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Playful, surreal narratives designed by artist Carla Torres have been painted onto 715 feet of concrete barrier in Tribeca along the Hudson River Greenway near Pier 25.
Torres’ design is inspired by silhouetted shadow puppets and a narrative based on the longing for spring and the playful energy of the cyclists and pedestrians who use the park on a daily basis.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Design submission by Carla Torres
Presented with New York Cares and Hudson River Park Trust
West St South between North Moore St and Laight St, Manhattan
Artists Clare Herron and Chris Beck created this artwork in partnership with Groundswell Community Mural Project’s TEMA (Teen Empowerment Mural Apprenticeship) and fifteen youth. The mural uses paint, printed parachute cloth, and mosaics to depict the process of pollination and show its significance on a larger scale in a visual narrative 200 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Worker Bees by Clare Herron and Chris Beck
Presented with Groundswell Community Mural Project and Downtown Brooklyn Partnership
Tillary Street and Adams Street, Brooklyn
Lincoln Road Serape is a 70-foot weaving of plastic ribbons installed on a chain link fence that creates a colorful swathe connecting two neighborhoods surrounding the Lincoln Road footbridge. The installation is based on the diamond shapes and patterns woven by Navajo craftspeople.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Lincoln Road Serape by Katherine Daniels
Presented with LinRoFORMA
Lincoln Rd between Flatbush and Ocean Aves, Brooklyn
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
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
Mall-terations is a temporary art installation created to activate three pedestrian malls and celebrate the history of immigration on the Lower East Side. It also honored the co-naming of Allen Street as the Avenue of the Immigrants. Elements of the installation include five colorful benches that turn on wheels like compasses, neighborhood maps and historical timelines about immigration to both the Lower East Side and Chinatown along with the development of the Allen Street Corridor.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Mall-terations by Carolina Cisneros, Marcelo Ertorteguy, Mateo Pinto and Sara Valente
Presented with Hester Street Collaborative
Allen Street between Houston and Delancey Streets, Manhattan
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.
R-O-B/Structural Oscillations may have been the brain child of Gramazio & Kohler, but R-O-B, a simple robotic arm, is what is responsible for physically stacking and epoxying more than 7,000 bricks into a looping wall that ran the length of a pedestrian mall on Pike Street during a three-week installation period.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
R-O-B/Structural Oscillations by Gramazio & Kohler
Presented with Storefront for Architecture
Allen Street Mall, 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
Mall-terations is a temporary art installation created to activate three pedestrian malls and celebrate the history of immigration on the Lower East Side. It also honored the co-naming of Allen Street as the Avenue of the Immigrants. Elements of the installation include five colorful benches that turn on wheels like compasses, neighborhood maps and historical timelines about immigration to both the Lower East Side and Chinatown along with the development of the Allen Street Corridor.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Mall-terations by Carolina Cisneros, Marcelo Ertorteguy, Mateo Pinto and Sara Valente
Presented with Hester Street Collaborative
Allen Street between Houston and Delancey Streets, Manhattan
NYC DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg joined UNICEF, NYPD Chief Chan, Zoleka Mandela, WHO and Michelle Yeoh joined together to #SaveKidsLives with road safety.
