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Through collaborations with a diverse group of arts organizations and artists, Parks bringsto the public both experimental and traditional art in many park locations. Please browse ourlist of current exhibits beneath, explore our athenaeum of past exhibits or readmore almost the Art in the Parks Program.

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Tomoaki Suzuki, Carson from Lilliput, courtesy of the High Line, Photo by Austin Kennedy

Diverse, Lilliput
April 19, 2012 to Apr xiv, 2013
Throughout the High Line
The High Line, Manhattan

Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.

Description:

Lilliput volition reflect on the traditional office of public art by offering a weigh to the awe-inspiring scale oftentimes employed for plaza sculptures and other outdoor installations in public spaces. As the first projection in the HIGH LINE COMMISSIONS series for spring, 2012, Lilliput will feature miniature sculptures installed in unusual and unexpected places at the Loftier Line – among the vegetation and forth the pathway – to create an art treasure hunt for visitors. Lilliput takes its title from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, conjuring a magical world populated past fairy tale creatures, mysterious idols, and dreamlike landscapes.

Lilliput will characteristic installations by six artists from around the globe:
Oliver Laric, Alessandro Pessoli, Tomoaki Suzuki, Francis Upritchard, Erika Verzutti, llyson Vieira

This exhibition is presented past the Friends of the High Line.

Saint Clair Cemin, Vortex Rendering, courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery

Saint Clair Cemin, Saint Clair Cemin on Broadway
September five, 2012 to Jan 25, 2013
W. 57th Street to West. 157th Street
Broadway Malls, Manhattan
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Please notation: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.

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Spanning 100 blocks to diverse locations along Broadway, Cemin's awe-inspiring mirrored stainless steel sculpture, Vortex, will tower forty anxiety high, embodying mankind's want for transcendence, whisking upwardly into the clouds all that it reflects on its surface. Along with six additional Broadway malls, stretching to W. 157th Street, Cemin will present sculptures in a range of fabric. These sculptures include: The Four, 1997, a Corten steel sculpture that longs to be at one time both geometric and organic; In The Eye, 2002, an ominous archetypical animal existing at the core of our minds; Portrait of the Give-and-take Why, 2008, a mirrored stainless steel portrait of one of the most mysterious words in the English language language; Aphrodite, 2006, a copper depiction of the ancient goddess in primitive form, representing the female figure simply and hieratically; and The Current of air, 2002, a big white marble sculpture which appears similar putty, kneaded and manipulated past behemothic hands.

This project is presented by The Broadway Mall Association in collaboration with Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Department of Transportation and the Lincoln Square Concern Improvement District.

Akihiro Ito, Forever, Riverside Park South

Art Students League, Model to Monument
June 24, 2011 to May 2012
59th to 72nd Streets
Riverside Park South, Manhattan
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Please note: This is a by showroom that is no longer installed in the park.

Description:
The Art Students League of New York, 1 of America's premier art schools, presents the Model to Monument Program (M2M), a collaboration with the New York Urban center Department of Parks & Recreation that has culminated in the installation of seven sculptures on view along Riverside South from 59th to 72nd Streets.

 The sculptures were created by an international team of seven selected League students during a nine-month program led past primary sculptor Greg Wyatt.  The pieces, i by each creative person, range from abstractions conjuring New York City's past and future, to a life-size bronze of a girl and her dog looking out on the Hudson River. The exhibition includes: River Gazers by Elizabeth Allison, The New Age by John Balsamo, Looking Up by Allston Chapman, Forever by Akihiro Ito, Flying: Past to Future by Selva Sanjines, Wish by Noa Shay, and Seiren by Matthew White.

A collaborative sculpture created by the team is besides on concurrently on view in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. The artwork, a monumental mask, was inspired by the regular performances programmed backside the Van Cortlandt House Museum.

This work was made possible by the Art Students League'southward Model to Monument Program.

Big Bronze Walking Eye Flower, 2009

James Surls, James Surls on Park Avenue
March 14, 2009 to July 24, 2009
Park Artery Malls
Park Avenue Malls, Manhattan

Delight notation: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.

