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Magda Sayeg, founder of Knitta, takes knitting out of the home and onto the streets. In Plan Ahead, she intricately weaves a playful message to pedestrians, bikers, and drivers onto an ordinary fence using colorful yarn. The message – to plan ahead – is reinforced by the artist’s choice to shrink the last to letters of the phrase and bend them vertically into only the small bit of space left over at the end of the installation, as if writing in a notebook and running out of space. Plan Ahead directs viewers' attention to Brooklyn's waterfront environment and examines the occasionally contentious, often harmonious relationship between nature and constructed space.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Plan Ahead by Magda Sayeg
Presented with North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition and Open Space Alliance
Kent Avenue between South 5th St and South 6th St, Brooklyn
Staten Island Mural by Abby Goldstein and Michael Koehler created a more colorful commute for Staten Island Ferry passengers by dressing up a chain link fence along the pedestrian walkway leading to the terminal and bus ramps. The 8-foot-tall mural depicts a colorful abstraction of the borough’s shoreline and is coupled with historic images connected to Staten Island and the waterways of New York City.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Special Project
Staten Island Mural by Abby Goldstein and Michael Koehler
Presented with Staten Island Boro President’s Office
St. George Ferry Terminal, Staten Island
People and birds were invited to relax with one another in the art installation entitled Welcomed Guests. Ten functional seats, with attached birdhouses, were placed in Red Hook by artist Atom Cianfarani. He used locally found materials, such as burgundy barrels and recycled plastic lunch trays, to create the unique birdhouses. The North Fork Vineyard and Winery provided the wine barrels and Added Value provided access to water via the Red Hook Community Farm. The artwork transformed the public space into a seating area between IKEA, the community farm, and a local park.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Welcomed Guests by Atom Cianfarani
Presented with Lower East Side Ecology Center and Added Value
Columbia Street and Halleck Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
A DOT worker gives a thumbs up to signal progress during the recovery efforts in Dongan Hills, Staten Island
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Stephen Mallon.
In 2008 NYCDOT unveiled the first project of its temporary art program through the collaborative efforts of the DUMBO Business Improvement District, artist Tattfoo Tan and more than 50 local schoolchildren. The Malaysian-born artist enlisted in the help of the children to paint hundreds of colorful panels using specialized paints matched to the colors of fruits and vegetables. The tapestry of color – 8 feet high and 70 feet long – beautified a corrugated metal fence alongside a storage yard beneath the Manhattan Bridge.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Nature Matching Systems by Tattfoo Tan
Presented with DUMBO Business Improvement District
Front and Adams Streets, Brooklyn
"With splashing brushes, for the city to bloom. And when it was done, for her kinfolk, signed – in green, the Mississippi flowed through Gotham."
Julia Whitney Barnes’ design of intertwining roots weaves in and out along a curved path leading to the Harlem River Drive. The barriers, that protect cyclists and pedestrians from vehicular traffic, measure approximately 2000 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Roots/Routes by Julia Whitney Barnes
Presented with New York Cares
West 155th St between Edgecombe Ave and Harlem River Dr, Manhattan
"Interlocking gears are a metaphor for the relationship between pedestrians, bicycles and automobiles, as the successful functioning of our transportation system relies on the predictable motion from each part, which in turn directly influences the motion of its immediate interlocking part."
Artist Eugenie Tung’s design of brightly colored spokes and gears rotate and turn as cyclists ride along this barrier site. Eugenie Tung worked alongside 200 volunteers to paint this mural measuring approximately 1400 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Teeth and Grooves by Eugenie Tung
Presented with New York Cares
Flushing Ave between Williamsburg St West and Washington St, Brooklyn
August 9, 2014-New York City-Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed a bill authorizing New York City to lower its speed limits from 30 to 25 miles per hour. The legislation seeks to lower the number of vehicle and pedestrian accidents in New York City and supports the State’s ongoing effort to make roadways safer.
