Michael Kelly Williams
#2 and #5, 1992
2 glass mosaics, 7' x 3' 10" and 4' x 5'
Metropolitan Transportation Authority/
Arts for Transit

Michael Kelly William's mosaics, The El #2 and The El #5 (1992) at the Intervale subway station, draw their imagery from the experience of the elevated train—the movement, the sound, and the sense of time, as well as the visual cityscape and lights. The improvisational rhythms of jazz are also a source for the work. The subway mosaics are based on monoprints that combine the viscosity technique and collage. Williams uses discarded litho plates, as well as metal sheets that he often finds on the street. He engraves, bends, and punches the metal to create his abstracted city views. More about the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Arts for Transit program

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Installation view of #5 at
Intervale Avenue Station, Mezzanine
7/29/2000. Photo copyright 2000 by
David Pirmann.

Print conceptualization for The El # 2