forrest myers,
green T

Green T

On the occasion of Forrest Myer’s 2023 invitational exhibition, CAS installed a site-specific sculptural work on the exterior of CAS’s building on Main Street, Livingston Manor. A brightly colored T-shaped beam and segment of an aluminum channel mounted to the exterior facade of the building makes an instant visual and conceptual connection to Myers’ well-known minimalist installation, The Wall. Completed in 1973 and frequently referred to as the “Gateway to Soho,” The Wall is New York City’s largest public sculpture, covering the north-facing wall of a building on Houston Street in New York City.

About the Artist

Born in Long Beach, CA (b.1941) and raised in California, Forrest “Frosty” Myers moved east in 1962 and quickly became part of New York’s vibrant artistic community. He was a founding member of the Park Place Gallery, where he exhibited large-scale sculptures with colleagues Mark di Suvero and Robert Grosvenor, among others. During the 1960s, he created metal sculptures of complex, abstract, geometric construction, heavily influenced by Hard-Edged Abstraction. Myers became a member of the collective Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), along with fellow artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman and scientists Billy Kluver and Fred Waldhauer. Among E.A.T.’s most celebrated projects were the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo ’70 in Osaka, Japan, and the Moon Museum (1969), a miniaturized ceramic tile featuring works by Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Claus Oldenburg, John Chamberlain, David Novros, and Myers that was attached to the leg of Apollo 12’s lunar module. For the past decade, Myers has drawn inspiration from the landscape of his Pennsylvania tree farm, producing new work rooted in his signature motifs but with fresh forms and materials and a look that is denser, wider, and freer. His work is included in the collections of The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum, the National Gallery, Storm King Art Center, the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.