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SO – IL’s shifting 'Anima' design will debut at Art Omi Pavilions at Chatham in 2026

2024-11-05T18:02:00-05:00

SO – IL’s Anima pavilion design for Art Omi Pavilions at Chatham, Art Omi's brand new satellite pavilions offshoot in New York’s Hudson Valley, has been released ahead of its anticipated 2026 debut.

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Forming as a "shifting presence" on the undulating meadows at the site, the pavilion offers visitors five interconnected gallery spaces defined by their own distinct lighting and proportions and serviced by unidirectional (e.g. one way in and out) entrances.

Image courtesy SO – IL

Set against its surroundings with monochromatic dark gray cladding and a conical stacked wooden block roof structure, the design is equal to about 1,860 square feet and oscillates between 7 and 35 feet in height at its pinnacle.

Image courtesy SO – IL

The roof itself is composed of thousands of small wood blocks stacked to crate a "gauze-like" illusion and discrete filigreed texture. Back inside, the gallery spaces are reserved for the presentation of individual artworks. This is meant to a...

Pratt Institute's Julia van den Hout joins Art Omi as Curator and Program Director

2021-10-22T12:29:00-04:00

The Pratt Institute’s Julia van den Hout has been appointed Architecture Curator and Program Director of upstate New York sculpture center Art Omi.

A dual SVA and NYU alumna, van den Hout is the founder of Orginal Copy and also the co-founder and editor of CLOG, an active online forum with 13 published digital issues. She had previously served as Press Director at Steven Holl Architects until 2014 and has been a visiting professor at Pratt since 2019.

At Omi, van den Hout will be responsible for the curation of the Sculpture & Architecture Park and indoor exhibitions program in addition to overseeing the institution’s two-week Art Omi: Architecture Residency program, which is still currently accepting applications for the upcoming Summer 2022 cycle. (van den Hout had previously curated exhibitions at Omi, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Center for Architecture/AIANY).

“I...