Gina Dominique's 'Pink Universe,' a site specific in-the-round installation, was conceived and executed in 2019 for the Marcel Breuer designed Lehman College Art Gallery rotunda. It included two 84 x 192” gesturally abstract murals that surrounded a centralized painted geometric architectural element. The underlying concept is a celebration of the cyclical birth-death-rebirth nature of physical plane existence. Dominique’s darker mural "Pink Universe 1" is her intuited, imagined depiction of an old universe passing away. The brighter 'Pink Universe 2' is her imagined picture of a new universe coming into being. Both were inspired by her round Pink World paintings, and influenced by her research of published Hubble Telescope images. The installations contrasting geometrics on the central cluster column were inspired by Dominique’s two Concentric Pink Square paintings, and were painted with Sherwin-Williams customized pink chevrons. 

In a related piece, Dominique invited composer Baird Hersey to create a site specific soundscape. Hersey had videographer Richard Acevedo record close-ups of the three main Pink Universe installation elements, then spliced together the video clips. Then he translated the visuals into a musical score, and added 42 overdubbed tracks of his own electric guitar playing. To listen/watch the video, click Pink Universe

'Pink Universe' is dedicated to Dominique’s father, Anthony Shorto, December 28, 1938-September 2, 2019, who was enthralled by cosmologies, and passed away just days after she completed the installation.