Finding the Art of LaKela Brown at Rockefeller Center
Artist LaKela Brown references African-American culture and her personal love of 90?s hip hop in new sculptures at Rockefeller Center.
Brooklyn artist LaKela Brown has installed her hip-hop inspired artwork throughout the hidden hallways and art deco lobbies of Rockefeller Center in New York City this summer. This strange and perfect pairing is presented by Art in Focus in partnership with the non-profit Art Production Fund and on view through September 20th.
In addition to finding smart sculpture in pleasantly unexpected spaces, the exhibition is an invitation to enter and explore the lesser-known corners of Rockefeller Center, that frankly, I never knew I could until this program. Though the general public ALWAYS has permission to enter these lesser-known sections of The Rock, this exhibition provides a happy excuse to push the revolving doors into less-tourist?ed sections with the added confidence to linger. “Atlas” 1937, by Lee Lawrie & Rene Paul Chambellan, flanked by 2 sidewalk lightboxes by LaKela Brown
LaKela Brown, Vitrines at 630 Fifth Avenue
Groups of tourists will stop to photograph the famous 45-foot tall ?Atlas? sculpture (1937) by Lee Lawrie & Rene Chambellan on 5th Avenue, but few know that they can jump into the doors behind it. You should. Right now three vitrines on the north side of that lobby hold the beautiful plaster sculptures of LaKela Brown. The gold wall above them, titled ?Light and Movement?,was created in 1978 by Mi...
Brooklyn artist LaKela Brown has installed her hip-hop inspired artwork throughout the hidden hallways and art deco lobbies of Rockefeller Center in New York City this summer. This strange and perfect pairing is presented by Art in Focus in partnership with the non-profit Art Production Fund and on view through September 20th.
In addition to finding smart sculpture in pleasantly unexpected spaces, the exhibition is an invitation to enter and explore the lesser-known corners of Rockefeller Center, that frankly, I never knew I could until this program. Though the general public ALWAYS has permission to enter these lesser-known sections of The Rock, this exhibition provides a happy excuse to push the revolving doors into less-tourist?ed sections with the added confidence to linger. “Atlas” 1937, by Lee Lawrie & Rene Paul Chambellan, flanked by 2 sidewalk lightboxes by LaKela Brown
LaKela Brown, Vitrines at 630 Fifth Avenue
Groups of tourists will stop to photograph the famous 45-foot tall ?Atlas? sculpture (1937) by Lee Lawrie & Rene Chambellan on 5th Avenue, but few know that they can jump into the doors behind it. You should. Right now three vitrines on the north side of that lobby hold the beautiful plaster sculptures of LaKela Brown. The gold wall above them, titled ?Light and Movement?,was created in 1978 by Mi...
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