Tag: subway art
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Gallery Mondays: ‘Happy City’ by Peter Sis
Happy New Year! I snapped a pic of this giant eye-shaped subway art at 86th Street on the 4, 5, 6 line last January. The piece is part of Czech-born artist Peter Sis’ Happy City. From afar, this simply looks like a blue eye, and probably nothing more. However, if you get closer to it, you’ll notice…
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Gallery Mondays: “Knickerbocker Ave” by Ryan Peltier
If NYC had an underground Halloween/macabre dance party, I think it would definitely look like Ryan Peltier’s “Knickerbocker Ave”. Especially if this underground party took place at a Brooklyn subway stop. “Knickerbocker Ave” is one of those subway art cards I can’t stop staring at. Whenever I look at it, I notice something more and more…
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Gallery Mondays: Platform by Jillian Tamaki
As a New Yorker, I must say, this is a very accurate representation of an NYC MTA subway platform. I’ve been seeing this art card on several trains, but since the cars are always packed to the brim, I could never get a good photo of it until recently. Called “Platform,” the art card by…
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Gallery Mondays: Linda Ganjian’s ‘Home Sweet Home’
I didn’t get to see the station art at 111 Street on the A train line until last month. I had honestly forgotten that the station got renovated in general, so it was nice walking onto the platform and seeing Linda Ganjian’s Home Sweet Home stainless steel cut outs on the panels. What I really love…
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Gallery Mondays: ‘Oculus’ by Kristen Jones and Andrew Ginzel
If you’ve ridden the A, C, or E train to Chambers Street in NYC, or ever waited for one of those trains underground, you’ve probably noticed a bunch of eyeballs staring at you. I’ve always found these mosaic eyes to be quite intriguing, and it wasn’t until recently while writing an article for Parachute by…
The Whisper Box 