A peculiar yellow sculpture landed in New York City's Brooklyn Bridge Park on Monday. If you look at it from Manhattan, it shouts "YO." But if you are peering at it from Brooklyn, it yells "OY."
The 17-foot-tall sculpture was created by Deborah Kass, an American artist who described herself to The New York Times as a "total, absolute, 100% provincial New Yorker." Commissioned by the Brooklyn developer Two Trees Management Company, it will stay in the park until August 2016.
"The fact that this particular work resonates so beautifully in so many languages to so many communities is why I wanted to make it monumental," Kass said.
She first created "OY" as a painting in 2011 as a homage to Edward Ruscha's 1962 painting "OOF." The concept then morphed into different prints and sculptures, before she turned it into the giant aluminum sculpture beneath the bridge.
Kass often references other artists, including Gertrude Stein, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and Frank Stella in her work. She hopes that onlookers will interpret the sculpture's meaning for themselves.
Though brash, it serves as a fitting "hello" from New York City.
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