New York City is not a landscape, and the difference is instructive. Steel, stone, river water, and light that reaches street level only through the gaps between very tall things. None of it was built for contemplation; it was built for load, for traffic, for getting people across water. What it does to a person standing underneath it early in the morning was never part of the plan, and is the reason I keep going back.
The works in this gallery look closely at the city's bridges and interiors: the cables and arches of the Brooklyn Bridge, the towers of the Manhattan Bridge rising out of fog and framed from the streets of DUMBO, the oculus of the Fulton Center, the arcade beneath Bethesda Terrace in Central Park, and the skyline at night from across the water. Many are in black and white. They suit offices, conference rooms, and lobbies, as well as city apartments, where the architecture on the wall answers the architecture outside the window.
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