Kit-Yin Snyder Artist in Residence
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.
Photo Gallery
Kit-Yin Snyder, assisted by Jeff Simpson and Kim Snyder, is building the installation as part of an ongoing artist-in-residence project co-sponsored by the Bryant Park Restoration Corporation and the Public Art Fund. It has been made possible through the cooperation of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, Con Edison, and Newsweek.
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