April 29 - June 30, 2006.

The Coalition of Museum and Art Centers is proud to announce the opening of the Gluckman Mayner Architects: Making Frames Show. This show begins with the inauguration of The Warehouse Gallery, on April 29th, 2006. The Warehouse Gallery was designed by the award winning Gluckman Mayner architecture firm whose previous projects have included the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and the Dia Foundation in New York City.

From the inception of the practice in 1977, Gluckman Mayner Architects (GMA) has engaged in an exploration of the transformative effect of intervention on existing buildings and their environments. As the firm has expanded its investigations to also include new structures, it has redefined its understanding of architecture by recognizing the many agents that can inform an interactive relationship with architecture: art, viewer, structure, form, and precinct, among others. GMA has often employed the term "frame" to describe not how architecture is defined or bounded, but how it is viewed. Following from this, the projects on display in this exhibition suggest an architecture that is neither defined nor bounded by physical enclosure. Indeed, the word "frame" suggests not a boundary, but rather an aperture.