Thursday, August 20, 2009
Art
Disguising Downtown's Decrepit Construction Sites
Posted
by Benjamin Sutton
on Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:56 PM
In an effort to make some of the stalled construction sites and slow-moving public works projects all over Lower Manhattan a little less unpleasant for everyone, the
Downtown Alliance recently launched a project dubbed
Re:Construction, which turns sidewalk barriers, scaffolding and fences into venues for public art.
Previous works in the public art series included Carolina Cisneros, Mateo Pinto and Carlos J. Gomez de Llarena's decorated fences on Houston and Fulton (which, meh), and their latest set of installations includes Rachel Hayes' colorful and surreal Rainbow Conversation (pictured) on the fence around a construction site at Williams Street, Maiden Lane and Liberty Street. Click here for a full list of Re:Construction's past and current installations, and click here for Flavorwire's interview with Karin Braven (of the gallery BravinLee Programs), one of the group's lead curators.
(via NOTCOT)
Tags: Re:Construction, Carolina Cisneros, Mateo Pinto, Carlos J. Gomez de Llarena, Rachel Hayes, Downtown Alliance, public art, murals, Karin Braven, BravinLee Programs