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THE VIEW FROM HERE

Submitted by Barbara Ellmann

Client: Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)

Location: New York, NY, United States

Completion date: 2007

Artwork budget: $90,000

Project Team

Artist

Barbara Ellmann

Public Art Agent

MTA Arts For Transit Program

Industry Resource

Willet Hauser Architectural Glass

Overview

Seven faceted glass windscreens commissioned by the NYC MTA’s Arts For Transit Program for the elevated Van Siclen Avenue Station on the Jamaica Line in Brooklyn, NY.

Goals

These abstract images relate to what is observable from the platform with shapes that evoke doors and windows, grouped buildings, and intersecting streets of the surrounding neighborhood.

Process

Fabricated by Willet Hauser Architectural Glass.