Our last stop for the day is Chauncey Street, where artist Maria Dominguez created sixteen 13″ x 13″ paintings, which have been translated into faceted glass. Its complexity is nothing to sneeze at – a total of 75 panels were installed at the station… ensuring that no matter which way the sun is facing, at least somewhere there will be colored light shining through.Ĭhauncey Street Artist: Maria Dominguez Title: El Views Perhaps the most attractive part is the long pedestrian walkway above, which has long strings of colored glass on either side. Situated at the crossroads of several subway lines, the art at Broadway Junction appears in various locations throughout the complex. Twenty-one faceted glass panels serve as windscreens spread along the station’s entire elevated platform.īroadway Junction Artist: Al Loving Title: Brooklyn, New Morning Influenced by the geometric shapes visible from the platform – buildings, windows, doors, brickwork – the landscape has been rendered into an abstract geometric view that splashes the concrete of the platform with color.
We’ll start at Van Siclen Avenue – the furthest station from Manhattan that currently has glasswork on display… Van Siclen Avenue Artist: Barbara Ellmann Title: The View From Hereīold, bright colors await you on the platform of Van Siclen Avenue.
Today we’ll be visiting three stations on the line – Van Siclen Avenue, Broadway Junction, and Chauncey Street – to check out the Arts for Transit. While some of the stations we visited in the Bronx had only a few panels of art, several of the J line stations have art on a significant scale – Broadway Junction, for example, has a total of 75 faceted glass panels. Though a few of the works installed on the line are currently undergoing conservation, there are plenty of stations still worth visiting with attractive art. Continuing my exploration in search of attractive glasswork on the New York City subway leads me to Brooklyn and the J Line.
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