Contemporary Art Underground: MTA Arts & Design New York
Contemporary Art Underground showcases over 100 permanent public art projects completed between 2015 and 2023 by MTA Arts & Design, transforming New York’s transit system into a vibrant network of site-specific artworks. The book highlights how art creates character and a sense of place in subway and rail stations.
“Passageways” Jersey City Museum, Review
Priscila de Carvalho is presenting her largest and most ambitious installation to date, Passageways, a labyrinthine city built with a myriad of heterogeneous materials ranging from acrylic, paper and photographs to foam, rubber and threedimensional objects. The title alludes to the absence of streets in the slum areas, marked by abandoned rails and stairways.
Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit
Along the Way offers a tour of New York’s underground museum of contemporary art, showcasing over 150 site-specific commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit since 1985. Featuring artists like Priscila De Carvalho, Roy Lichtenstein, and Sol LeWitt, the program blends preservation of original subway ornamentation with new works that reflect their surrounding communities.
Un paisaje urbano de Priscila de Carvalho sobre la fachada
La obra de Priscila De Carvalho —nacida en Curitiva, Brasil, aunque vive y trabaja en Nueva York— se plasma en paisajes arquitectónicos muy dinámicos, que materializa en pinturas, dibujos, collages, instalaciones, murales y arte público. De Carvalho enfoca su interés en los problemas económicos, sociales y políticos de la urbanización descontrolada. A través de colores intensos y de múltiples capas, sus laberintos urbanos transmiten la energía de esas ciudades en constante cambio.
ArtNexus 74, Jersey City Museum
Priscila de Carvalho’s Passageways (Jersey City Museum, 2009) is a 10-by-35-foot installation of a labyrinthine cityscape built from mixed media, referencing both Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and New York City. Through fragmented passageways, absent homes, and contrasting narratives of joy and danger, the work explores themes of poverty, exoticism, and urban dualities.
Artists Whose Vitality Flows From the Streets
“The show starts off with a pair of cityscapes that give contrasting urban views. The first is a panoramic mural—part painting, part collage, part sculpture—by the young Brazilian Priscila de Carvalho, of tiny figures dwarfed by towering buildings and a toxic-looking sky.” —Holland Cotter, The New York Times.