Frank Stella on the Roof

Since the early 1990s, the American artist Frank Stella (b. 1936) has been designing various architectural structures, including a band shell, pavilions, and museums.

With works ranging from small models to a portion of a building at full scale, this exhibition demonstrates how Stella's formal concerns have evolved from painting, to wall reliefs, to freestanding sculpture that extends into architecture.

The architectural works are accompanied by a selection of paintings, wall reliefs, and sculpture that manifest an architectural vocabulary.

This is the second show at the Metropolitan investigating the creative explorations of contemporary artists and architects: the first was Santiago Calatrava: Sculpture into Architecture.

Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture will be on display concurrently with Frank Stella on the Roof.

Together, these two exhibitions offer the artist's first solo presentation at the Metropolitan.

The exhibition publication is made possible by the Antoinette Kraushaar Fund.