A Collection of Local Memories interprets the history and culture of a small part of Brooklyn through the eyes of local senior citizens. Artist Gabriel “Specter” Reese spoke with this generation of Brooklynites and drew inspiration from photos, illustrations, and archival images to create a visual and narrative “mash up.” Located directly across from Prospect Park and adjacent to an MTA subway entrance, the sculptural installation created an icon for this community. The colorful lifelike imagery united the old and the new, reminding residents of the diversity both then and now.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
A Collection of Local Memories by Gabriel “Specter” Reese
Presented with International Studio and Curatorial Program
Ocean Avenue and Parkside Avenue, Brooklyn
Samuel Holleran’s design evokes a fanciful picture-book impression of nature. Nature and man-made intertwine; trees resemble spherical street lighting while rocky outcroppings resemble chunks of baking chocolate. The artist’s design is to be implemented on 660 feet of concrete barrier along Columbia Street near Brooklyn Bridge Park, Van Voorhees Park, and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Design submission by Samuel Holleran
Presented with New York Cares
Columbia St between Atlantic Ave and Congress St, Brooklyn
Many people walk and cycle along the Pulaski Bridge that unites Brooklyn and Queens. Long Island City-based artist Joel Voisard created Bridge that Binds to enliven the space. Alternatives Queens Committee, the Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit, and the children of Andrews Grove, designed graphics of people’s movements such as, walking, cycling, or doing the moon walk, towards the center of the bridge. On the Queens side of the bridge, images were maroon to pay homage to the 7 train and on the Brooklyn side, images are green to reference the G train. Voisard installed a bench made of found lumber in the center of the bridge (overlooking Newton Creek) to create a meeting point between the two boroughs.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Bridge that Binds by Joel Voisard
Presented with Transportation Alternatives Queens Committee
11th Street, Queens and McGuiness Boulevard, Brooklyn
Bright Nights, a digital installation, celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Manhattan Bridge through site-specific imagery projected on to the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage in Brooklyn. The graphics created by Burak Arikan, Motomichi Nakamura, Marius Watz, and Lee Wells explored the physical, spatial, and historical components of the bridge. Art consulting firm Random Number, Two Trees, the DUMBO Business Improvement District, NYC Bridge Centennial Commission, and Rooftop Films also contributed to this temporary art installation.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Bright Nights by Burak Arikan, Motomichi Nakamura, Marius Watz, and Lee Wells
Presented with Random Number
Front and Adams Streets, Brooklyn
Broadway: 1000 Steps in and around Montefiore Park is a project based on the City as Living Laboratory: Sustainability Made Tangible Through the Arts Framework, which broadly aims to build upon the City’s initiative to establish Broadway as the preeminent “green corridor” in New York City.
As pedestrians approach Montefiore Park, a field of green vertical structures defined the area. Visitors encountered convex mirrors installed at various heights reflecting their own image as well as fragments of the city. Color-coded markings around manhole covers, storm-water inlets, and light posts help decode the site’s existing infrastructure. The specific topic addressed at this site was food as related to health.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
1000 Steps Along Broadway by Mary Miss
Presented with Montefiore Park Neighborhood Association
and City College Department of Urban Design
Broadway and 137th Street, Manhattan
Location: connecting West Maspeth in Queens and Greenpoint in Brooklyn, New York City
Carry: Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (Interstate 278)
Type: Truss Bridge
Opened: 23 April 1939
Average daily traffic volumes (2008): 182,000
Amy Madden’s design showcases the changing seasons and the unique, natural environment of each season. It is “a design inspired by wildflowers, meadow grasses and garbage.”
30 volunteers painted alongside the artist over a single day in October. The barriers, separating cyclists and pedestrians from vehicular traffic, measure approximately 1000 feet in length and are adjacent to Prospect Park. The project was made possible with support from NY Cares in partnership with DOT and the Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Seasonal References by Amy Madden
Presented with New York Cares
Fort Hamilton Parkway between Park Circle and Prospect Ave, Brooklyn
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
NYC DOT crews were out late painting the blue line in preparation for the TCS NYC Marathon.
Working through the night, the Nightliner drove through Brooklyn painting the blue line up and down 4th Ave., off the Verrazano Bridge, all the way to the Queensboro Bridge in LIC.
Have you seen the blue line?
"A water work for Ozone Park."
Artist Corinne Ulmann’s design of delicate-looking lily pads floats amongst a sea of blues. Painted on barriers separating two-way traffic, the mural measures approximately 100 feet in length. Corinne Ulmann worked alongside 30 volunteers to implement this design on both sides of the barrier site creating a sculptural landscape for the residents of Ozone Park.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Reflecting Pond by Corinne Ulmann
Presented with New York Cares
97th and Centreville Streets, Queens
Mall-terations is a temporary art installation created to activate three pedestrian malls and celebrate the history of immigration on the Lower East Side. It also honored the co-naming of Allen Street as the Avenue of the Immigrants. Elements of the installation include five colorful benches that turn on wheels like compasses, neighborhood maps and historical timelines about immigration to both the Lower East Side and Chinatown along with the development of the Allen Street Corridor.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Mall-terations by Carolina Cisneros, Marcelo Ertorteguy, Mateo Pinto and Sara Valente
Presented with Hester Street Collaborative
Allen Street between Houston and Delancey Streets, Manhattan
I-678 northbound approaching the Bruckner Interchange (I-95/I-295/I-278/I-678/Hutchinson River Parkway) in the Bronx, at the base of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge. Only one cardinal direction suffix missing on the exit tab on the center side!
