IR 145 - 2014 - 2015 (Tokyo Subway Mirror), Digital drawing, work in progress
2014-15 work in progress
Information Retrieval 145
Wall installation based on the Tokyo Subway map, first draft digital drawing. Installation venue pending.
IR 144, 2014 - 2015 (You are what you eat) Digital drawing, work in progress
2014-15 work in progress
Information Retrieval 144
Animal silhouettes and Japanese Kamon. Based on the book Can you see what was eaten? by Cho Arata. Work in progress. Installation venue pending.
IR 143, 2011 (Peter Rabbit I & II) Vinyl on Sintra. Each panel: 36 x 30 inches.
2011-12 Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children's Center
Commissioned art for a state of the art children’s hospital in Baltimore. Based on the book Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. An art rebus referencing two passages from the book. Installed in the waiting area of the in-patient ward.
IR 145-156 (Wonderland), 2011, Vinyl on Sintra. Each panel: 36 x 36 inches.
2011-12 Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children's Center
Commissioned art based on the book Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol. 12 panels of vinyl, dynamic silhouetted animal shapes with quotes from the book are installed along the corridor connecting the intensive care unit to the recovery ward.
IR 139-142, 2011 (Baltimore, 1937), Vinyl on Sintra. Each panel: 30 x 30 inches.
2011-12 Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children's Center
Commissioned art consisting of 4 panels based on vintage maps of Baltimore. Installed behind a reception desk of the in-patient ward.
Information Retrieval 138, 2009 (Spectral Lands). Dimensions variable; wall size 9 x 33 ft.
2010 Stamp Gallery
Site-specific mural created for “Dis-identification” exhibition at the Stamp Gallery of the University of Maryland.
Curator Megan Rook-Koepsel:
Geraldine Lau’s site-specific wall piece, grounds the viewer in the familiar by presenting a map of Maryland with colors signifying different elevations. Her use of maps is symbolic of the kind of ordering and categorization that causes separations and hierarchies in our own thinking about identities. But Lau’s work questions the normativity of the physical and conceptual distinctions made by boundary lines and differentiated colors by subtly shifting the edges, leaving imperfections and room for questioning within the work.
Information Retrieval 137, 2009 (Subway systems). Dimensions variable; wall size 14 x 20 ft.
2009 Subway mural
Commissioned mural for Edelman New York, American’s largest PR firm. Installed on the 14th floor of the Edelman offices in downtown Manhattan, New York.
Curator Katarina Wong:
Created specially for the New York office, Lau drew from the subway systems found in 11 of the U.S. cities Edelman has locations in. The final piece is a mash-up of these transportation networks, envisioned as a new system of information that takes the imagination everywhere simultaneously.
Information Retrieval 135, 2009 (Density). Dimensions variable, wall size 40ft x 20 ft (12 x 6 m).
2008 Japanese American Art Museum, Los Angeles
Site-specific mural for traveling Asia Society exhibition One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now. Based on a modern map of greater Los Angeles, with emphasis on the density of Asian populations in the area. Largest wall mural to date.
Information Retrieval 131 (CPRR). Wall mural 37 ft by 5 ft (11 x 1.5 m).
2007 Berkeley Art Museum, CA
Site-specific piece for traveling exhibition One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now. Based on antique maps of the Central Pacific Railroad. Installed at Berkeley Art Museum, University of California.
Information Retrieval 125 (East of India). Wall mural, dimensions variable.
2006 Asia Society New York, NYC
Site specific piece for the inaugural One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now at the Asia Society. Wrap around the main stairwell landing and banisters.
Information Retrieval 118 (Wallpaper Survey). Wall mural wrapping around stairwell, dimensions variable.
2005 Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, New York
Site-specific piece for the exhibition Out of Bounds. Information Retrieval 118 (Wallpaper Survey). Wall mural, dimensions variable.
Art Critic Ben La Rocco:
Geraldine Lau’s cut vinyl installation deftly climbs the second stairwell. Computer executed, it has the unnerving feel of military imaging despite its pop colors.
Information Retrieval 111 . Wall mural on adjacent walls. Dimensions variable. Each wall 12 x 10 ft.
2004 Visual Arts Gallery,
Chelsea, NYC
Site-specific piece for Slice and Dice exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, NYC. Based on maps of Long Island, New York.
Information Retrieval 104, (Troy, in a day) 2004. Wall mural on adjacent walls. Dimensions variable. Each wall 11 x 8 ft.
2004 The Arts Center of the Capital Region,
Troy, New York
Site-specific piece for Initial Encounters exhibition, at The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY. Based on regional maps around Troy, New York.
Information Retrieval 88 (Shea Stadium). Information Retrieval 87 (Yankee Stadium). Dimension variable.
2004 Subway Series:
Mets and Yankees
Site-specific pieces at two simultaneous venues.
Subway Series: The New York Yankees and the American Dream, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC.
Subway Series: The New York Mets and Our National Pastime, The Queens Museum of Art, NYC.
Information Retrieval 63. A four month work in progress at the World Trade Center Residency in the summer of
2001. Re-created at the New Museum December 2001.
2001 The New Musuem, NYC.
Site-specific mural recreated for World Views, at The New Museum, NYC.
Original mural was a work-in-progress at the World Trade Center studio, a residency program organized by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Information Retrieval 42. Detail. Transparent tape, black electric tape, painted shaped masking tape and map pins.
2000 The Drawing Center, NYC.
Site-specific mural in Drawing Papers 11, at The Drawing Center, NYC.