Transforming Your Transit to Tranquility
A mural designed by Chris Beck and Tanya Albrightsen-Frable was painted onto the Tillary Street barriers in the spring of 2011. The process of creating the new mural began in the fall of 2010 as part of Groundswell’s Teen Empowerment Mural Apprenticeship (TEMA) program, which trains young people as apprentice artists.
Chris Beck and Tanya Albrightsen-Frable’s mural depicts a precisely painted sheet of paper transforming from a paper airplane into box, into a flower, and then into a boat. It is designed to be read from either direction of oncoming traffic, like a palindrome. It introduces a dynamic energy to the streetscape, enhancing the experience of drivers, bikers, and pedestrians passing the barrier and strikes a particularly local note by exhibiting significant pieces of Brooklyn architecture throughout the path of the single sheet of paper.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Tillary Street Barrier Art by Chris Beck and Tanya Albrightsen-Frable
Presented with Groundswell Community Mural Project
Tillary Street north of Adams Street, Brooklyn
Summer Streets takes place on consecutive Saturdays in the summer (the 2011 dates are August 6, 13 and 20) from 7:00 am - 1:00 pm. The 2010 route connects the Brooklyn Bridge with Central Park with recommended connections along low-traffic streets to the Hudson River Greenway, Harlem and Governors Island allowing participants to plan a route as long or short as they wish.
This event takes a valuable public space - our City's streets - and opens them up to people to play, walk, bike, and breathe. Summer Streets provides more space for healthy recreation and is a part of NYC's greening initiative by encouraging New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation.
Modeled on other events from around the world including Bogotá, Colombia's Ciclovia, Paris, France's Paris Plage, and even New York's own Museum Mile, this event will be part bike tour, part block party, a great time for exercise, people watching, and just enjoying summer mornings.
Visit nyc.gov/summerstreets for more information.
After traveling throughout Europe, the inflatable pavilion, Spacebuster created by the German-based artist collective Raumlabor, came to New York City. This giant bubble acted as a gathering place for community-based events including lectures, workshops, and music festivals, allowing 50 people to sit comfortably inside the dome when inflated. The dome morphed to its surroundings and was designed to temporarily occupy large urban spaces.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Spacebuster by Raumlabor
Presented with Storefront for Art and Architecture
Multiple locations in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan
As part of the Make Music New York festival, British musician and producer Nick Franglen performed for 24 hours under the Manhattan Bridge in DUMBO, Brooklyn during the summer solstice - the longest day of the year, June 21, 2011. Franglen, who is one half of the electronica band Lemon Jelly, used a sensor known as a Soundbeam to detect cyclists travelling across the Manhattan Bridge. The cyclists’ presence on the bridge was transmitted through a wire to the archway beneath the Bridge where Franglen and passersby perceived their presence as an interruption in the music being created. Like an audio camera obscura, the flow of the music stuttered and flickered as the cyclists blurred past the sensor, relaying ghostly evidence of movement on the bridge above.
Franglen’s performance at the Manhattan Bridge was prompted by his interest in capturing sound and movement on many of the world’s most famous bridges. Franglen began this journey with a 24 hour performance under the arches of the London Bridge in September 2010 for which he received considerable attention from the media.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Hymn to the Manhattan Bridge by Nick Franglen
Presented with Make Music New York and the DUMBO Business Improvement District
Water and Front Streets, Brooklyn
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"With splashing brushes, for the city to bloom. And when it was done, for her kinfolk, signed – in green, the Mississippi flowed through Gotham."
Julia Whitney Barnes’ design of intertwining roots weaves in and out along a curved path leading to the Harlem River Drive. The barriers, that protect cyclists and pedestrians from vehicular traffic, measure approximately 2000 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Roots/Routes by Julia Whitney Barnes
Presented with New York Cares
West 155th St between Edgecombe Ave and Harlem River Dr, Manhattan
For more than 15 years, Staten Island based artist, Victoria Munro has exhibited her photographic and sculptural works internationally, working between Auckland, New Zealand and the U.S. In the installation called Container Series, Munro focuses intently on color bringing vibrant colors to the Grand Staircase Plaza at Staten Island’s St. George Ferry Terminal.
