Showing posts with label Metro Tech Center. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metro Tech Center. Show all posts

Friday, September 16, 2011

"The Balanced Cylinders", Sculpture by Paul Sisko At Polytechnic Institute of NYU

This sculpture is called "The Balanced Cylinders" by Paul Sisko. The dramatic two-ton, twenty-eight-foot sculpture is composed of interlocking red wedges of steel and is situated on Jay Street Plaza, near the entrance to the Polytechnic Institute of NYU, 6 Metro Tech Center in Brooklyn. The image was made with an Apple iPhone 4.

Friday, September 2, 2011

Downtown Brooklyn's Public Art: "Alligator" By Tom Otterness

One of the permanent installations at MetroTech Commons in downtown Brooklyn's Metro Tech Center is "Alligator" (1996) by sculptor Tom Otterness. The work depicts an alligator emerging from a manhole to bite down on a man with a dollar sign on his head and a mock lamppost crowned with a globe.