Untitled (Views), 2009, is a series of four images composed for the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center in New York City. The Breast Center is part of the Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center.
The four compositions exist as photo murals installed in specially designed ceiling alcoves above scanning machines. The machines, types of MRI's and PET scanners, require that the patient lay still, face up, for an extended period of
time. The images become the focus for the patient.
These works were commissioned by Evelyn Lauder as part of her effort to design a comprehensively therapeutic clinic. As reported in a
Vanity Fair article describing the Center,
"Lauder commissioned artist Stephen Galloway to create domed ceilings with images of sunlight peeking through trees in California. 'I wanted to help people feel relaxed and have something nice to look at during an anxious moment,'
she says."
The murals range in size from 14 1/2' x 11 1/2' to 15 1/2' x 19'.
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