Maria Elena González Magic Carpet / Home
About the Exhibition
Maria Elena González’s Magic Carpet/Home replicates the floor plan of a six-room unit in Red Hook East Housing, originally designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Complete with the outlines for a kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms, and closets, this artwork visually transforms the apartment layout into a flying carpet. González (b. 1957, Havana, Cuba) used standard playground surface material to construct her creative rendition of an apartment fusing fantasy with daily New York living.
Photo Gallery
Magic Carpet/Home is a project of the Public Art Fund’s In the Public Realm program, a series of site-specific proposals and projects by emerging New York artists.
In the Public Realm is supported with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency, and the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, and through generous support from the Greenwall Foundation, the Heathcote Foundation, the Silverweed Foundation and friends of the Public Art Fund.
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