DeKalb Improvisation, 2001-2004
South Mezzanine, DeKalb Avenue Subway Station, Brooklyn, NY.
This is the subway destination for Long Island University and the Kumble Theatre for the Performing Arts, BRIC Studio, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), and Junior’s Diner, home of the world’s most famous cheesecakes and desserts.
Glass mosaics
7 feet 5 inches x 66 feet 9 ½ inches (11 feet, 5 inches center) (226.1 x 2035.8 cm (348 cm center)
Concept Summary: A celebration of the historical and energetic spirit of Downtown Brooklyn through a vibrant collage of colors, shapes and familiar local iconography which include the stations subway lines (D, M, N, R and Q), the local zip code (718) and the local area code (11217).
The King and Queen motifs symbolize the final destinations of the subway – Kings County and Queens County.
Fabrication of mosaics by Franz Mayer of Munich
