FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 7, 2011

ROOF GARDEN BY ARTIST PAULA HAYES TO BE INSTALLED AT WEX

New York-based artist and landscape designer Paula Hayes is creating the Wexner Center Roof Garden, a permanent outdoor installation to be unveiled during the opening celebration for the Wexner Center’s fall exhibitions September 15. The roof garden—which sits atop the center’s underground Film/Video Theater but is essentially at ground level—will feature hearty sedum plants, perennials, and grasses, as well as footpaths and sculptural planters. The garden, conceived to coincide with a Paula Hayes exhibition in the galleries, will be a permanent feature outside the Wexner Center’s front entrance, joining the adjacent permanent installation Groundswell by Maya Lin.

PRESS RELEASE: http://www.wexarts.org/info/press/ex/hayes_roofgarden_20110907.pdf 

Wexner Center Roof Garden web page: http://www.wexarts.org/ex/index.php?eventid=5913

Opening celebration details: http://www.wexarts.org/ex/index.php?eventid=5887

Paula Hayes exhibition: http://www.wexarts.org/ex/?eventid=5805

Video about all fall exhibitions: http://wexarts.org/wexblog/?p=5463

Contact for renderings and images: Karen Simonian, 614-292-9923 or ksimonian@wexarts.org