Press Release (pdf) | Participating Artists | Sponsorship | Location

October 26, 2005 – September 10, 2006
At MetroTech Center in Brooklyn

Public Art Fund is proud to present a new exhibition of contemporary art at MetroTech Center. Material World features new commissions by Rachel Foullon, Corin Hewitt, Matthew Day Jackson, Peter Kreider, and Mamiko Otsubo. The works, which range from personal monuments to visionary landscapes, are each made using materials that directly relate to or are inspired by the artist’s chosen subject matter.

	Rachel Foullon - Housescape Foullon’s installation suggests a surreal modern-day homestead inserted into an urban landscape. Housescape is composed of five objects: a blue-and-white two-story beach house, an orange camping tent, a weather-beaten horse trough, a parquet dance floor, and a satellite dish. More about this project
	Corin Hewitt - Legacy Legacy is a 21-foot-long rainbow emerging from a planter on MetroTech Commons. The rainbow’s seven bands are cast from actual debris collected on seven consecutive days by the city’s street sweeping machines. More about this project
	Matthew Day Jackson – Staff of Lady Liberty Standing eleven feet tall, Staff of Lady Liberty resembles a single tree branch adorned with representations of mythological animals, historic episodes, and portraits of progressive figures. The staff is rich in symbolism, celebrating grass roots movements, utopian mysticism, and ancient wisdom about nature. More about this project
	Peter Kreider – an upward-down an upward-down is a colonnade of several unusually tall, identical fire hydrants, designed in the same classically inspired vein as New York City’s standard-issue street fixtures. More about this project
	Mamiko Otsubo - Untitled Otsubo’s installation for the lobby of MetroTech One consists of three separate, untitled sculptures, which together transform the corporate space into an abstracted landscape. More about this project

Sponsorship
Material World at MetroTech Center is part of an ongoing program organized by the Public Art Fund and sponsored by MetroTech Commons Associates, an organization that consists of MetroTech companies Bear Stearns & Company, Forest City Ratner Companies, JPMorganChase, KeySpan, and Polytechnic University. Special thanks to Forest City Ratner Companies and First New York Management.

Corin Hewitt’s Legacy is a project of the Public Art Fund program In the Public Realm, which is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, A State Agency, the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President, The Greenwall Foundation, The Silverweed Foundation, The JPMorgan Chase Foundation, and friends of the Public Art Fund.

Special thanks to the Foundation for Contemporary Arts for additional funding toward the completion and installation of Matthew Day Jackson's sculpture, Staff of Lady Liberty.

Special thanks to Perry Rubenstein Gallery.

Location
MetroTech Center is located in Downtown Brooklyn between Jay Street and Flatbush Avenue at Myrtle Avenue.

Viewing hours are dawn to dusk daily for outdoor works, Monday through Friday 8am to 6pm for Mamiko Otsubo’s sculptures in One MetroTech.

Subway: A, C, F to Jay Street/Borough Hall, exit at Myrtle Promenade; R to Lawrence Street.