Mundy Hepburn, Neon Garage, 1989
blown glass, inert gases
Professional Parking, Inc.
260 Crown Street
Like luminescent oddities from deep water, or a clutch of extraterrestrials hiding out from the Men in Black, these shapes dangle and bubble, deliriously fragile in their rude confines. Although I have seen Mundy Hepburn’s work elsewhere, it is only recently that I finally made my way to this, the earliest of his existing permanent installations. But the murky setting is an unexpected and splendid contrast which makes far more of the work than any museum display would (the artist also has aquarium-like set pieces at the Katherine Brennan School, funded in 2001 by the valuable Percent for Art Program underwritten by the city). Still, it must be said that, as parking garages go, the site is amiable enough. With a charging station for an electric car, and an indoor sanctuary of bicycle racks, it deserves patronage on several counts.
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