The glass and marble form merges with the bronze. This form is embedded in a bronze cast piece of an organism known as Pando found in Utah's Fishlake National Forest. This Tuckahoe marble is encased inside of molten glass, generating a transparent, crystalline form. This historic Tuckahoe marble has mostly been quarried but there were remains in a former marble quarry turned Marriott Suites construction site in Tuckahoe, New York. Tuckahoe marble became extremely popular in the early 1800s and was used to build Borough Hall, the Washington Memorial Arch in Washington Square, and more. The Roots of Tuckahoe Marble is an 8 foot-tall, public Tuckahoe marble, bronze, and glass sculpture. Green Playground, Brooklyn Map/Directions (in Google Maps)
Joel Artista + Brownsville Houses NeighborhoodStat Team, Unity - Golden Days, 2021ĭr. This exhibition is presented by worthless studios. This piece is one of the five created by the project, each installed in a different borough of New York City. Arts not-for-profit worthless studios collected over 200 boards of plywood and initiated an open call for artists, eventually selecting five local makers to participate in a unifying public art project across all five boroughs of New York.
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The Plywood Protection Project is an initiative to collect the plywood used by NYC businesses to board up their windows during the protests of 2020 and redistribute it to artists, extending and repurposing the life of this material. Their work will be shown in a group exhibition responding to the Black lives Matter movement, in conjunction with the installation of KaN+Mardok’s sculptures at Poe Park in the Bronx. The team has also collaborated with the Bronx River Art Center on a program focused on public art and activism, offered to a team of young adults who are creating their own sculptures and photographs. As people walk through the portals they’re transported into the energy of the protests of 2020: the unified experience of citizens across ethnicities and genders fighting for freedom and justice for Black lives.
This interactive installation of multiple cut out figures made of plywood are applied with collage and photographs from Mardok’s photography project.