The renovated 68th Street-Hunter College subway station features vibrant mosaics by artist Lisa Corinne Davis, reflecting the diverse community surrounding the station. Davis's artwork, inspired by her observations as a professor and graduate of Hunter's MFA program, explores the interactions between wealthy neighborhood residents and the varied population of Hunter College. Titled "Tempestuous Terrain" and the two-part "Liminal Location," the mosaics utilize engraved and hand-painted glass to represent geographic mobility and personal narratives. Positioned in the station's seating area and mezzanine, the mosaics serve as a visual acknowledgment of the community's richness and complexity.
As a graduate of Hunter's MFA program and as a current professor, I have had many years to observe the muscular congregation of the mostly white and wealthy residents of the neighborhood with the racial, ethnic, religious, economic and political diversity of the Hunter College population.
Their interaction fills this station with ample evidence of both the realities and aspirations of social and geographic mobility. It is a place where intersecting worlds collide and coexist en route to other actual, metaphorical or metaphysical destinations.
The mosaics, created from engraved and hand-painted glass, suggest a map and allude to geographic mobility, embodying the intersection of personal narratives.
You can find the mosaics flanking the seating area near the turnstiles, as well as in the station's mezzanine accessible by new stairs and elevators.
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