Gate Garlands

Gate Garlands
By Katherine Daniels   

161-04 Jamaica Avenue
Jamaica, Queens, NY 11432

A Public Art Installation presented by chashama and created for the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation.

In Gate Garlands, Katherine Daniels takes the language of shapes present in the wrought iron gate beside the Jamaica Arts Center and reconfigures them into garlands of glow in the dark concrete appliqués flowing from the brick wall around a fountain and across the cement ground to the edge of the gate. Her labor intensive work focuses on the interplay of color and line building into dense compositions that build into a whole intricate form. These forms transform the alleyway into a canvas.

About the artist:

Katherine Daniels received 2013 Puffin Foundation Grant to create North Star at 117th Street and Fredrick Douglas Boulevard in Harlem, NY. She created Ornamental Paths at Joyce Kilmer Park in the Bronx NY for the 2012 Clare Weiss Emerging Artist Award for Public Art from the New York City Parks Department. She made Viel in 2011 for the chashama Donnel Library Windows and St. Nicholas Park Mesh in 2012 with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Manhattan Creative Communities Grants. In 2011, she also installed the fence weaving Lincoln Road Serape on a pedestrian bridge in Brooklyn for the community group LinRoFORMA Association with a New York City Department of Transportation grant. Katherine Daniels was granted a subsidized chashama studio space (2005 - 2013), and has been awarded a 2009 AIM (Artists in the Market Place) participation at the Bronx Museum, a 2003 PS.122 Project Studio, a 2001 Artist-in-Residence at the Henry Street Settlement, a 2000 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program grant and a 2000 New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowships in painting.