUSE, NY, NY

For his ambitious installation Port Sunlight, Richard Woods has created nine decorative patterns that clad many areas of the Lever House lobby and outdoor area, transforming the modernist landmark with a multitude of graphic designs and high intensity colors.  Each pattern is rendered as a set of woodprint blocks that encase sections of the Lever House and its grounds, including all of the forty structural steel columns, the eight Isamu Noguchi marble benches on the exterior plazas, the interior and exterior planter, and sections of the floor inside the glass-enclosed lobby.