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| Maura Sheehan |
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Frieze Frame
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Completion Date:
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1995
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Medium:
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Ceramics
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Dimensions:
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500'
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Location:
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Long Island City High School
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Address:
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14-30 Broadway, Queens
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Architect:
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Gruzen Samton Steinglass
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Sponsor Agency:
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Board of Education
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Design Agency:
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School Construction Authority
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Designed to resemble a spool of unwound film, Maura Sheehan's frieze of ceramic tiles runs for 500 feet (152 m) along the top of the lobby walls at Long Island City High School. The work features a series of digitized images of people running and is arranged to give the effect of continuous motion. According to the artist, the installation was inspired by the work of the early photographer Edweard Muybridge, whose experiments in stop-motion photography in the late nineteenth century were instrumental in the invention of motion pictures.
About the Artist...
Maura Sheehan was raised in New York and received her B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. A sculptor, Sheehan is primarily an installation artist whose complex tableaus investigate the layers of meaning behind stable concepts. Her work has appeared at P.S.1, Cristine Rose Gallery, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; Stadische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf; Art in Public Spaces, Hamden, Connecticut; Copenhagen: Round Tower; and The Helsinki Museum. She is currently living and working in New York.
