New to the Rockefeller Center campus is a two-part installation from artist Paula Crown. Divided between a bronze sculpture in the Channel Gardens and a floor installation at the Rink Level Gallery, #solotogether explores “communication and accountability within the global collective consciousness.”
The ginormous bronze sculpture of a crushed solo cup, titled Resilience, calls attention to single-use plastics and their detrimental environmental consequences.
Furthermore, through her sculpture, Crown is memorializing the mutual experience and suffering the pandemic imposed on society. By doing so, the installation can “[remind] us of humankind’s resilience and innate ability to transfer energy even through the most mundane of objects.”
Visitors can explore the theme further by heading down to the Rink Level and seeing the second part of the installation, Solo Together. Here, a collection of deformed red solo cups create a striking cast floor installation.
Additional elements include a site-specific wall piece, photographs, and audio work. These extensions allow “the viewer to experience the breadth and depth of Crown’s artistic meditations on this everyday object.”
This ongoing, creative series from Crown advances the importance of questioning our role on the planet and how the planet inversely impacts us. Resilience and Solo Together aims to provoke the unasked questions and nurture connections.
You can see both on view, free of charge, from now until May 21st. Read more on the Rockefeller Center website here and check out more work from Paula Crown on her website here.
When: March 2nd – May 21st, 2023
Where: Channel Gardens (Resilience), Rink Level Gallery (#solotogether installation)
Hours: Monday – Thursday: 11 am – 5 pm; Friday: 11 am – 7 pm; Saturday: 12 pm – 5 pm; Sunday: Closed