#parksideportals

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Fall in New York City, as seen in Joyce Kozloff’s “Parkside Portals” at the 86th Street (B/C) station on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Kozloff uses varied images and views to create her series of mosaics that showcase the majestic architecture and foliage of the neighborhood.

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Joyce Kozloff’s “Parkside Portals” (2018) at 86 Street (B,C) perfectly captures that late-March feeling of transitioning from winter to spring. Her decorative details from neighborhood buildings are in counterpoint to park views that will soon be a distant memory as green returns!

Photos by Tom Vinetz.

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Artist Joyce Kozloff has created new artwork, “Parkside Portals”, for the newly improved 86th Street (B,C) station. The six colorful glass mosaic and ceramic tile murals offer a view of the Upper West Side through a micro and macro lens. The perspective shifts from aerial views of Central Park West using Google Earth technology, to a zoom on the lavish design elements found on the neighborhood’s majestic building facades, which Kozloff embellishes with her eye for color and knowledge of the community, from the decade she lived on the Upper West Side. Framing these details are the trees of Central Park during the four seasons. The artwork pays homage to the architecture of Central Park West, and its beaux arts and art deco ornamentation, and includes a map of #SenecaVillage, a 5-acre settlement founded in 1825 of mostly African American landowners, the first such community in the city. It was situated where Central Park now lies. Kozloff collaborated closely with Miotto Mosaics and Travisanutto, Giovanni SRL who translated her intricate paintings into glazed tiles and glass mosaics.