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Title: The Rite of Passage
Medium: Mosaic Tiles
Location: Subway 77th St. / Leno Hill Hospital, NY (2007)
As a simulated public art proposal for the 2007 National Academy Abbey Mural Fellowship, The Rite of Passage proposes a permanent artwork in mosaic tiles at the New York Subway 77th Street /Lenox Hill Hospital Station. This project pairs the ambulatory environment of a hospital and a subway station through a series of vignettes showing patients moving from one hospital room to another, through changes in medical condition or procedure. Stripped of emotion and individual identity, every hospital patient, visitor and employee is depicted in an iconic form to emphasize that this artwork is not about individual circumstances and outcomes within the hospital experience, but rather how our life, as a whole, unfolds uncertainly, as we are being ushered from one room to another.
Born in Hong Kong in 1977, Eugenie Tung immigrated to the US in 1995 at the age of 17. Shortly before earning her BFA in June 2001, she was awarded the Research and Creative Opportunity Grants for Undergraduates from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. Returning to an urban setting, after living in rural and suburban American cities for 7 years, Eugenie began her studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY in 2002, where she earned a MFA Degree in 2004 and became one of 10 recipients for the Joan Mitchell Foundation 2004 MFA grant. Since 2000, her artwork has been shown in Seattle, Washington; Portland, Oregon; San Diego; Madison, Wisconsin; Burlington, Vermont; Summit, New Jersey; New York City; and in the January 2003 issue of New American Paintings. In 2007, Eugenie's work was shown at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum for a group show, the Photograph as Canvas, curated by Stephen Maine. She was also awarded the 2007 National Academy Abbey Mural Fellowship. Most recently, Eugenie completed her first public art project, 16 Windows, at the New Lots Avenue Station on the Canarsie line, commissioned by the New York MTA Arts for Transit Program Permanent Art projects, which was featured in the 12/27/07 edition of New York Sun.
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