May 25, 2008

Over the past nine months, Methods & Materials has worked with Jaume Plensa on the installation
of his sculptures across the United States. Works have been installed for Richard Gray Gallery
at Art Chicago 2008 and at Art Basel Miami, at the Pappajohn Educational Center in Des Moines,
at the Frederick Meijer Sculpture Garden in Grand Rapids, at the Aventura Mall in Florida for Turnberry
Associates and most recently for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Additional installations of Plensa's work
by Methods & Materials are scheduled for 2008 and 2009.

A six-person crew installed the Niki de St Phalle exhibition at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. After a fabulous run at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago last summer, where Methods & Materials installed / de-install the show, 40 large-scale mosaic works by St. Phalle were uncrated and placed throughout the fabulous gardens of the Missouri Botanical Garden. The show will continue through October 2008. Methods & Materials will be back at the end of the show to de-install the exhibition.

Installation of the commissioned artwork for the New Indianapolis Airport has begun. Methods & Materials worked with John Van Alstine on the installation of his new 33’h sculpture “Cardinalis (Red Wing for Orville and Wilbur)” in the South Garden of the New Airport which is still under construction. Methods & Materials will return to the Airport in September to install a 120 element suspended commissioned work by Rob Fisher Sculpture.

Methods & Materials is the proud installer of large-scale artifacts for the traveling show “Roman Art from the Louvre.” Following record-breaking attendance at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, this exhibition moved to the Seattle Art Museum in January 2008. The exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts and co-curated by Daniel Roger and Cécile Giroire, curators in the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities Department at the Musée du Louvre, features “approximately 180 prime examples of Roman art drawn from the Louvre’s unsurpassed collection.” The next tour location is the Oklahoma City Museum of Art where the show opens in June 2008