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| "Life Underground (Tom Otterness)" at 14th/8ave Life Underground by Tom Otterness is a large set of sculptures at the 14th/8ave station. It is place all over this pretty large station from the staircases between the A,C,E and the L trains to the Elevators and the Exits. Some of them are placed subtly that a lot of people might not even notice unless they pay extra attention, for example, the ones by the exit. They are a sculpture of an animal or a human doing their own certain thing. I pass by this station whenever I go to work and have noticed that there were the sculptures because some of them are pretty large in scale, but while I was observing for the assignment I realized that I have not noticed almost half of them before. A lot of them are in every little place that people usually don't have their eyes on. But once you notice them, each of every one of them are very interesting and thought provoking. It almost made me feel like the whole subway station was one huge gallery space for this artwork as the work was very harmonious with the place itself. |
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| "Memories of Twenty-Third Street (Keith Godard)" at 23rd street |
Memories of Twenty-Third Street by Keith Godard at the 23rd street station, which is quite similar to the artwork at the 28th street station, is a set of mosaic works of hats. It is done on the walls at the platforms where passengers constantly pass by. I have seen people taking pictures of themselves with the hats above their heads, making it look as if they were wearing the hat. But when I was observing the other side of the platform, I noticed that you can capture interesting moments where people walk by the hats and there would be a very short moment when the hat is right above their heads(video), which I found really interesting. It lets the subway riders have a short entertaining moment while waiting for their trains.
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| "City Dwellers (Mark Hadjipateras)" at 28th street City Dwellers by Mark Hadjipateras is a set of mosaic work located at the 28th street station both inside/outside of the gates. The mosaic work guides you from the staircases all the way to the platforms. They are very colorful and playful and each seems to have a little story. At least for me, it definitely seemed to brighten the atmosphere of the station, which would normally just be an underground space that has nothing to interpret or entertaining, but just where we have to be in to wait for our trains. |
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| "Framing Union Square (Mary Miss)" at Union Square |
"Framing Union Square" by Mary Miss is a set of 6 architectural panels located in Union Square subway station on the way to 4,5,6 trains. Before I paid attention to it, I almost thought that it was a part of some construction going on in the station. You can see the structure of these panels and the raw surface on the back, which seemed to be the walls of the Union Square station. I think it is to let the audience to see the station below its surface and how it is actually constructed, which the passengers would only look over or don't even think about otherwise.
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