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The Peekskill Project, 2006
Lori Nozick: PANELRAMA
Lori Nozick: PANELRAMA
The building that now houses the Hudson Valley Center For Contemporary Art in Peekskill was once the “Panelrama” home materials and lumber company, and in this transformation lives a reflection of the changing environment. As Peekskill developed from a small working class river town into a small city, once-summer cottages and rundown city Victorians were renovated and rebuilt as larger family houses, and the do-it-yourself approach prevailed.
The Panelrama provided contractors and home-owners with simple supplies and materials, like the popular paneling of the time. This “upgrade” to ones’ living room, den, or the basement into a “rec” or “family” room, presented a “new look” or in the repressed way of suburbs, created a new facade of the old home. As the HVCCA building was renovated, it transformed an old industrial/commercial structure into a state of the art museum, and the museum continued the process of “new walls” and facade, to present a newly defined space.
Nozick built some new walls in tribute to the Panelrama, placed on top of the existing concrete block exterior of the museum building. A dialogue was created between the architecture and the place, the process of walls being built and rebuilt on top of and in front of older walls, and how that spoke to transition and change in the architecture of communities. The walls reflected structure and landscape, house and museum wall, a play of outside image on inside panel creating outside wall.