10. Art at Amtrak in Penn Station
Amtrak is continuing its celebrated Art at Amtrak public art program with two new art installations by Shoshanna Weinberger and David Rios Ferreira in New York Penn Station. Weinberg’s piece, titled Traveling Along Horizons, will cover the Amtrak 8th Avenue concourse columns with figures symbolizing marginalized bodies. It depicts the way in which civilization measures time and travel between sunrise and sunset, with stripes that signify social division imposed by race, class, and ethnicity.
Ferreira’s contribution, Get Carried Away, You Have the Right, will transform the Amtrak rotunda into a cosmic gateway with pillars of temporal beings that blur the line between abstract and figurative art. The images included in the piece, along with imagery from Amtrack’s own archive, show different maps, train cars, and ticket stubs. The focus of the creation is Indigenous and Afro-Futurist imagery. On August 1, this fourth installment of Art at Amtrak will replace Derrick Adams’ six-month installation, which will become an animation on a 160-foot-wide LED digital screen above the main concourse at Moynihan Train Hall. The two new art installations will remain on view until January 2024.
