Gillian Wearing Celebrates Diane Arbus with her Monument at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza

 

 

 

Image Credit Gillian Wearing, Diane Arbus, 2021 Bronze, oil paint Presented by Public Art Fund at Doris C.Freedman Plaza, New York City, October 20, 2021 to August 14, 2022 © GillianWearing.Courtesy of Maureen Paley, London, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York and Regen Projects, Los Angeles Photo: Nicholas Knight, Courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY.

Public Art Fund is pleased to present British conceptual artist Gillian Wearing’s life-size bronze sculpture Diane Arbus—a tribute to the legendary photographer. Arbus was a lifelong New Yorker and often frequented Central Park, where she made photographs of everyday people. Wearing’s sculpture is on view in Doris C. Freedman Plaza at the southeast entrance to the park. It depicts Arbus with her finger on the shutter button of her iconic twin lens camera, as she might have been seen in the 1950s and 60s.

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