Press Release
Artist Bio
Sponsorship
Location

aluminum and Plexiglas

May 17 - June 23, 2002

Brooklyn Public Library
(Central Library, Grand Army Plaza)

With Sixteen Scenarios, Jonah Freeman created a mirrored labyrinth in the Grand Lobby of Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library. Interested in the ways our ideas and emotions are influenced by contemporary architectural spaces, Freeman based his design for Sixteen Scenarios on a generic model for metropolitan steel-and-glass architecture, creating an aluminum and Plexiglas structure with multiple doorways, interlinking passageways and atrium-like rooms. Inside Sixteen Scenarios, a variety of neon lighting fluctuated and faded intermittently, suggesting a range of possible theatrical experiences, similar to those found in casinos, shopping malls and movie theaters.

Artist Bio
Jonah Freeman has had solo shows at Edward Mitterand in Geneva, Switzerland and Andrew Kreps, New York, and in the project room at Artists Space in New York. He has also been included in group exhibitions at Danese Gallery, Matthew Marks Gallery, and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York City. He attended Parsons School of Design and received a BFA from New York University, Tisch School for the Arts.

Sponsorship
Sixteen Scenarios is a project of the Public Art Fund, commissioned through In the Public Realm, a program of site specific proposals and projects by New York artists.

In the Public Realm is supported with public funds 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, and the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President, and with generous support from, The Greenwall Foundation, The Silverweed Foundation, The JPMorgan Chase Foundation, and friends of the Public Art Fund.

Sixteen Scenarios was made possible with the cooperation and support of the Brooklyn Public Library.

Location
Sixteen Scenarios was located in the Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library at Grand Army Plaza..