The aluminum strips, affixed securely to the vertical elevations of the stairs leading up to the Plaza, are meant to mirror the shapes and colors of the shipping containers that pass through the NY waterways. Munro believes color is inextricably linked to structures and materials and her work seeks to highlight this relationship. Container Series broadens this investigation to include an exploration of geometric form and function. The artist goes on to describe that “the context and histories of transporting cargo create shifting meaning in the work, suggesting models of other ways of being, cultural blending, and future possibilities and destinations, which are yet to be discovered.”
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Container Series by Victoria Munro
Presented with Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island
Grand Staircase Plaza, St. George Ferry Terminal, Staten Island
LOVE TV, by Australian artist Rebecca McIntosh and art producer Victoria Johnstone, blended visual art, performance art and a talk show to invite New Yorkers to share their stories of life and love in New York City. LOVE TV explored the identity of people, places and diversity through the universal subject of love. The program followed artist Rebecca McIntosh, who posed as goddess Aphrodite, as she spoke with celebrities, musicians, historians, artists, local heroes and the public in her hot pink TV-shaped mobile studio. The performance encouraged creative conversation and provided the community with a chance to reclaim public space.
By partnering with artists like Rebecca McIntosh, DOT’s Urban Art Program aimed to enhance and enrich the public’s experience at Summer Streets, a three day closure of Park Avenue for recreation held on Saturdays in August. The LOVE TV performances took place at Foley Square and Centre Street at Pearl Street. Performances were also held as part of Weekend Walks in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Summer Streets
LOVE TV by Rebecca McIntosh and Victoria Johnstone
Foley Square and Centre Street at Pearl Street, Manhattan
LOVE TV, by Australian artist Rebecca McIntosh and art producer Victoria Johnstone, blended visual art, performance art and a talk show to invite New Yorkers to share their stories of life and love in New York City. LOVE TV explored the identity of people, places and diversity through the universal subject of love. The program followed artist Rebecca McIntosh, who posed as goddess Aphrodite, as she spoke with celebrities, musicians, historians, artists, local heroes and the public in her hot pink TV-shaped mobile studio. The performance encouraged creative conversation and provided the community with a chance to reclaim public space.
By partnering with artists like Rebecca McIntosh, DOT’s Urban Art Program aimed to enhance and enrich the public’s experience at Summer Streets, a three day closure of Park Avenue for recreation held on Saturdays in August. The LOVE TV performances took place at Foley Square and Centre Street at Pearl Street. Performances were also held as part of Weekend Walks in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Summer Streets
LOVE TV by Rebecca McIntosh and Victoria Johnstone
Foley Square and Centre Street at Pearl Street, Manhattan
In 1996, Ruth Lande Shuman founded Publicolor, a NYC-based youth development organization which uses color, collaboration, and design to engage at-risk students in their education and communities. The inspiration for this Publicolor project is the Fibonacci series, a math sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers, expressing the synergetic relationship between time and motion.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Color and Collaboration: A Fibonacci Series by Ruth Lande Shuman
Presented with Publicolor
21st St between 47th and 49th Rds, Queens
Location: connecting Canarsie Beach Park to Spring Creek Park
Carry: Shore Parkway - 6 road lanes with sidewalk over Fresh Creek Inlet
Opened: 1940 (replacement reconstruction started in October 2009 and is expected to be complete in fall 2014)
In 1996, Ruth Lande Shuman founded Publicolor, a NYC-based youth development organization which uses color, collaboration, and design to engage at-risk students in their education and communities. The inspiration for this Publicolor project is the Fibonacci series, a math sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers, expressing the synergetic relationship between time and motion.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Color and Collaboration: A Fibonacci Series by Ruth Lande Shuman
Presented with Publicolor
21st St between 47th and 49th Rds, Queens
For more than 15 years, Staten Island based artist, Victoria Munro has exhibited her photographic and sculptural works internationally, working between Auckland, New Zealand and the U.S. In the installation called Container Series, Munro focuses intently on color bringing vibrant colors to the Grand Staircase Plaza at Staten Island’s St. George Ferry Terminal.
