Herrick

The Brooklyn (NY) Museum held a gala in honor of the opening of its Murakami exhibit. It was quite an event, some 1500 people in attendance and Kanye West performing. The balloons you see are Murakami's art balloons.

"The setting was the museum's lobby, where architecture is a blend of old brick from the original museum and new stark white walls and glass. The client wanted an evocative and exciting look that highlighted the Murakami elements. I used Vari*Lite fixtures but with custom gobos for much of the design. The Amber break up you see on the brick is generated by Lekos with the Rosco Amber Stipple Colorizer gobo with R09 added to it.

"The ceiling is splashed with custom Rosco Prismatics made of R79 and R81 mixed with white. We overlaid R68 in front of them. The texture on the wall is also a custom-made glass gobo in the moving lights. This ocean wave like texture actually served to evoke a sense of Van Gogh's Starry Night. Blended with the amber stipple it felt like daylight was peeking through trees from the brick vestibule.