Bird
The NYC Department of Transportation's Urban Art Program partnered with artist Will Ryman and the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership Business Improvement District to install the sculpture, Bird at Flatiron Plaza in Manhattan. The 12-foot tall, 12-foot wide and 14-foot long sculpture is fabricated from fifty-five hundred found and manufactured nails. The work weighs five tons and rests upon a nest of ninety-thousand nails. Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Raven" inspired the form of the sculpture. Ryman has always been drawn to oversized figures that alter interior spaces and landscapes. He recently exhibited larger-than-life roses on the Park Avenue Malls during the winter of 2010 in partnership with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation.
A native New Yorker, Ryman has exhibited domestically and internationally. Writer-turned-artist, Ryman is heavily influenced by the works of absurdist playwrights and philosophers. He is represented by Paul Kasmin Gallery.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Arterventions
Bird by Will Ryman
Flaitiron Plaza, Broadway between 23rd & 24th Streets, Manhattan
Presented with the Flatiron Partnership
Bird
The NYC Department of Transportation's Urban Art Program partnered with artist Will Ryman and the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership Business Improvement District to install the sculpture, Bird at Flatiron Plaza in Manhattan. The 12-foot tall, 12-foot wide and 14-foot long sculpture is fabricated from fifty-five hundred found and manufactured nails. The work weighs five tons and rests upon a nest of ninety-thousand nails. Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Raven" inspired the form of the sculpture. Ryman has always been drawn to oversized figures that alter interior spaces and landscapes. He recently exhibited larger-than-life roses on the Park Avenue Malls during the winter of 2010 in partnership with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation.
A native New Yorker, Ryman has exhibited domestically and internationally. Writer-turned-artist, Ryman is heavily influenced by the works of absurdist playwrights and philosophers. He is represented by Paul Kasmin Gallery.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Arterventions
Bird by Will Ryman
Flaitiron Plaza, Broadway between 23rd & 24th Streets, Manhattan
Presented with the Flatiron Partnership