‘Street Cathedral’
art gives chance to
refl ect on Varick
One of the sculptures in the “Street Cathedral”
art piece.
BY GABE HERMAN
A new art installation
went up last month
in Hudson Square
that features geometric,
translucent 3-D sculptures
mounted on light
poles on Varick Street.
Five pieces make up
the installation, which
is called “Street Cathedral”
and interacts with
changing light to refl ect
colors and shapes onto
the nearby streets. The
art piece is from the
Hudson Square Business
Improvement District
(BID) and will be up until
next October.
“Hudson Square BID
is proud to bring ‘Street
Cathedral’ to our neighborhood,”
said Ellen
Baer, CEO and president
of the BID. “Created to
evoke the same magic
quality of stained glass,
these dynamic sculptures
provide pedestrians
with a new lens through
which to view their daily
landscape.”
The artists, Claudia
Ravaschiere and Michael
Moss, told the Villager
by email that the art was
designed with the neighborhood
in mind.
“First and foremost
our work is inspired by
the neighborhood and
site that we are making
the art for,” the artists
said. “It is our hope that
the art will create a reappraisal
of everyday urban
structures: the things
that we pass as we walk
COURTESY HUDSON SQUARE BID
through neighborhoods,
bringing a surprising
element into the urban
scape.
“Street Cathedral utilizes
daylight and the urban
structures of streetlights
to impart color and
shape into the neighborhood
street life. They are
constructed three dimensionally,
and intended to
expand the fi eld of vision.
A kaleidoscope of
colors invites the viewer
to interact with light as
the daylight shifts and
changes throughout the
day.”
The fi ve locations of
the light poles along
Varick Street are: between
Canal and Grand,
Watts-Broome, Broome-
Dominick, Dominick-
Spring, and Downing-
Carmine.
Ravaschiere and Moss
said there is value to
making public art.
“The aspect that we
love most about doing art
for public spaces is that it
takes art onto the streets
where everyone can experience
it,” they said,
“and hopefully bring a
shared encounter and joy
as people meet the art in
unexpected places.
“We believe that art in
the public realm enables
viewers to re-imagine the
spaces that they see every
day,” the artists added. “It
can break up our loneliness,
connect us to our
surroundings and show
us another perspective of
our environment.”
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