A Concrete Canvas

Posted on June 3, 2008 by


Barrier
Design by Pedro Delgado, an illustrator at Grey Group Worldwide, to be painted Tuesday on the concrete Jersey barriers lining the bicycle path around High Bridge Park.

No one will ever mistake Jersey barriers for works of art, but a fledgling effort is under way to make them a bit more aesthetically palatable.

Today, a series of geometric, layered waves — Frank Stella meets Marimekko — will be applied to 1,900 feet of concrete barriers on the bicycle path along High Bridge Park, north of 155th Street, paralleling the Harlem River Drive.

Read the rest: NY Times

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