Please note: this exhibition was on display in Hudson Park's window through February 2023. Please enjoy this online exhibition.
Windows to Love: A Hudson Park Library Chapter is a Winter-long showcase of a city-wide "Spreading Love" street art project, which to date spanned many areas of New York City. The project's origins trace back to 2020, to the first wave of the devastating Coronavirus pandemic in NYC. To mitigate the emotional toll of the novel virus on the public, the Viral-Love symbol was man-made to inspire anyone who came into contact with it to feel loved and to be kind to one another. Initially, it was only meant to exist as a PSA poster. However, following destructive Nationwide social unrest by the Summer, the symbol mutated into a full-blown large stencil painting, first appearing on the boarded-up storefronts in SOHO. Several years in, and many variants later, the Viral-Love now pops up at the Hudson Park Library! As it's always the case with each variant, the symbol adapts to the surface of each new environment. Here, it is placed in the context of the historical origins of the Hudson Park Library, starting from its opening in 1906. Collaged with copies of archival photographs, maps, poems, and etchings related to the neighborhood and the library, this work offers the blend of the new and the old, along with the symbol of constant, perpetual love as the centerpiece. Come around the clock – during the day to see the collage, and at dusk to see the symbol's soft reds soothingly glowing with light, showing the way towards love for the wandering souls in the night.
Location: 6th Ave and 53rd Street, MoMA block.
TIMUR is a New York-based independent multidisciplinary artist. He was born in Uzbekistan and immigrated as a teenager to NYC, where he was accepted into the acclaimed Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts, majoring in Fine Art. Upon graduation, he attended the School of Visual Arts with a focus on Graphic Arts and Advertising. The experience of fusing Fine Art principles and Design aesthetics formed a unique way he approaches his subject matter. His artistic area of interest is centered around the concepts of Time, Place, History, and Love. He depicts contemporary society's issues through graphic iconography, photography, painting, sculpture, and mixed media. TIMUR’s early sculpture work is on permanent outdoor display at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C. His current work is in several museums and private collections.
TIMUR is always interested in creative collaborations with curators, historians, patrons, companies, brands, and institutions looking to produce thought-provoking and aesthetically stimulating works of art. If you are an art lover interested in a commission or a collaboration, please reach out. I would be very happy to hear from you! www.timuryork.com; Instagram: @timuryorkart
The artist concurrently has another exhibit on the boarded-up windows of the historic Bleecker Tower in NOHO, at 644 Broadway. It is a commissioned multi-window installation that's been cheering the neighborhood since the Spring of 2021. Come see it as well while it's up!
See the short youtube video with the interview for details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHcEsHKC5Cc&t=21s