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.
Disciplines:
Visual Arts – installation
Ian Gerson
Disciplines:
Visual Arts – installation
Region: Brooklyn, NY
Residencies: 2015
Studios
Alexander
Ian Gerson worked in the Alexander studio.
Funded through the generous support of Elizabeth Alexander, this studio was built in memory of her late husband, the renowned portrait painter John White Alexander (1856-1915). Originally designed as a visual art gallery, Marian MacDowell persuaded Elizabeth that the space would better serve the arts if commissioned as a visual…