The Fashion Center BID is pleased to present the Fashion Center Space for Public Art, a vibrant series of public window displays which showcase the work of local artists. There are three windows in the Space for Public Art series – 215 West 38th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenue), 34 West 38th Street and 36 West 38th Street (both of which are between 5th and 6th Avenue). Join us as we celebrate local talent!
NOW ON DISPLAY | Current Installations: Spring 2012
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PREVIOUS INSTALLATIONS
JAQ BELCHER at 215 West 38th Street
Selected Works
These works are created using a single sheet of paper, a pencil and an Exacto knife. The larger piece, titled Form is Empty 2011 comprises of 5832 cuts to create the field you see before you. The smaller works are from the Illusion series and have words embedded within, but only through the removal of paper around the text. ‘War’ is created with 1478 cuts and ‘Peace’ 1588 cuts. They are first drawn using a hard graphite pencil, then hand cut, counted and raised.
The exploration of these ideas began taking a visual direction as I was pondering the beauty of a single expanse of white paper. How can one enhance such a simple and beautiful void? And so the process of reduction was born with the resulting works being quietly patterned and complex. They are, a proclamation if you will, to the power of silence, and testify to the practice of ‘being’ in the moment and completely ‘present’.
www.jaqbelcher.com
JESSICA BAKER at 34 West 38th Street
‘Winter Look’
Winter Look is made entirely of materials found in nature and is intended to contrast with the surrounding windows filled with fashion accessories indicative of New York’s metropolitan “personality.”
Brooklyn-based artist Jessica Baker collects leaves, seeds, branches and other fallen materials from trees to create prints on paper, prints on leaves, two and three-dimensional work, and site-specific installations. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally.
LINDA PLOTKIN at 215 West 38th Street
‘Voices: Music Inspired Monotypes’
Above: Eburnia (2010) 30”x30”
The works in this space, titled Voices, are monotypes inspired by the relationship between harmony in music and harmony in color, a phenomenon realized when listening to the voices in a chorus performing music of the Renaissance. The large format prints were printed by Marina Ancona at 10 Grand Press, and the smaller format prints were printed by the artist at the Lower East Side Printshop. Linda Plotkin’s works are included in numerous private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and the Yale University of Art.
For more information about Linda Plotkin, visit: www.lindaplotkin.com
All ‘Voices’ 30″x30″ and larger printed by Marina Ancona at 10 Grand Press. Smaller versions printed by the artist at the Lower East Side Print Shop.
LINDA STILLMAN at 34 West 38th Street 
FREDERIC LERE at 36 West 38th Street | Visit Frederic Lere’s website 
EMERGING DESIGNER SERIES at 215 West 38th Street The Fashion Center celebrates local fashion talent by showcasing emerging designers all summer long in our Space for Public Art on 38th Street between 7th and 8th Avenue.
INGRID BAPTISTE
ingridbaptiste.com
Ingridbaptiste(at)gmail(dot)com Leatherthings / etsy.com Office 718.473.7890
CLARENCE BLACK
LINDSEY MULLHOLANDVisit Lindsey Mullholand’s website 
MARGARET ZOX BROWNVisit Margaret Zox Brown’s website 
SAYA WOOLFALKVisit Saya Woolfalk’s website 
MARJORIE LEE WOO 
HYPERGRAPHIA: Gwyneth Leech, The Cup Drawings Artist Gwyneth Leech, Presented by Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, at 215 West 38th Street 
XIN SONG at 36 West 38th Street 
FLYING SOLES AND PAINTINGS Mitchell Schorr & Lincoln’s NY at 215 West 38th Street 
COW PAINTINGS by Melinda Buie at 34 West 38th Street 
FASHION POLICE by Sali Taylor at 36 West 38th Street 
REPURPOSE, RECYCLE, REFLECT by LIM College’s Visual Presentation Class at 215 West 38th Street 
NANCI HERSH: Slowing Down to Catch 
SCOTT DUCE: In Public Series 
Please contact usto submit samples of your work for consideration in the Fashion Center Space for Public Art.