Awol Erizku's Strange, Striking Photographs Will Grace Hundreds of Bus Shelters Across New York and Chicago—See Images Here
through June 20, 2021 What Public Art Fund says: “Awol Erizku’s distinctive visual language emerges from thoughtful, contemplative underpinnings into layered, colorful, and striking photographs. Erizku (b. 1988, Gondar, Ethiopia) has created a new body of 13 photographs for 350 JCDecaux bus shelters across New York City’s five boroughs and throughout Chicago. ‘New Visions for Iris’ marks Public Art Fund’s first simultaneous presentation in two cities, and first ever in Chicago. Growing up in the Bronx and influenced by its diverse milieu, Erizku’s approach to photography is ...