Art Tribeca - Hot Pink in the Summertime

This Summer's art "Statuesque" at City Hall Park really punched up the colors. Hot pink and lime green. Best enjoyed with ice cream! Great bright cheery colors and animal shapes right alongside and in contrast to some blobby "anyone could do that" sculptures (I'm just jealous), and thrown in are some 'big foots'. Six artists in all from various countries.

Art Tribeca - Jeff Koons Potted Park

There is a small triangular park in my neighborhood at the Path Train entrance at the old World Trade Center. This is the beginning of where Greenwich Street starts going up the left hand side of the park, and West Broadway going up the right side of the park.

I've walked all around the park and there is no "name plaque" for the park that I could see and no plaque for what I believe is a Jeff Koons sculpture sitting in the middle of a fountain. I googled Koons and found a video of Jeff Koons at the dedication of the "Flower Baloon" sculpture at the park at WTC 7. So there we have our park name and sculpture identified.

All in all it is a pleasant stop with plenty of benches and suits enjoying their lunch break. Most all the flowers and greenery are in pots. I was wondering if the trees were actually connected to the real earth(?), or are they in giant pots as well,, maybe the whole park is sitting above a parking garage or such,, making the park one big pretty potted plant. Green is always good..

Art Tribeca - ...in the eye of the beholder

Artist: Robert Melee
December 19, 2008 to April 2009
City Hall Park, Manhattan

From the NYC Parks and Recreation website: The current exhibit by Robert Melee features immense forms that while amorphous and featureless, seem familiar in their generalized characteristics and poses–slouching, sitting, pointing, standing upright–but also retain a haunting sense of disguise and alluring somberness. more...

From City Hall News: The four hulking, amorphous sculptures that showed up in City Hall Park last December are not part of some effort by art-loving Mayor Michael Bloomberg (Ind.) to unload some of his collection to raise money for his re-election bid, but the latest installment from the Public Art Fund, scheduled to be in place through April. more...

From the Public Art Fund website: Through April 2009, Public Art Fund will present an exhibition of four large-scale figurative sculptures by New York-based artist Robert Melee at City Hall Park. Since 1978, Public Art Fund has presented 19 temporary exhibitions at this lower Manhattan location, including the work of Alexander Calder, Julian Opie and Roy Lichtenstein. more...

From Me: OK, so maybe I'm just jealous because my art isn't featured in City Hall Park (yet:-). Is it me or does this remind anyone else of wicker-wrapped Chianti wine bottles with lots of candle drippings alongside a plate of spaghetti? Putting these hulking, amorphous sculptures on large red checkered tablecloths would have set the picture "just right" for me.