Artist Oscar Lopez was selected winner of a design competition to create a mural for the concrete portion of a step street in the Bronx. The artist developed his concept in workshops with local school children and with the guidance of Architecture for Humanity, the Department of Transportation, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts as well as a number of volunteers who helped to paint the mural over the course of three weekends.
The artist’s design suggests forward momentum and growth with an urban, grid-like structure serving as a backdrop for the prominent vegetation-growing figure reaching for the sun.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
ARTfarm by Oscar Lopez
Presented with Architecture for Humanity and Bronx Museum
165th Street and Carroll Place, Bronx
The abstract sculpture, Aurora, fabricated by artist Diego Medina, was inspired by the Spanish poet Frederico Garcia Lorca. Medina interlocked geometric shapes, pillars an arch and a star, so that when the sculpture is viewed from various angles, it takes on different shapes and forms. Though NYCDOT, BRAC, and Medina worried that individuals might mark the sculpture with graffiti, it remained unscathed throughout the installation period. The sculpture created a focal point in what was once a barren plaza.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Aurora by Diego Medina
Presented with Bronx River Arts Center
East Tremont Avenue and Boston Road, Bronx
DOT employees repair the Battery Park Underpass in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Alex Engel
React, Respect, Intersect 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 depicts a utopian environment where vehicular traffic, pedestrians of all ages and abilities, bicyclists, skateboarders, and animals respectfully share the street. It focuses not only on traffic and pedestrian safety education, but also site-specific themes and cultural diversity.
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
React, Respect, Intersect by Yana Dimitrova and Adam Kidder
Presented with NYCDOT Safety Education and Groundswell Community Mural Project
East 5th Street in Kensington, 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.
Artist John Chadwell has partnered with the NYCDOT Art Program and the Kew Gardens Improvement Association, Inc. to present the mural “Eastbound, Westbound” along the 82nd Avenue Bridge at Grenfell and Austin Streets in Kew Gardens, Queens. The eastbound side of the mural is a scenic view of the Montauk/Orient Point Long Island shoreline while the westbound side of the mural depicts the Manhattan skyline. The project aims to beautify, activate and enliven a pedestrian walkway.
NYCDOT Art Program, Community Commissions
Eastbound Westbound by John Chadwell
82nd Avenue Bridge, Grenfell and Austin Streets, Kew Gardens, Queens
React, Respect, Intersect 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 depicts a utopian environment where vehicular traffic, pedestrians of all ages and abilities, bicyclists, skateboarders, and animals respectfully share the street. It focuses not only on traffic and pedestrian safety education, but also site-specific themes and cultural diversity.
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
React, Respect, Intersect by Yana Dimitrova and Adam Kidder
Presented with NYCDOT Safety Education and Groundswell Community Mural Project
East 5th Street in Kensington, Brooklyn
Sam Holleran’s design evokes a fanciful picture-book impression of nature. Nature and man-made intertwine; trees resemble spherical street lighting while rocky outcroppings resemble chunks of baking chocolate. The artist’s design is to be implemented on 660 feet of concrete barrier along Columbia Street near Brooklyn Bridge Park, Van Voorhees Park, and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Design submission by Sam Holleran
Presented with New York Cares
Columbia St between Atlantic Ave and Congress St, Brooklyn
Location: Washington Heights in Manhattan to Highbridge in the Bronx NYC
Carry: 8 road lanes of I-95 and US 1
Type: 2 parallel steel arches with concrete and steel girder approach viaducts
Opened: 1963
First visited: 16 September 2006
The Animus Art Collective’s installation, Flaming Cactus, transforms ordinary streetscapes through the use of vibrantly colored zip ties affixed to street poles. Originally installed at FIGMENT 2011 on Governors Island, the installation brought its playful energy and whimsy to Astor Place in Manhattan.
The zip ties, once wrapped and locked around the street poles, have tails of excess material. These tails create the effect of cactus needles sprouting from the trunk of the street poles.
In an interview for the Figment Project, Animus co-founder, Preston Dane said, “Our hope is to show that adding art to a community or space doesn’t require a lot of resources, formal education, or even money. Creativity is something we’re all capable of.”
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
Flaming Cactus by Animus Art
Presented with Figment Project
Lafayette Street and 4th Avenue, Manhattan