Visitors to the Greensburg Art Center will encounter a large sculpture depicting a color wheel to the right of the street-side door. The metal-and-mosaic piece is a memorial to the late Cathy ...

It’s the kind of soupy late-summer day in New York City that finds the vast majority of acclaimed contemporary artists happily decamped to their cool, breezy studios on Long Island or in Connecticut.

Touring bands are a dime a dozen. When you’re a working musician, it’s expected that at some point you’ll go out and hit the dusty trail. For performance artists, that’s a different story entirely.