SOUTH BRONX WATERFRONT SAGAS
BRONX MUSEUM
On view: November 2, 2016 - February 19, 2017
Torn edges of canvas sections stretch 24.5ft across the Museum lobby wall. The tactile sensibility of unexpected materials are posed against the veracity of photo-transferred images, and layered with acrylic and pastel revealing deteriorating remains of abandoned South Bronx waterfront areas, punctuated by multiple power transfer stations, railroads and refuse transfer stations. The torn edges of bifurcated sheets of canvas and shards of information echo a broken South Bronx history, an urban renewal tragedy, in an area that was once the retreat of choice for fresh air, heath and greenery. 24.5ft x 4ft • 2017
Bifurcated sheets of canvas with torn edges suggest the beautiful open vistas now inaccessible to the residents of the Mott Haven and Port Morris areas of the South Bronx, abandoned and dominated by deteriorating remains, rotting remnants of piers, power stations and City Waste transfer stations.
The unusual materials and torn canvas edges convey with tactile sensibility the contradiction documented with photo-transferred images, layered with acrylic and pastel. Materials and image fuse revealing a broken South Bronx history, an urban renewal tragedy, an area once the retreat of choice for fresh air, heath and greenery. The shards of information and vistas evoke the former Port Morris harbor named after Governor Morris a signatory of the constitution. There barges once docked and youth once swam off a pier in the East River.
South Bronx Waterfront Sagas (detail), canvas, pastel, acrylic, collage, photo transfers, 24.5ft x 6ft
South Bronx Waterfront Sagas (detail)
Bronx Museum: Lobby Installation, canvas, pastel, acrylic, collage, photo transfers, 24.5ft x 6ft
South Bronx Waterfront Sagas
Bronx Museum: Lobby installation, Opening night, canvas, pastel, acrylic, collage, photo transfers, 24.5ft x 6ft