The aluminum strips, affixed securely to the vertical elevations of the stairs leading up to the Plaza, are meant to mirror the shapes and colors of the shipping containers that pass through the NY waterways. Munro believes color is inextricably linked to structures and materials and her work seeks to highlight this relationship. Container Series broadens this investigation to include an exploration of geometric form and function. The artist goes on to describe that “the context and histories of transporting cargo create shifting meaning in the work, suggesting models of other ways of being, cultural blending, and future possibilities and destinations, which are yet to be discovered.”
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Container Series by Victoria Munro
Presented with Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island
Grand Staircase Plaza, St. George Ferry Terminal, Staten Island
Christian Marche’s sculpture of found metal objects, welded in abstract form and painted a matte silver, sits directly above the Bronx’s busy Grand Concourse. The size of Marche’s sculpture – measuring 10 feet tall and 16 square feet at its base – complements the sheer size of this intersection. The found objects, collected locally throughout New York City, provide an opportunity to discuss recycling and the perception of refused versus reused. Among the found objects are a taxi cab door, a flattened shopping cart, a refrigerator, and various bicycle parts.
Christian Marche is a Bronx-based artist, welder, machinist, and educator. With this installation, Marche seeks to provide a physical image for the hopes and dreams that people associate with material goods, which inevitably find their way into our landfills.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Silver by Christian Marche
Presented with Fordham Road Business Improvement District and Al Johnson Art
Fordham Road and Grand Concourse, Bronx
“As we look ahead to a more prosperous future, [For Closure is] a beacon of hope constructed from the access point of homes lost: the front door.” –artist Gabriela Salazar
Assembled from locally salvaged doors, “For Closure” provides a sense of closure for those still reeling from the recent collapse of our unstable financial structure based on an inflated housing market. The playful concept of a house of cards acts as a monument to the rebuilding of our economy and our homes.
Gabriela Salazar’s work concerns our relationships with the constructed environment engaging architecture, text, sculpture, and drawing. This is Salazar’s second iteration of “For Closure.” It is also the second NYCDOT Urban Art installation programmed at West Farms Plaza which is a designated priority site for public art.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Arterventions
For Closure by Gabriela Salazar
Presented with Bronx River Art Center
East Tremont Avenue and Boston Road, Bronx
Stop, Look, Listen was created by two professional artists and a team of youth artists as part of the Groundswell Community Mural Project’s flagship Summer Leadership Institute (SLI). SLI teams spend seven weeks during working with artists and community-based organizations, learning job skills and creating public art throughout New York City. This mural, created at the request of Brooklyn Community Board 7, focuses on traffic and pedestrian safety education, as well as site-specific themes and cultural diversity. The mural’s bold colors and graphic design make it a welcome addition to the neighborhood. At over 200 feet in length, the SLI team’s quick, careful, and detailed execution of this mural was a great accomplishment!
The safety education focus of this mural was informed by workshops lead by NYCDOT Safety Education. The artists and youth artists researched safety issues near the mural site which influenced their final design. Speed of vehicular traffic, high levels of carbon dioxide in the air, and the need for all modes of transportation to respectfully share the streets are just a few of the themes beautifully integrated in to this mural.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Special Project
Stop, Look, Listen by Conor McGrady and Amy Mahnik
Presented with NYCDOT Safety Education and Groundswell Community Mural Project
7th Ave between 62nd and 64th St, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
"Interlocking gears are a metaphor for the relationship between pedestrians, bicycles and automobiles, as the successful functioning of our transportation system relies on the predictable motion from each part, which in turn directly influences the motion of its immediate interlocking part."
Artist Eugenie Tung’s design of brightly colored spokes and gears rotate and turn as cyclists ride along this barrier site. Eugenie Tung worked alongside 200 volunteers to paint this mural measuring approximately 1400 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Teeth and Grooves by Eugenie Tung
Presented with New York Cares
Flushing Ave between Williamsburg St West and Washington St, Brooklyn
"Interlocking gears are a metaphor for the relationship between pedestrians, bicycles and automobiles, as the successful functioning of our transportation system relies on the predictable motion from each part, which in turn directly influences the motion of its immediate interlocking part."
