Project in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Scroll down for more
image from radiance
Excerpt From description by Artbridge: This site-responsive artwork is made of 1000+ cardboard tiles that coalesce to form the face of Robert Moses – a controversial urban planner who displaced a minimum of 250,000 New Yorkers over his 44 year career, the majority of whom were Brown and Black.
PTSD is signaling Moses’ lasting legacy of racism and displacement by situating their artwork on a fence along Hicks Street that runs above the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway – one of 16 expressways that Moses built in NYC. The BQE effectively divides Red Hook, a historically working class neighborhood with the largest public housing development in NYC, from the wealthier neighborhoods of Cobble Hill and Brooklyn Heights. True to their interest in examining the built environment and its impact on community wellbeing, the art collective titled their piece PTSD "z60.9 Moderate.” This title is a direct reference to the classification system used in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) to designate mental health conditions. This DSM code designates a “problem related to environment, unspecified.”
z60.9 Moderate
Radiance (Z59.2)
Created in collaboration with Youth Organizers at Red Hook Initiative, the artwork takes shape as a series of diamonds made out of a mosaic of tiles.
Like diamonds that glow in a mine, the youth at Red Hook Houses are bright leaders in their community. Just as a mosaic is formed from many pieces that create a greater whole, the work of the Youth Organizers accumulates from many small actions that support their larger community.
This exhibition was produced by #ArtBridge in partnership with #NYCHA (@nychagram), the Red Hook East Resident Association, Red Hook Initiative (@rhookinitiative) and Pioneer Works (@pioneerworks). The program is made possible by the New York City Artist Corps and the #CityCanvas pilot program — initiatives of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (@nyculture) and the Mayor’s Office (@nycmayorsoffice).
A portrait of Sheryl Nash Chisholm, a tireless ally to the young people of Red Hook, accompanies the mosaic diamonds as both tribute and inspiration.
This exhibition was produced by #ArtBridge in partnership with #NYCHA (@nychagram), the Red Hook East Resident Association, Red Hook Initiative (@rhookinitiative) and Pioneer Works (@pioneerworks). The program is made possible by the New York City Artist Corps and the #CityCanvas pilot program — initiatives of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (@nyculture) and the Mayor’s Office (@nycmayorsoffice).
Radiance Sheryl
An experimental idea for a fence. We replaced the cold and metallic elements of chain link with a soft and fuzzy material.
a new fence
A part of our work with Youth Organizers at Red Hook Initiative, this was part of the Present Power/Future Hope show at Clemente Gallery in Downtown NYC.