Description:

James Surls is an internationally renowned artist known for creating monumental wood and metal sculptures. Based on natural forms, Surls' constructions are created using his own iconic imagery of diamonds, vortexes, needles, and flowers. The New York Metropolis Parks Public Art Program is pleased to present an exhibition of seven big-scale bronze and stainless steel sculptures that will line the Park Avenue Malls from 50th Street to 57th Street.

Due east Texas-born James Surls has been based in Colorado since 1998. His artwork has appeared in numerous international and national solo and group exhibitions. Surls was given the Living Legend Award by the Dallas Visual Fine art Centre in 1993 and is currently represented by the Charles Cowles Galley, the Gerald Peters Gallery, and the Barbara Davis Gallery.

Manolo Valdes' bronze sculptures based on Diego Velazquez' Las Meninas unveiled in Bryant Park; Photo by Clare Weiss

Manolo Valdes', Manolo Valdes at Bryant Park
March 1, 2007 to Apr 15, 2007
Bryant Park, Manhattan

Please note: This is a past showroom that is no longer installed in the park.

Description:

Manolo Valdes at Bryant Park is an exhibition of 6 monumental bronze sculptures bundled among Bryant Park's beautifully scaled open up space and neo-classical architecture.

Iv of Valdes' sculptures depict female heads, their calm facial sophistication and structured equilibrium beginning rhythmically by dynamic ornamental headpieces. 2 of the four works, all of which measure over thirteen feet loftier, are debuting in Bryant Park. Accompanying these forms are two groups of elegantly imposing figures based on Diego Velazquez' Infanta Margarita and Reina Mariana from the painting Las Meninas. The works are courtesy of Marlborough Gallery working in cooperation with the Parks Department, the Bryant Park Corporation, and Instituto Cervantes, the cultural arm of the Spanish government.

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Herb Rosenberg, A Monument to Hope, 2017, image courtesy of the artist

Various Artists, On the Rock 2017: An Exhibition of Sculpture
June 3, 2017 to Oct ix, 2017
Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk, Queens
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Delight note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.

Description:

This group exhibition includes xvi sculptures by 15 artists at 14 sites adjacent to the newly completed boardwalk on Shore Front Parkway, spanning from Beach 73 Street to Beach 108 Street. The sculptures celebrate the spirit and beauty of the Rockaways and range from the intimate to the monumental. Artists in this exhibition include Dan Bergman, Allan Cyprys, Sean 'Febrications' Landau, Esther A. Grillo, Bibiana Huang Matheis, Christina Jorge, Sui Park, Siena Gillann Porta, Carl Rattner, Herb Rosenberg, Stan Squirewell, Anne Stanner, Chuck von Schmidt, and collaborative artists Carmen Frank and Laura Frank. During each month of the exhibition, arts and cultural events, special programs and tours will be offered gratis to the public. For more data on related programming, please visit 14sculptors.com.

This exhibition is presented by 14 Sculptors Inc., with back up from the Queens Quango on the Arts with public funds from New York City Section of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the Urban center Council.

Don Gummer, Mondrian, photograph by Jane Feldman

Don Gummer, Don Gummer on Broadway
May four, 2015 to March 31, 2016
Broadway Malls, Manhattan

Please note: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.

Description:

Don Gummer on Broadway will highlight five examples of new work from Gummer'southward haiku serial, created in 2014 and 2015, which will exist shown for the first time and were created especially for this exhibition. Four additional works dating from 2011 and 2012 will as well be included in the exhibition. The sculptures range in height from eight feet to xiv anxiety.

"I beginning became interested in haiku poems because of the simplicity of their structure," stated the artist. "Three lines stacked together containing 17 syllables. Five in the first line, seven in the middle, and five in the tertiary line. I thought of substituting shapes for the syllables and instead of writing a poem with iii sentences and 17 syllables, I made a sculpture with 3 vertical sections and 17 shapes, five in the bottom section, seven in the middle, and five in the top section. The three sections are separated past horizontal, linear flat rectangles, my version of lined paper.

"I thought that making a series of sculptures that shared a mutual structural theme would unite them along their shared route on Broadway. I as well wanted to run into how much variety I could create inside a given fix of rules. Five sculptures are based on the haiku idea and the other four sculptures have similar stacked elements, and I think they structurally relate to the others."

A cell phone tour, in English language and Spanish, which will include the artist'south commentary, is funded by Con Edison.

