맨해튼 컬럼비아대학교 인근의 세인트존더디바인 성당에 16마일에 달하는 리본 폭포가 설치됐다. 앤 패터슨(Anne Patterson)이 제작한 컬러풀 리본 폭포의 제목은 '디바인 패스웨이(Divine Pathway)'. 120ft x 30ft 알루미늄 트러스 프레임에 걸려 90ft 높이에 매달렸다.  

Divine Pathway by Anne Patterson

October 12, 2023 through June 2024

Cathedral of St. John the Divine

Divine Pathways is a stunning, site-specific textile installation created by artist Anne Patterson for the vaulted Nave of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

Divine Pathways will be created in concert with communities and organizations from across the Morningside Heights neighborhood, New York City, and the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Community members are invited to write their hopes, dreams, and prayers onto the ribbons that make up the piece. Individual prayers will be anonymous and beyond the viewer’s sight, but their collective presence creates an experience that is both intimate and immense.

Divine Pathways is on view October 12, 2023 through June 2024. Be sure to follow the Cathedral on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok for info on all of the upcoming programs and events held under this immersive installation!

Anne Patterson is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn. Her body of work consists of paintings, sculptures and large-scale multimedia installations that combine sculpture, architecture, lighting, video, music and scent. Drawing from her background in theater set design she uses these modalities to create an artistic practice, hovering somewhere between the visual, experiential, and immersive.

Patterson’s large-scale installations have filled cathedrals, office buildings, and galleries across the country with miles of fabric, aluminum, copper and brass. She created Graced With Light, an installation inspired by music, as the 2013 Artist-in-Residence at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Art for Earth, commissioned by the fashion house Ermenegildo Zegna in 2020, was made of thousands of lengths of fabric repurposed from Zegna fabrics. Her most recent installation, Ascendant Light, opened in the winter of 2022 in Capital One Center in VA.

Anne has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at The Ringling Museum and Alfstad & Contemporary. Her work has been shown at The Trapholt Museum, Denmark; Cristina Grajales, New York; Scope Art Fair, Miami; Aqua Art Fair, Miami; Building Bridges Art Exchange, Los Angeles; Valerie Dillon Gallery, New York; Denise Bibro, New York; Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, RI; Jessica Hagen Gallery, Newport, RI, and One Twelve Gallery, Atlanta.

https://www.stjohndivine.org/art-ideas/divine-pathways