Monday 6 January 2020

Metropolitan Transportation Authority Murals



In the greater New York area, more than 8 million people use the subways, commuter trains and buses of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) each day to navigate the busy city.

The founders of the New York City subway believed every design element in the system should show respect to its customers and enhance the experience. Continuing with that tradition, the MTA launched an Arts & Design division during a massive rebuilding of the system in the 1980s. This division oversees the selection of artists and installations permanently installed throughout the MTA system, “creating a first-rate museum filled with more than 300 works by world famous, mid-career and emerging artists” and connecting commuters with people, sites and surrounding neighbourhoods.

As part of major renovations to nine stations along the Sea Beach Line in Brooklyn, artists were selected to create permanent artwork for inclusion in the station renovations. Four of the artists chosen for the Sea Beach Line projects—Sally Gil, Karen Margolis, Eamon Ore-Giron and Emilio Perez—selected Mosaicos Venecianos De México, a member of TCNA Mexico, to translate their designs into smalti (enamel glass mosaics). The pieces were fabricated with LATICRETE products and shipped to New York for their installation along the platforms at MTA New York City Transit Authority’s 86 Street, Avenue U, 18th Avenue and Bay Parkway stations.


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