Client: Madison Square Park Conservancy

Location: New York, NY, United States

Completion date: 2017

Project Team

Client

Madison Square Park Conservancy

Madison Square Park Conservancy

Industry Resource

UAP New York

UAP (Urban Art Projects)

Overview

Internationally renowned artist Erwin Redl collaborated with UAP and Madison Square Park Conservancy on a major temporary public art installation for the Mad. Sq. Art. Program in New York City. Redl’s installation titled Whiteout features a luminous white carpet of LED lights suspended across the central oval lawn. UAP worked with the artist to develop and fabricate hundreds of transparent white spheres, each embedded with a programmed LED light and suspended 2 feet above ground from a grid of slender steel poles and cabling. The spheres move in response to the environmental conditions and are animated with a pattern.

Additional Information

Since 2004, 35 artists have been commissioned to develop site specific installations for this free contemporary art program including Antony Gormley, Sol LeWitt and Richard Deacon. This collaboration with the Conservancy and Redl showcases UAP’s expertise in creating technically complex, world class site-specific public art.