BGuthrie Photos: Metro Station -- Gallery Place (art)

Metro Station -- Gallery Place (art):

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Description of Pictures: Also, some pictures of the red station lights which started being installed in this station and were moved to the other stations later on.

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1. METGP_070422_18.JPG: Gallery Place-Chinatown Yellow line South tunnel entrance wall. Yellow Line, 1989 Constance Fleres Painted metal, neon lights 20' l x 8' h Connie is well known as the creator of 'Yellow Line', a public artwork located in the Washington, D.C. Metro system at the Gallery Place station. This project was made possible in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the Arts Consortium. Constance Fleres is a contemporary artist whose multimedia works embrace a theme of movement and reflective light. She has taught in the Washington, D.C. area, as well as New Zealand, and has exhibited in galleries throughout the United States and overseas. Her works are in various public and private collections worldwide. She resides in Alexandria, Virginia.
2. METGP_070422_46.JPG: Gallery Place-Chinatown North entrance passageway. The Glory of Chinese Descendants, 2000 Foon Sham Plexiglas, wood, aluminum, neon lights 30' l x 8.3' h The wall sculpture serves as a gateway to historic Chinatown. The thoughtful use of materials evokes images of everyday objects found in traditional Chinese culture including, fans, chopsticks, rice paper and lanterns. The artist sought to pay homage to early Chinese descendants who settled in the Nation's Capital. This project was made possible in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities. Born in Macao, China in 1953, artist Foon Sham arrived in the United States in 1975. Over the years, he studied at several notable colleges, ultimately receiving a B.F.A from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California in 1978 and an M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia in 1981. A large portion of Mr. Sham's body of work consists of varying size sculptures which utilize a diverse array of hard woods, orchestrated in organic forms. The Glory of Chinese Descendants, commissioned for WMATA in 2000, deviates from the majority of his work in terms of materials used.
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Description of Subject Matter: Gallery Place-Chinatown
Yellow line South tunnel entrance wall.

Yellow Line, 1989
Constance Fleres
Painted metal, neon lights
20' l x 8' h

Gallery Place-Chinatown Yellow line South tunnel entrance wall.Connie is well known as the creator of 'Yellow Line', a public artwork located in the Washington, D.C. Metro system at the Gallery Place station.

This project was made possible in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and the Arts Consortium.

Constance Fleres is a contemporary artist whose multimedia works embrace a theme of movement and reflective light. She has taught in the Washington, D.C. area, as well as New Zealand, and has exhibited in galleries throughout the United States and overseas. Her works are in various public and private collections worldwide. She resides in Alexandria, Virginia.

The above was from https://www.wmata.com/initiatives/art-in-transit/ait-gallery-place.cfm

Gallery Place-Chinatown�
North entrance passageway.

The Glory of Chinese Descendants, 2000
Foon Sham
Plexiglas, wood, aluminum, neon lights
30' l x 8.3' h

The Glory of Chinese Descendants - 2000
The wall sculpture serves as a gateway to historic Chinatown. The thoughtful use of materials evokes images of everyday objects found in traditional Chinese culture including, fans, chopsticks, rice paper and lanterns. The artist sought to pay homage to early Chinese descendants who settled in the Nation's Capital.

This project was made possible in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities.

Born in Macao, China in 1953, artist Foon Sham arrived in the United States in 1975. Over the years, he studied at several notable colleges, ultimately receiving a B.F.A from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California in 1978 and an M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia in 1981. A large portion of Mr. Sham's body of work consists of varying size sculptures which utilize a diverse array of hard woods, o ...More...
Wikipedia Description: Gallery Place – Chinatown (WMATA station)
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Gallery Place–Chinatown is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Green, Red and Yellow Lines. It is a transfer station between the Red Line on the upper level and the other two lines on the lower level.

Location:

Gallery Place–Chinatown is located in Northwest Washington, with entrances at 7th and F, 7th and H, and 9th and G Streets. The station's only street elevator is north of F Street on the west side of 7th Street.

The station, which is beneath the Verizon Center, serves that arena and the surrounding Chinatown and Penn Quarter neighborhoods in downtown Washington. The station is located very close to Metro Center, such that the lights of one are visible down the tunnel from the other.

Notable places nearby:

* Calvary Baptist Church
* Ford's Theater
* International Spy Museum
* J. Edgar Hoover Building (headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation)
* Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (main branch of the DC Public Library)
* National Building Museum
* National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial
* National Portrait Gallery
* Smithsonian American Art Museum
* Verizon Center (home of the Washington Wizards, Washington Capitals, Washington Mystics, and Georgetown Hoyas)
* Washington Convention Center
* Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

History:

Service began on December 15, 1976, as part of the original Red Line that ran from Farragut North to Rhode Island Avenue–Brentwood. The opening of the station was delayed by a court order over lack of handicapped access (it was originally supposed to open with the rest of the first stations on March 27, 1976). WMATA provided assurance that such access would be available by June 1, 1977.

Yellow Line service began on April 30, 1983, adding service to the Pentagon and National Airport. Green Line service began in 1991, adding service (at t ...More...
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2007 photos: Trips this year: Two weeks down south (including Graceland, Shiloh, VIcksburg, and New Orleans), a week at a time share in Costa Rica over my 50th birthday, a week off for a family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with sidetrips to Dayton, Springfield, and Madison), a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con with a side trip to Michigan for two family reunions, a drive up to Niagara Falls, a couple of weekend jaunts including the Civil War Preservation Trust Grand Review in Vicksburg, and a December journey to three state capitols (Richmond, Raleigh, and Columbia). I saw sites in 18 states and 3 other countries this year -- the first year I'd been to more than two other countries since we lived in Venezuela when I was a little toddler. Ego strokes: A photo that I took at the National Archives was used as the author photo on the book jacket for David A. Nichols' "A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution." I became a volunteer photographer at both Sixth and I Historic Synagogue and the Civil War Preservation Trust (later renamed "Civil War Trust").. Equipment this year: I used the Fuji S9000 almost exclusively except for the period when it broke and I had to send it back for repairs. In August, I bought a Canon Rebel Xti, my first digital SLR (vs regular digital) which I tried as well but I wasn't that excited by it. Number of photos taken this year: 225,000.
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