Along the walls of the B/D train station on 167th Street, Rico Gatson created “Beacons,” eight portraits of Black and Latino leaders with connections to the Bronx.
He modeled each mosaic on black-and-white photographs, adding bright rays “coming out of a Pan-African sensibility of black, red and green,” Gatson has said, “but expanding with yellow and orange and sometimes evolving into silver and gold.”Ann Hamilton’s “CHORUS” (2018) is a white marble mosaic of words taken from the preamble of the Declaration of Independence and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, “a song stitched step by step” along a wall of the No.
1 train platform at the World Trade Center Cortlandt station.
Persons:
Rico Gatson, Black, Gatson, ” Ann Hamilton’s, “
Organizations:
United, World Trade Center
Locations:
“, Independence, World Trade Center Cortlandt