PMA Connections at LaGuardia Connection
La Guardia’s New Delta Terminal to be Defined by New York Artists
Six site-specific permanent artworks will celebrate New York city’s energy and diversity. Two of them have Direct connections to the PMA.
The Port Authority, together with Gov. Kathy Hochul and Delta Air Lines, has partnered with the Queens Museum to commission Mariam Ghani, Rashid Johnson, Aliza Nisenbaum, Virginia Overton, Ronny Quevedo and Fred Wilson — all New York-based artists — to create installations throughout the arrivals and departures hall and associated concourse.
Interdisciplinary artist Fred Wilson was the first artist chosen for the Nelson Social Justice Fund lecture in 2000, which is an annual program that honors artists who inform their work or their lives with themes of social justice.
The art in Terminal C joins a growing gallery of public works at La Guardia, including the 1942 mural “Flight” by the Works Progress Administration artist James Brooks in the Marine Air Terminal, and, unveiled in the new Terminal B in 2020, four installations by Jeppe Hein, Sabine Hornig, Laura Owens and Sarah Sze. Later this year, Richard Lippold’s sculpture “Orpheus and Apollo,” which hung for more than 50 years at Lincoln Center, will be relocated to La Guardia’s Central Hall, currently under construction.
James Brooks (United States, 1906–1992), Bharatt, 1983, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 40 inches. Gift of the artist, 1983.159
Abstract painter James Brooks was featured in a major exhibition when the PMA first opened the Charles Shipman Payson Building in 1982.
La Guardia’s New Delta Terminal to be Defined by New York Artists by Hilarie M. Sheets, featured in The New York Times.