Artist Eugenie Tung’s design of brightly colored spokes and gears rotate and turn as cyclists ride along this barrier site. Eugenie Tung worked alongside 200 volunteers to paint this mural measuring approximately 1400 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Teeth and Grooves by Eugenie Tung
Presented with New York Cares
Flushing Ave between Williamsburg St West and Washington St, Brooklyn
Summer Streets takes place on consecutive Saturdays in the summer (the 2011 dates are August 6, 13 and 20) from 7:00 am - 1:00 pm. The 2010 route connects the Brooklyn Bridge with Central Park with recommended connections along low-traffic streets to the Hudson River Greenway, Harlem and Governors Island allowing participants to plan a route as long or short as they wish.
This event takes a valuable public space - our City's streets - and opens them up to people to play, walk, bike, and breathe. Summer Streets provides more space for healthy recreation and is a part of NYC's greening initiative by encouraging New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation.
Modeled on other events from around the world including Bogotá, Colombia's Ciclovia, Paris, France's Paris Plage, and even New York's own Museum Mile, this event will be part bike tour, part block party, a great time for exercise, people watching, and just enjoying summer mornings.
Visit nyc.gov/summerstreets for more information.
The acronym “CHANGE” stands for “Change happens as new growth evolves” for FIT students Valentina Burzanovic, Anne Mailey, Camilla Mayer , Ana Misenas, and Jason Mitja. The group designed a mural to portray the evolution of communication from paper to computer technology with visual elements representing extended tree branches intertwined with a brightly-colored background.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
CHANGE by FIT Students
Presented with 34th Street Partnership
West 31st St between 9th Ave and Dyer Ave, Manhattan
The Animus Art Collective, made up of Preston Dane, Annie Vainchenker, and David Ort, worked with NYCDOT and the Action Arts League in the creation of Dream Outside the Box. The Animus Art Collective created the sculpture by building various sized red, white, and blue boxes stacked and interlocked with one other. Together, the painted boxes of plywood were a sculptural representation of the American flag. In addition to NYCDOT and AAL, New York City school children from P.S. 163 contributed to the fabrication of this project by coming up with their own versions of the American dream which were engraved on to the boxes by the artists.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Dream Outside the Box by Animus Art Collective
Presented with Action Arts League
97th St between Amsterdam and Columbus Aves, Manhattan
Made from galvanized, durable ductile iron, meter racks easily slide on to former parking meter posts that have had their heads removed following DOT’s installation of new, user-friendly muni meters. By taking advantage of already-installed infrastructure, the meter racks eliminate the cost of removing old posts combined with the cost of installing an entirely new bike rack.
The new meter rack’s design is based on the standard “Hoop” rack designed by Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve, which was selected as the winner of a DOT and Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum-sponsored competition in 2008.
6,000 racks will be installed at meters citywide to help meet the city's growing demand for public bike parking.
Summer Streets takes place on consecutive Saturdays in the summer (the 2011 dates are August 6, 13 and 20) from 7:00 am - 1:00 pm. The 2010 route connects the Brooklyn Bridge with Central Park with recommended connections along low-traffic streets to the Hudson River Greenway, Harlem and Governors Island allowing participants to plan a route as long or short as they wish.
This event takes a valuable public space - our City's streets - and opens them up to people to play, walk, bike, and breathe. Summer Streets provides more space for healthy recreation and is a part of NYC's greening initiative by encouraging New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation.
Modeled on other events from around the world including Bogotá, Colombia's Ciclovia, Paris, France's Paris Plage, and even New York's own Museum Mile, this event will be part bike tour, part block party, a great time for exercise, people watching, and just enjoying summer mornings.
Visit nyc.gov/summerstreets for more information.
