photo: Lydia Bradshaw,
MTA Arts for Transit

Beach 105th Street Seaside Station
Rockaway, NY

Click to see proposal sketches

Vast, in three panels

(New York, NY) In May 2011, the MTA Arts for Transit program completed the installation of “Vast” by artist Callie Danae Hirsch at the 105 Beach Street Station on the A subway lines in Rockaway Beach, NY.

Commissioned by the MTA's permanent Art & Design Program in 2008, Ms. Hirsch collaborated with glass fabricator, Erksin Mitchell, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to translate her seascape designs into 15, one-inch thick faceted glass panels cast in epoxy resin.  The project, which included the renovation of the 105th Street station, has been three years in the making.

The panels are installed in the elevated tracks at 105 Beach Street Station, allowing the sunlight to stream through them. The sounds of the ocean can be heard a few blocks away.

“It is a wonderful honor to have my art become one with the Rockaway Landscape. The ocean is one of my most desirable places to be and my work attempts to bring sea life into our scope of vision. The sea is teaming with life, much of which we can only begin to imagine. I hope ‘Vast’ will encourage viewers to think about the sea and their importance. May the facination continue throughout generations.

For more information about the MTA Arts for Transit installation of “Vast”
please email to: callie@callieart.com