Jackie Ferrara takes basic geometric forms--like the ones that make up Grand Central station itself--and iterates them in a mosaic band along platform and passageway walls. The extremely simple design is almost mathematical in its purity and rigor. This is a MTA Arts for Transit project.
The passageways and waiting areas of Grand Central's subway stations are like a bustling city, an underground community — but without a skyline.
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This mosaic artwork brings architectural views down below.
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As part of the recent upgrades to the 42 St Shuttle, Jackie Ferrara’s “Grand Central: Arches, Towers, Pyramids” (2000) was expanded to span the new six-car length of track 4 and wrap new stairs from the mezzanine.
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The project was originally conceived as a skyline for the underground passageways and waiting areas of Grand Central Terminal.
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Rendered as an expansive mosaic band more than 1,500 feet long, the artwork brings architectural views down below into the busting station.
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Original artwork and expansion were fabricated by COLORCO Ltd.
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Original artwork and expansion were fabricated by COLORCO Ltd.
Taken together, they lend a unity and meditative character to the space; as people move through the platforms and passageways, the images seem to shift, and no two vistas are the same.
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Ferrara thinks of these as pieces of a mathematical puzzle.
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The spare simplicity and economy of design attracts viewers.
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Nothing is casual or unintentional in the artist's design
This sequence of stripe/image is calculated.
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It can be seen as images on a strip of film, or a line of faces framed in the windows of a passing train.
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Jackie Ferrara has explored relationships between sculpture and architecture in her pyramidal stacked structures