Journeying Together: From Sunrise to Sunset (2023)
Location | 500 Broad St (at Bridge St)
LISTEN TO ME TALK ABOUT THIS PROJECT
Figures gather, symbolizing marginalized bodies, and are striped in the colors of the rising and setting sun. The stripes symbolize the artist’s own “hybridity,” as an Afro-Caribbean American, and the number of stripes correlate to measured time—24 hours, 7 days, and 12 months. Stripes also refer to societal division along lines of race, politics, and class, as well as flags, fences, borders, barcodes, and animals. This piece draws inspiration from the Harriet Tubman Monument Project and the Underground Railroad, telling a story of people marching and assembling, coming together to create community beneath the skies. Made possible by the Newark Artist Collaboration in partnership with Audible.
Photo credit: Rachel Fawn Alban
Traveling Along Horizons, (2023)
Location | NY Penn Station, Concourse Level, 33rd St. & 31st St.
Commission made possible by Art at Amtrak.
Curated and produced by Debra Simon Art Consulting
Installed and on view from August 2023 to January 2024.
Click on the Soundcloud below to hear me describe Traveling Along Horizons.
Image above: Traveling Along Horizons at NY Penn Station’s concourse, 8th Ave & 31 Street entrance
Image above: Traveling Along Horizons at NY Penn Station’s concourse.
New Terminal A, Newark Liberty International Airport (2022)
Next time you fly in or out of the New Terminal A, Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), on American, United Express, JetBlue or AirCanada … you may be able to see my commissioned diptych, Measured Sunrise, Measure Sunset, up in the concourse.
Four Corners Public Arts (2021)
Read about the project and the meaning behind my mural Rising Up
Photo Credit: Angel Bellaran, Courtesy Project for Empty Space/Four Corners Public Art