Glenn Ligon
Untitled (America/Me)
On view through December 8, 2024
Glenn Ligon presents Untitled (America/Me), inaugurating a new iteration of a historic billboard at the same location at 18th Street. In 2022, Ligon created Untitled (America/Me), manipulating a photograph of his 2008 iconic neon Untitled, drawing X’s over the majority of the letters in “AMERICA,” leaving the word “ME.” Untitled (America/Me) demonstrates the increasingly complex relationship between the individual and society as experienced in the United States, highlighting a “me first” mentality and an increasing disregard for community.
Arthur Simms
A Totem for the High Line.
On view through August 2025
Looming 40 feet tall over the High Line on the 16th Street Spur Preserve, a location marked with visible remnants of the park’s industrial past, Arthur Simms’ A Totem for the High Line. stands as a monument to memory and history. This new site-specific sculpture incorporates a decommissioned utility pole, assorted cables, and discarded license plates from various states, suggesting intertwined journeys across great distances that connect in New York City.
Kerstin Brätsch
Fossil Psychic Stone Mimicry (Palladiana, Mosaico_Bench I)
On view through September 2025
For the High Line at 23rd Street, Kerstin Brätsch created Fossil Psychic Stone Mimicry (Palladiana, Mosaico_Bench I), a site-specific mosaic bench as a “stone painting.” The work is a translation of one of her Fossil Psychics works, in which the painting gesture is expressed resembling fossilized fragments, enshrining the past into the present. Wrapped around an Oregon Green Austrian pine tree, the work offers a moment of respite for parkgoers, quietly urging visitors to reconnect with the natural world that surrounds them.
Rosana Paulino
The Creation of the Creatures of Day and Night
On view November 15, 2024–November 2025
The Creation of the Creatures of Day and Night is a continuation of Rosana Paulino’s mangrove series, which depicts tree-women as a mythological archetype and symbol for the Brazilian biome. In her new mural commission for the High Line at 22nd Street, Paulino re-imagines the duality between life and death as day and night. The tree-women’s heads are framed by halos resembling the sun and the moon, and the animals surrounding the goddesses are respectively diurnal or nocturnal. Together, these elements present a rich mythological framework for the mangrove, offering a departure from depictions shaped by colonization and exploitation.
Ezra Wube
Project Ecopolis
On view November 18, 2024–January 7, 2025
Project Ecopolis, by artist Ezra Wube, will premiere at a free special screening and panel event on November 18 and livestreamed online. Project Ecopolis continues Wube’s ongoing exploration of how we conceive of and exist within our cities and green spaces. For the second Joint Art Initiative, a program that explores how public art can inspire civic discourse and deepen connections within communities, Wube collaborated with four High Line Network sites from across the United States to produce a stop-motion film inspired by each public space. Wube captures the essence of each location and the pressing issues they face, underscoring the power of collective storytelling and prompting reflection on the intricate relationship between people, urban infrastructure, and ecology. The films will screen evenings on the High Line at 14th Street before traveling to participating sites.
Sasha Gordon
My Love of Upholstery
Untitled
On view November 18, 2024–January 2025
For the High Line—Moynihan Connector Billboard, Sasha Gordon presents two works, My Love of Upholstery (2024) and Untitled (2024). Both hail from the artist’s most recent body of work, in which she examines challenging taboos and standards of representation. Her images present a wide range of emotional states, simultaneously anxious and intimate, teetering somewhere between tender fantasy and nightmare. Her avatars, looming large within their frames, offer both artist and audience an outlet for exploring contradictory emotions and complex personal experiences.
