Jane Greengold

Title: The Anchorite P

Medium: Dim var. Mixed media

Location: Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY (1983)

Temporary installation in the Brooklyn Anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, N.Y.Sponsored by Creative Time, Inc.

Because this work was created as part of the centennial of the Brooklyn Bridge, I wanted it to be about the hundred-year history of the Bridge and not only the physical Bridge as it existed in 1983. So I created the character of an old woman whole life had been inextricably linked with the Bridge. The work consisted of a presentation of her home and all her belongings, under the Bridge, as well as hundreds of her drawings of the Bridge tower, which I did, and excerpts from her diaries, which I wrote.

Jane Greengold makes public art, other installations, and abstract paintings. Her public art is site-specific, with the goal of providing a visually rich sense of place.

Early gallery shows included "Passages of Time," visual representations of the passage of time; "The Baroque Rolodex," a reworking of 32 rolodexes; and "Line of Sight," a show of collages all in blue done by a fictional artist whose son could only see blue. Her temporary public projects include "The Anchorite," the home, drawings, and diary of a fictional resident of the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, and "A Drop in the Bucket," a revival of the public memory of Manhattan 's historical Collect Pond.

More recently she has installed permanent pieces commissioned by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs: "Best on the Beach," a 120' lazer-cut steel fence for an EMS/Fire Station in Rockaway, New York, and "Spirals," a multi-media project for a science oriented public high school in Brooklyn. For the MTA Arts for Transit program, she designed "Wings for the IRT," terracotta murals and bronze plaques in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza station, and, with a partner, Kane Do, "Almost Home," an installation of sculptural seating in a MetroNorth station in Pleasantville, N.Y.

In addition to these projects, Greengold does abstract paintings on paper. She has four grown children, and earns a living as a part-time lawyer representing indigent clients. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Jane Greengold