Cornelia Parker: The Roof Garden Commission (PsychoBarn)

April 19 - October 31, 2016 - This exhibition is nearly 30 feet high, the sculpture is fabricated from a deconstructed red barn and seems at first to be a genuine house, but is in fact a scaled-down structure consisting of two facades propped up from behind with scaffolding. A large-scale sculpture by acclaimed British artist Cornelia Parker, inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper and by two emblems of American architecture the classic red barn and the Bates family's sinister mansion from Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho comprises the fourth annual installation of site-specific works commissioned for The Met's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden.