Chambord Prints & Studio Printworks featured in art exhibit at Bloomberg network headquarters

Local Hoboken companies, Chambord Prints & Studio Printworks, collaborate with Art 21 & 3 artists to produce wallpapers for an art installation at the Bloomberg Headquarters:

AWARDING-WINNING FILM PRODUCER ART21 PRESENTS ITS FIRST EXHIBITION, “THE LIFT,” FOR BLOOMBERG LP HEADQUARTERS ­  

Original works by assume vivid astro focus, Kiki Smith, and Andrea Zittel installed in Bloomberg elevators

New York, NY — Award-winning documentary film producer Art21 presents its very first exhibition of artworks, “The Lift,” an installation at Bloomberg corporate headquarters. Art21 Executive Director Susan Sollins is curator of “The Lift” and selected works by three artists – assume vivid astro focus, Kiki Smith, and Andrea Zittel – from Art21’s PBS broadcast television series “Art in the Twenty-First Century” for the exhibition. Given the energetic and colorful atmosphere at the Bloomberg offices, Sollins chose for the display one of the only public areas where visual information is minimal: the elevators. “The Lift” transforms Bloomberg’s two banks of eight industrial elevators into immersive art installations with customized wallpapers. From the highly energetic visual landscape of assume vivid astro focus (seen in New York City in Barney’s 2011 holiday windows created in collaboration with Lady Gaga) to Kiki Smith’s poetic images of a young woman with a parasol-like moonflower floating among owls and butterflies to the complex mapping of urban landscapes as abstract patterns by Andrea Zittel, each elevator offers a unique encounter with an artist’s world.  

Employees, clients, and visitors of Bloomberg have the opportunity to experience these environments multiple times on a daily basis as they travel to, from, and within their workplace.  

Susan Sollins, Art21 Executive Director and Curator, says: “When asked to curate an exhibition at Bloomberg headquarters, I became intrigued by the notion of providing Bloomberg employees and visitors with a concentrated experience with art, one that would be isolated – or perhaps even insulated – from the everyday work environment. Turning the famous statement by Robert Rauschenberg about creating art that acts in the gap between art and life, I determined to place this exhibition in a different gap, the one that exists between the outside world and the work environment.  The elevators as mini exhibition spaces became my focus, as did the three artists in this exhibition who are part of the larger group of 100 artists Art21 has profiled to date in its Peabody Award-winning broadcast series, ‘Art in the Twenty-First Century.’”  

Temo Callahan, Co-Founder and Design Director of Studio Printworks, says: “‘The Lift’ has been an extraordinary collaboration between artists, wallpaper printers, and curators. However, the unsung hero is the talented technician Jorge Aguilar, a master paper hanger who, with the eye of a true artist, made the challenging installation happen.”  

“We applaud Art21's mission to innovate and inspire," states Erana Stennett, who manages corporate giving for the Americas at Bloomberg LP. “It is an honor to support their work and provide our employees and visitors with a unique experience.”  

About Art21 Art21 inspires a more creative world through the work and words of living artists, producing award-winning documentary films and accompanying educational resources that spark discussion and inspire innovation among a diverse international public. To date, Art21 has documented more than 100 artists through its PBS broadcast television series, “Art in the Twenty-First Century,” and its online series, “New York Close Up.” Art21’s teacher training program and worldwide public screening series provide unique opportunities and community based events for teachers, students, and the general public both nationally and internationally.  

About Bloomberg Bloomberg is the world’s most trusted source of information for financial professionals and businesses. Bloomberg combines innovative technology with unmatched analytic, data, news, display and distribution capabilities, to deliver critical information via the Bloomberg Professional service and multimedia platforms, which span television, radio, digital and print.  Since 2005, Bloomberg has partnered with nonprofit arts organizations to create temporary, rotating exhibition opportunities for seasoned and emerging visual artists. Bloomberg has a strong commitment to the environment, education, arts, science, and the humanities, and believes that communication is our most powerful tool.  

Private one-on-one tours of the exhibition can be arranged through Art21.  

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Contact Eve Moros Ortega Art21
212-741-7133 x22
eve@art21.org