Artist Registry

Jane Greengold makes public art, both temporary and permanent; installations; abstract paintings; and a variety of art works by fictional artists.

Her public art is site-specific, with the goal of increasing a sense of place. Her temporary public projects include annual “Impalements” of 100 individually carved pumpkins impaled on the spokes of an iron fence in Cobble Hill, and left for months to dissolve into fantastic gnarly decay; “The Anchorite,” the home, drawings, and diary of a fictional resident of the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, and “A Drop in the Bucket,” a revival of the public memory of Manhattan’s historical Collect Pond, both sponsored by Creative Time.

Her permanent public projects include work commissioned by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs: “Best on the Beach,” a steel fence for an EMS/Fire Station in Rockaway, New York, and “Spirals,” a multi-media project for a public high school in Brooklyn. For the MTA Arts for Transit program, I created “Wings for the IRT,” terracotta murals and bronze plaques in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza station, and, with a partner, Kane Do, “Almost Home,” an installation of sculptural seating in a MetroNorth station in Pleasantville, N.Y.

Her studio work includes paintings on rolling pins, toilet paper rolls, and MDF squares all of which can be rearranged by viewers; abstract paintings on paper; and manipulations of found objects.