From a Tucked-Away New York Town, This Facility Brings Large-Scale Art to Life
UAP is making an unmissable mark on public space in American cities, fabricating outdoor art and installations from a buzzy foundry upstate.
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2022 Public Art Highlights
Contributing curators together with UAP's curatorial team select their best public art for the year
Emergence of Form: Rose B. Simpson's 'Behold'
See how a 25-foot bronze begins as clay.
From a life-size original to PMMA prints, and hand-finished patina, this is the journey of Behold coming to life at our Rock Tavern foundry.
The Shanghai Art Factory That’s Constructing Massive Public Artworks
One of the jewels of Ai Weiwei’s “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors”—the sprawling Public Art Fund project the Chinese artist mounted across New York City last fall—was a gleaming steel cage that sat within the arch at Washington Square Park. The work quickly became a destination for droves of locals and tourists alike, but few likely knew that the work itself was made in a factory on the other side of the globe, in a suburb of Shanghai, China.