Known for transforming common nylon climbing rope into elaborate, monumental sculptures, New York-based artist Orly Genger will create a unique site-specific installation for the IMA’s Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion. Genger’s project for the IMA is her largest and most ambitious to date, incorporating thousands of feet of rope, which she hand-knots, paints, and stacks, creating immense sculptures that engulf the viewer. Genger’s work challenges typical associations with craft and textile through its highly physical creation process, in which she wrestles rope into knots and amasses it into persistent and imposing sculptural objects. According to Genger, her sculptures are suggestive of "things that are beyond our control, they spill, flood and spread through space. Even as they stand still like steel monuments bolted to the ground, they threaten to envelop their surroundings like molten lava chasing anything in its path."

Artist Talk: Thursday, November 20

Image credit: Studio installation detail. Courtesy of the artist and Larissa Goldston Gallery.