For the third year in a row, Melissa Smey, executive director of Miller, and Deborah Cullen, director and chief curator of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, have commissioned an artist to produce a site-specific work in the lobby that will remain on view until June.
“You would think that the confines of this lobby space would be limited and fixed, but each year artists surprise us anew with their creativity and expansiveness of vision,” said Smey. \"Our collaboration with the Wallach is a natural extension of what we do here. Each season, we have a number of composers whom we commission to create new musical pieces. It’s been wonderful to do the same with visual artists.”
Garcia believes her work has found a natural home in the theater lobby because it’s so dramatic. She has been exploring Dominican immigration to New York through her art ever since she arrived here from the Dominican Republic in 1986.
\"The land we inhabit is surrounded by water,\" said Garcia. \"My mural uses paint, hand drawing, affixed pieces of plastic and silkscreened images of water, which allude to the route that migrants from all over the world must take to reach another land of opportunity.”