In 1996, Ruth Lande Shuman founded Publicolor, a NYC-based youth development organization which uses color, collaboration, and design to engage at-risk students in their education and communities. The inspiration for this Publicolor project is the Fibonacci series, a math sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers, expressing the synergetic relationship between time and motion.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Color and Collaboration: A Fibonacci Series by Ruth Lande Shuman
Presented with Publicolor
21st St between 47th and 49th Rds, Queens
"Interlocking gears are a metaphor for the relationship between pedestrians, bicycles and automobiles, as the successful functioning of our transportation system relies on the predictable motion from each part, which in turn directly influences the motion of its immediate interlocking part."
Artist Eugenie Tung’s design of brightly colored spokes and gears rotate and turn as cyclists ride along this barrier site. Eugenie Tung worked alongside 200 volunteers to paint this mural measuring approximately 1400 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Teeth and Grooves by Eugenie Tung
Presented with New York Cares
Flushing Ave between Williamsburg St West and Washington St, Brooklyn
NYC DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg joined UNICEF, NYPD Chief Chan, Zoleka Mandela, WHO and Michelle Yeoh joined together to #SaveKidsLives with road safety.
Magda Sayeg, founder of Knitta, takes knitting out of the home and onto the streets. In Plan Ahead, she intricately weaves a playful message to pedestrians, bikers, and drivers onto an ordinary fence using colorful yarn. The message – to plan ahead – is reinforced by the artist’s choice to shrink the last to letters of the phrase and bend them vertically into only the small bit of space left over at the end of the installation, as if writing in a notebook and running out of space. Plan Ahead directs viewers' attention to Brooklyn's waterfront environment and examines the occasionally contentious, often harmonious relationship between nature and constructed space.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Plan Ahead by Magda Sayeg
Presented with North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition and Open Space Alliance
Kent Avenue between South 5th St and South 6th St, Brooklyn
ARTfarm was an installation composed of 59 planters made from recycled materials such as cabinet doors and carpet crates arranged from the top to the bottom of a step street in the Bronx. The planters featured flowers and plants which instantly brightened the site and transformed the concrete structure into an eye-catching living sculpture and attractive public space.
Architecture for Humanity Studio drew inspiration for ARTfarm from the nearby farmers’ market and worked closely with the Bronx Museum of Art, located around the corner, to host a workshop for local school children and community members to paint many of the planters.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
ARTfarm by Valeria Bianco, Christian Gonsalvez, and Justin Taylor
Presented with Architecture for Humanity Studio and Bronx Museum
165th Street and Carroll Place, Bronx
“Undulating planes of pattern and color that drift back and forth creating a syncopated rhythm with the traffic rushing by.”
Artist Almond Zigmund’s work strives to sharpen our perceptions of space while exploring the nature of opposition. Combining crisp geometry, vivid color, and intricate patterns, her drawings, sculptures, and installations reference aspects of the built environment.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Planes A-Way by Almond Zigmund
Presented with New York Cares
21st Williamsburg St W between Kent and Flushing Aves, Brooklyn
"Interlocking gears are a metaphor for the relationship between pedestrians, bicycles and automobiles, as the successful functioning of our transportation system relies on the predictable motion from each part, which in turn directly influences the motion of its immediate interlocking part."
Artist Eugenie Tung’s design of brightly colored spokes and gears rotate and turn as cyclists ride along this barrier site. Eugenie Tung worked alongside 200 volunteers to paint this mural measuring approximately 1400 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Teeth and Grooves by Eugenie Tung
Presented with New York Cares
Flushing Ave between Williamsburg St West and Washington St, Brooklyn
NYCDOT, The Center for Architecture, and Max Protetch Gallery worked together to bring the 24 Foot Fly’s Eye Dome to LaGuardia Place in conjunction with a Whitney Museum exhibition about R. Buckminster Fuller’s work as an architect, engineer, designer, and inventor. The central placement of the dome on the wide sidewalk invited pedestrians to interact freely with the form stepping in and out of the dome to take in the scale and complexity of the piece.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
24 Foot Fly’s Eye Dome by R. Buckminister Fuller
Presented with The Center for Architecture and Max Protetch Gallery
LaGuardia Place between W 3rd and Bleecker Streets, Manhattan