On December 15, 1966, the Albright-Knox hosted a Members’ Preview of the newly acquired Mirrored Room with artist Lucas Samaras in attendance. The work almost immediately became a visitor favorite. One 1966 newspaper columnist summarized the encounter as “an experience not soon forgotten. How often can we step into a work of art and become both spectator and participant?”
Lucas Samaras's Mirrored Room, 1966, in Out of Sight! Art of the Senses. Mirror on wood, 96 x 96 x 120 inches (243.8 x 243.8 x 304.8 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1966 (K1966:15). © Lucas Samaras. Photograph by Tom Loonan and Brenda Bieger.
Lucas Samaras’s Mirrored Room is on view as part of the special exhibition Out of Sight! Art of the Senses through January 28, 2018.