The exhibition includes: 12-12-12 at Columbus Circle; Mondrian at Dante Square; Complex Apartment at 72nd Street; Figure 8 at 79th Street; Open House at 96th Street; Loftier Rising at 103rd Street; Open Optics at 117th Street; Intersection at Montefiore Foursquare, After Rome at 157th Street.

This exhibition is presented by the Broadway Malls Association and Morrison Gallery.

Christian Jankowski, Dali Woman, 2006-2007. Photo by Seong Kwon, courtesy of Public Art Fund. Courtesy Regan Projects, Los Angeles; Galerie Martin Klosterfelde, Berlin, and Lisson Gallery, London.

Christian Jankowski, Living Sculptures
November 24, 2008 to May 27, 2009
Doris Freedman Plaza
Cardinal Park, Manhattan

Please notation: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.

Description:

Christian Jankowski's Living Sculptures consists of three bronze sculptures inspired by the tradition of professional street performers who pose motionless equally historical or fantastical figures for spectators to photograph. Specifically these works depict inspiration from three street performers Jankowski observed and selected from a public thoroughfare in Barcelona, who regularly present themselves as the likenesses of a Roman legionnaire who refers to himself as "Caesar," the revolutionary leader Che Guevara, and an enigmatic woman inspired by a figure known as "The Anthropomorphic Cabinet Adult female," created by artist Salvador Dali.

Jankowski'southward sculptures are, in essence, statues of people performing equally statues. Representing mod day figures, both real and imagined, they are exceptionally life–similar, though solid bronze in their composition. Their human being scale and figurative representation beckon viewers to come up shut, consider whether they are existent people, pose next to them for photos, and perchance even get out a few coins in appreciation.

This is a project of the Public Art Fund.

Jean Dubuffet, Four Sculptures

Jean Dubuffet, Four Sculptures
September twenty, 2003 to November 14, 2003
betwixt 54th & 57th Streets
Park Avenue Malls, Manhattan

Delight annotation: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.

Description:
The current exhibitions of Jean Dubuffet sculptures on Park Avenue includes Redingoton at 54th Street, Tour aux scriptions at 55th Street, Tour aux membrures at 56th Street, and Calamuchon at 57th Street. The sculptures - conceived past the artist in 1973 and cast in 2002 in accordance with the Dubuffet Foundation and the creative person's estate - are part of the artist's Hourloupe wheel, a series of works characterized by the utilize of cerise, white, and blue with sinuous black lines. A prolific creative person in the post-war era, Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) rejected traditional notions of beauty in favor of an artful inspired by grafitti and the artwork of children and the mentally ill. A painter and a sculptor, Dubuffet referred to his style as "Art Brut," a term he coined in the belatedly 1940s.

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Photo credit: Etienne Frossard

Deborah Kass, OY/YO
Nov 11, 2015 to August, 2016
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn
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Delight annotation: This is a past exhibit that is no longer installed in the park.

Description:

Walking the line betwixt respectful homage and brazen cribbing, Brooklyn-based creative person Deborah Kass mimics and reworks the signature styles of iconic 20th century male person artists —including Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Ed Ruscha, and Robert Indiana – often with a feminist twist. OY/YO is sourced from urban and Brooklyn slang, the statement "I am" in Spanish, and the popular Yiddish expression, as a riff on Ruscha'due south iconic word paintings.

OY/YO has been a pregnant and reoccurring motif in Kass' piece of work since its first advent in 2011, taking form in paintings, prints, and tabletop sculptures. Prepare aslope the iconic bridges of Brooklyn's waterfront and visible to viewers from Manhattan, Brooklyn Bridge Park's Primary Street lawn is an apt location for a monumental installation of OY/YO. Similar to the City of New York's "Leaving Brooklyn: Oy Vey!" sign at the Williamsburg Span and the "Leaving Brooklyn: Fuhgeddaboudit" sign on the BQE, OY/YO references Brooklyn'south ethnic communities with whimsy and warmth.

Commissioned by Two Trees and presented in partnership with Brooklyn Bridge Park, the piece of work will exist on view through August 2016 and is presented on the occasion of the artist's exhibition No Kidding opening at Paul Kasmin Gallery in Chelsea December 9, 2015. For more information about this artwork, please visit the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy's website.

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