In Everything There Is A Season

2005 116th Street (6) New York City Transit

Robert Blackburn's dynamic abstract patterns rendered in mosaic suggests the color and movement of the streets above that the artist shapes into beautiful artwork for the subway station. A master printmaker, Blackburn was a founding member of the Printmaking Workshop in Harlem. In 2001 MTA Arts & Design commissioned Blackburn to create a work for the 116 St subway station in Harlem. In failing health, he chose artist Mei-Tei-Sing Smith, a Bearden Fellow at the Printmaking Workshop to assist him on what would prove to be his last major project. Once completed, Blackburn’s maquettes were enlarged and manufactured into ceramic and glass mosaics.