The Wall Project


Karen Bausman Creates Monumental Sculpture for Meatpacking District Installation

The Wall Project to open in 2012

NEW YORK CITY (July 6, 2011)  – Artist Karen Bausman has received the New York Department of Transportation’s site approval for her public installation The Wall Project.  The DOT has approved the project for a 2012 opening on Gansevoort Plaza near the main entrance to the High Line Park.

Ms. Bausman’s monumental work, made of a series of thirty hip-height and interconnected walls made of precisely cut layers of turf, re-imagines lower Manhattan topography prior to urban planning interventions, including, most significantly, the work of the 1811 Planning Commission, which imposed an urban grid upon generations of organically-developed Native American footpaths.

“The Wall Project really takes me into new territory,” Bausman stated. “For the first time, I’ll be looking to translate forms not just from two dimensions into three but from small-scale maquettes into monumental installations using cumulative layering processes rather than ones traditionally associated with building.”

The Wall Project is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).