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MTA Arts & Design Commission

MTA Art and Design
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Vast, in three panels

In 2008, Callie Danae Hirsch was awarded an
Arts for Transit Commission for the
@ 105th St Beach Station, Rockaway NY
Completed: 2011

Includsion in the MTA Permanent Public Art Collection

105th Beach Station
Rockaway Beach - A train


Glass Fabricator:
Erskin Mitchell, Baton Rouge, LA

The Wave

The Wave, Rockaway Paper, 2012

MTA Hirsch


Egg Masses
Egg Masses

Jellyfish
Jellyfish

Included in NYC , MTA Arts & Design art collection

MTA commission

photo: Lydia Bradshaw, MTA Arts & Transit

MTA Artist Portrait

photo: Betsy White

MTA postcard



MTA art panel

photo: Lydia Bradshaw,
MTA Arts for Transit

MTA subway map

Beach 105th Street Seaside Station
Rockaway, NY

Click to see proposal sketches

 

Vast, in three panels

(New York, NY) In May 2011, the MTA Arts for Transit program completed the installation of “Vast” by artist Callie Danae Hirsch at the 105 Beach Street Station on the A subway lines in Rockaway Beach, NY.

Commissioned by the MTA's permanent Art & Design Program in 2008, Ms. Hirsch collaborated with glass fabricator, Erksin Mitchell, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to translate her seascape designs into 15, one-inch thick faceted glass panels cast in epoxy resin.  The project, which included the renovation of the 105th Street station, has been three years in the making.

The panels are installed in the elevated tracks at 105 Beach Street Station, allowing the sunlight to stream through them. The sounds of the ocean can be heard a few blocks away.

“It is a wonderful honor to have my art become one with the Rockaway Landscape. The ocean is one of my most desirable places to be and my work attempts to bring sea life into our scope of vision. The sea is teaming with life, much of which we can only begin to imagine. I hope ‘Vast’ will encourage viewers to think about the sea and their importance. May the facination continue throughout generations.

For more information about the MTA Arts for Transit installation of “Vast”
please email to: callie@callieart.com

 


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Content and all images copyright ©Callie Hirsch
2012