96th street Aperture 2014

96th Street Aperture
Photo Credit Mark Woods, Video courtesy of the artist

96th Street Aperture, Installation View, View of a sculpture in the form of a historical marker. A circular aperture allows people to see through the plaque. People look at the artwork as they pass by. — 96th Street Aperture, Installation View

96th Street Aperture 2014
Installation dimensions: Variable
Plaque dimensions 24 x 36”
Plaque: bronze, lacquer. Support: rectangular aluminum tubing, fastening hardware

Installation view: 96th and Broadway, NYC.
Installed as part of Marlborough Gallery’s Broadway Morey Boogie. Collaboration with Donna Stonecipher.

A double-sided historical marker commemorating the flow of activity at a NYC subway station in real time. 96th Street Aperture draws attention to the “memory frame,” an idea Druecke discusses with public art historian Amanda Douberley in Wiley Blackwell’s Companion to Public Art, 2016.