About the Exhibition
Enter Bryant Park from 40th Street at the back of the New York Public Library and one will be face-to-face with an arch constructed from brick-shaped wire-mesh units. Over a period of six weeks, Kit-Yin Snyder (b. 1934, Guangzhou, China), a New York City–based artist, built and developed a sculptural environment that resembles architectural fragments. What the complete structure looks like is, in part, influenced by the public that Kit-Yin Snyder involves in the project.
The arch, erected on a half-hexagonal cinderblock base, is joined by other traditional architectural elements such as windows, archways, and pillars. Made with ¼” anodized aluminum wire mesh, the sculpture, under some conditions, appears to be light and airy. Other times it is solid and imposing.