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Congratulations to artists Mel Chin and Jeffrey Gibson on receiving esteemed MacArthur Fellowships! Chin’s thoughtful #MTAArts project “Signal” has activated the mezzanine of the Broadway-Lafayette Street/Bleecker Street (F/M/B/D) station in Manhattan since 1997 (rededicated in 2018). Gibson’s future #MTAArts project is currently in fabrication and we are excited to see his work take shape.

Gibson images courtesy of Tom Patti Design. 

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Elusabeth Condon’s newly installed “Urban Idyll” (2018) at Astoria-Ditmars Blvd (N/W) embodies a textile “tree of life” pattern familiar to many cultures. For the 36 laminated glass panels fabricated by Tom Patti Design, Condon recombined sections from a variety of her paintings into new configurations to create an environment where time can “unfold in liquid pours of color, with birds, trees and flowers at various stages of flight, perch and bloom”. These elements turn and flow rhythmically across the sequence of the glass artwork, evoking the transitions of travel. The linear, elongated compositions are designed to scan right to left like a #croll, recording the passage of time through vivid color and with rhythmic echoes of musical notations and film frames, dear to Astoria’s cinematic history.

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“Come Back Home” (2018), Timothy Hyunsoo Lee’s newly installed laminated glass panels at the LIRR Stewart Manor station, takes inspiration from the flora of Garden City, extracting colors from the leaves as they cycle through the seasons. Derived from a series of original watercolor paintings, Lee worked with fabricator Tom Patti Design to translate his paintings into laminated glass panels. Using fractal-like forms, Lee responds to the landscape of the Stewart Manor community creating inviting spaces along the platform.