The Blanton Museum has tapped Snøhetta to build a canopy shade structure and commissioned the artist Carmen Herrera to create a large-scale public mural.
Rendering of the view from Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard looking northeast toward the Faulkner Gateway, showing the museum café outdoor seating at left and Carmen Herrera s mural on the right Courtesy Blanton Museum of Art, the University of Texas at Austin
The Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, will unveil a monumental mural by the 105-year-old Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera as part of a $35m redesign of its campus at the University of Texas.
The mural is inspired by the hard-edge painter’s 1956 painting
Green and White, which featured in Herrera’s long-overdue retrospective
Lines of Sight at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2016. The painting marked a “period of intense experimentation as Herrera developed her signature style”, says the museum’s director, Simone Wicha.
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Blanton Museum Of Art Announces New Grounds Initiative That Will Transform Museum Experience
AUSTIN, Texas – There is a new look coming to the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin. The comprehensive grounds redesign will unify and revitalize the museum campus, which is approximately 200,000 square feet and contains two buildings and Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin,” through architectural and landscape improvements. The project is led by international design firm Snøhetta and will feature the first major public mural commission by noted Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera.
“I believe that landscape has the power to transform a community, very much in the way that great art can transform our hearts and minds,” said Blanton Museum Director Simone Wicha. “An undertaking of this scale would not be possible without our visionary partners, including the Snøhetta team, Carmen Herrera, the Moody Foundation, and our other generous donors. The new g