Ian Brill
Band
About the Exhibit
In conjunction with Curated Storefront, Pennsylvanian artist Ian Brill installed over 2,250 square feet of LED panels in the top floor of the former Akron City Center Hotel to create Band, a programmatic and immersive light installation. Overlooking Cascade Plaza at 20 West Mill Street, the former Akron City Center Hotel stood vacant for years. The 19th floor is now filled with 3,300 light boxes, made with 207 pairs of diffusive, acrylic panels and corrugated plastic. Each light box is illuminated with a module of 6 identical RGB LEDs.
Brill’s installations, performances, and writing have been presented internationally, at conferences, festivals, and galleries. Brill’s last installation in Akron, titled Reverie, was a programmatic light installation covering the entire facade of the then vacant County of Summit office downtown, Building #2. Reverie was honored by Americans for the Arts as one of 50 outstanding public arts projects created in 2018 through the Public Art Network Year in Review program, the only national program that specifically recognizes the most compelling public art. Currently, Brill teaches at Penn State University’s World Campus/Digital Arts programs and resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
