This year the commissioned artist for the roof garden of the MET is Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi.

The site-specific work presents the first large-scale installation in the United States by the artist.

Entitled The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi, the project represents the artist’s emotional response to violence occurring across the globe in recent decades and his earnest hope for regeneration and lasting peace in the aftermath of man-made disasters.

Using the nearly 8,000-square-foot open-air space as his canvas, Qureshi has worked areas of his spilled and splattered red acrylic paint into patterns of lush ornamental leaves that evoke the luxuriant walled gardens that are ubiquitous in miniatures of the Mughal court.

In 2011 he did a similar piece in a historic courtyard for the Sharjah Biennale, and in 2012 on Cockatoo Island for the 18th Sydney Biennale.

Every summer for the past 15 years the MET’s roof garden has hosted a single-artist exhibition, including commissions by Ellsworth Kelly (1998), Magdalena Abakanowicz (1999), David Smith (2000), Joel Shapiro (2001), Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen (2002), Roy Lichtenstein (2003), Andy Goldsworthy (2004), Sol LeWitt (2005), Cai Guo-Qiang (2006), Frank Stella (2007), Jeff Koons (2008), Roxy Paine (2009) and Big Bambú by Doug and Mike Starn (2010).

The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi runs until November 3.