Denver’s Robischon artist Ana María Hernando counteracts the harsh NYC winter with a bright, vividly hued large scale installation in the center of Manhattan. Her outdoor exhibition ‘To Let the Sky Know/Dejar que el cielo sepa,’ currently on view at Madison Square Park is featured on Hyperallergic.com in the article ‘New Fluffy Tulle Artwork Livens Up a Gray Manhattan’. Hernando implants oversized proliferating panels of tulle, a material typically expected in an intimate, domestic setting into the public urban space with an enlightening poetic gesture. The project kicks off a year of celebrations commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Madison Square Park Conservancy’s art program.
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Hernando’s 15 large-scale sculptures will be on view at Madison Square Park through March 17, with special events surrounding the project. The illustrated 256-page hardcover volume ‘Public Art in Public Space: Twenty Years Advancing Work in New York’s Madison Square Park’ can be pre-ordered and will be available on 3/6. For additional information visit madisonsquarepark.org

‘I wanted to bring spring forward, to attend to our yearning for what is soft and light, for what helps us keep walking, I wanted to create a piece to remind us that we are much more than darkness, much more than our sadness’.

     - Ana María Hernando