Looking Back: Lucas Samaras's Mirrored Room

Identity and exhibition design for Looking Back: Lucas Samaras's Mirrored Room at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. This collection work was exhibited (June 12, 2023–January 29, 2024) in the M&T Gallery a free-of-charge space. Set in the AKG house graphic identity, the exhibition treatment took inspiration from a 1966 Members' Opening invitation, the year the work was first exhibited at the museum.

Curated by Andrea Alvarez. Photos by Brenda Bieger.

2023

Sarah Braman: Finding Room

Exhibition guide:
6” × 9” (24” × 9” unfolded)
digitally printed
double gate fold

Identity design for Sarah Braman: Finding Room, a collaborative exhibition between Frank Llyod Wright’s Graycliff (1926) and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Including an exhibition guide, bookmark, exhibition wall labels and vinyl, digital and print advertisements. Designed together with Ben DuVall.

Curated by Andrea Alvarez and Zack Boehler.

2022

Lehmann Maupin

Instagram Face Filter together with artist Tony Oursler for Lehmann Maupin. Technical production.

Lehmann Maupin Instagram asset promoting newsletter subscriptions.

Lehmann Maupin represents a diverse range of contemporary artists, with locations in New York, London, Seoul and Hong Kong. As lead graphic designer, I sought to create a unified visual language across printed matter and digital platforms in keeping with the existing brand identity.

2020–2024

Frieze NY Annex

Identity design for Lehmann Maupin’s Frieze New York Annex. Including a video asset and window vinyl for both the 22nd and 24th street locations of the gallery in New York.

Photos by Daniel Kukla.

2021

Washington Baths

Digital asset for Poole Music’s concert at Washington Baths, a public sauna in Portland, Maine. Emphasizing the sauna’s logomark, the Rod of Asclepius, as well as the music of Lieven Martens and JAB. Their music is inspired by the American West, bringing up associations of vast landscapes traversed on empty highways.

The images were created with the AI image generator, craiyon. The prompt: “rod of asclepius chrome shiny hood ornament on the hood of a car in the desert on a highway.”

Announcing the launch of Public Days at Washington Baths. To view our collaborative research process for both projects click here.

2021–2022

Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art

Identity design for Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art at Albright-Knox Northland, Buffalo, New York (now Buffalo AKG Art Museum). Including video animation, digital and print advertisements, exhibition wall labels and vinyl, printed exhibition guide and children’s guide.

Exhibition guide:
5.5” × 8.5”
off set printed with two Pantone colors (blue based on the artist Sondra Perry’s use of chroma-key blue in her work IT’S IN THE GAME)
saddle stitched

Curated by Tina Rivers Ryan. Photos by Brenda Bieger.

2021

Considered Objects

Logo developed for Considered Objects, a concept studio founded by New York-based clothing designer Sara Sakanaka.

2020