Sentences with phrase «abandoned baby strollers»

Ranging from a haunting grouping of abandoned baby strollers (Amazing Grace, 1993) to a scrolling script of «We the People» written in dangling shoelaces (We the People, 2011), to a collection of preservative cans filled with neighbors» smiles (Sugar Hill Smiles, 2014), Ward's compositions resonate with the materials they comprise.

It was during a 1992 residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem that Ward began to work with abandoned baby strollers, which he found on the street — sometimes as many as ten in one weekend.

Twenty years ago, when he was an artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Nari Ward would collect abandoned baby strollers from empty parking lots, and not much else.

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For this large - scale installation, Ward gathered more than 365 discarded baby strollers — commonly used by the homeless population in Harlem to transport their belongings — which he bound with twisted fire hoses in an abandoned fire station in Harlem.