Stanford Unveils MONUMENTS TO
THE FUTURE by Peter Wegner
On April 28, Stanford University opened its new 345 million USD Knight Management Center—and unveiled a suite of five permanent installations by American artist Peter Wegner.
Wegner’s installations are the only artworks to be commissioned for the new 12-acre campus, named for its primary benefactor, Phil Knight. Notable among Wegner’s projects: a 32-foot wall of colors in perpetual motion and a text-based LED wall occupying 250 square feet.
The color installation borrows the flip-digit technology used by European train station signs, but substitutes shifting colors for arrivals and departures. The LED work illuminates hundreds of adverbs in changing sequences. Both wallworks split the difference between digital and analog technologies. Similar ideas of dynamic change animate Wegner’s remaining works.
“Peter Wegner at Stanford: The Art of Innovation,” a feature article including video was recently published in The Los Angeles Times
Further examples of Wegner’s work are on view at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, currently exhibiting another of his large-scale wallworks as well as a grid of his photographs.
Wegner’s work can also be found in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and The Yale University Art Gallery.
Peter Wegner was born in Sioux Falls, SD and graduated from Yale University.
Wegner is represented by William Griffin Gallery in Los Angeles.