Riverside Park Art

Art Alert!

Untitled (The Grates), by Elana Herzog.

Detail of On, Under and Between by Emil Lukas

North Overlook by McKendree Key

Silver Tunnel by Mischa Kuball

This year is the 20th anniversary of the Riverside Park Fund, the organization that supports the park.  To celebrate, the fund is sponsoring the park's first ever public art exhibit, Studio in the park.  There are eleven different works placed in the park from 72nd to 145th Streets.  The last photo, Silver Tunnel, is quite a sight but was falling apart on the first day of the exhibit.  The On, Under and Between work consists of four big pieces of cast concrete that pull double duty as benches.  The tops of the pieces have designs embedded in them.  When I stopped by the artist, Emil Lukas, was there handing out sheets of paper and pencils to people interested in making a rubbing of the surface.

As I was taking pictures of the art several people stopped and asked me if I was a professional photographer.   I don't know if it was because I was using a tripod or the subject matter.  If only they had seen my experiments with long exposure close-ups of the river...

Studio in the park remains in the park all summer.