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paint, baseball bases

January - March 1998

9th Avenue and 22nd Street

Along 22nd Street and 9th Avenue, Kirsten Mosher's Ball Park Traffic merged a busy intersection with a traditional baseball diamond--equipped with regulation home plate and bases, a backstop, pitcher's mound, and base lines. The focal point of Mosher's piece was the backstop, created by inverting the existing fence that forms the corner of the Chelsea Garden Center and mounting Home plate onto the sidewalk. As pedestrians crossed the street between Home plate and either first or third base, the converted crosswalks extended onto the sidewalk to form base lines marking the boundaries of play.

Artist Bio
Kirsten Mosher's art draws attention to the quiet and sometimes hidden systems and patterns that govern our everyday lives. She has had solo exhibitions at AC Project Room in New York, and at Villa Arson in Nice, France as well as participated in group exhibitions at Museum Quarter Kunstraum in Vienna, Austria, Centre d'art contemporain de Quimper in Quimper, France and Galleri Nicolai Wallner in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Sponsorship
Ball Park Traffic is a project of Public Art Fund's In the Public Realm program, a series of site-specific proposals and projects by emerging New York artists.

In the Public Realm is supported with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency, the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, and through the generous support from the Greenwall Foundation, the Heathcote Foundation, the Silverweed Foundation and friends of the Public Art Fund.

Ball Park Traffic was made possible through the cooperation of David Protell of Chelsea Garden Center, Community Board #4, and the Department of Transportation.

Location
Ball Park Traffic was located on 9th Avenue and 22nd Street.