Ian Gerson makes site-specific room-sized installations comprised of built structures, large paintings, and handmade and collected objects. Past projects include a temporary travel agency constructed in an empty Italian ice storefront in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a mock park ranger booth at Socrates Sculpture Park, a museum dedicated to a forgotten history of Governors Island, and a recreation of the home of a fictional artist and sea-lover on Staten Island.
Discipline:
Visual Art – installation
Ian Gerson
Discipline:
Visual Art – installation
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2015
Studios
Alexander
Ian Gerson worked in the Alexander studio.
Originally designed to be a visual art gallery, this facility was built in memory of the late John White Alexander (1856-1915) and funded by Elizabeth Alexander and their son James. John White Alexander was highly regarded as a portrait painter and, in the early part of the 20th century, served…