Foley Square

New York, NY - 2000

When the NYC Department of Parks renovated the entirety of Foley Square, they created a central fountain with five red granite paths extending to the different corners of the park, each ending in a grey granite starburst design. At the center of each starburst, I was commissioned to create a bronze relief medallion 79” in diameter. The five medallions each referenced a different period in the rich history of Square. Starting with Native American times, when the surrounding pristine waters had foot long oysters, through its use as a slave burial grounds, which I represented in relief with the tragic story of a female slave buried with her infant child. The last medallion in the project  touched on various aspects of its present function as a civic center.

The Foley Square pieces were designed in collaboration with R. Geoffrey Roesch, a certified architect and landscape architect at RGR Landscape in NYC.