link to my 1998 article on W. 104th St.
Community Garden  

A Lot of Possibilities is an annual exhibition at WinterSpace, NY - an apartment space I've created and curate. One room's view of a communal garden inspired me to become a garden member, in 1996, and to write about the gardens in New York City. The aim of the WinterSpace exhibitions is to create a dialogue between artists, gardeners and the city, and my desire to turn the communal gardens into partial sculpture gardens is driven by both aesthetic sensibility and municipal strategy: by adding the cultural capital of contemporary artists to the gardens, they stand a greater chance against future demolition.

link to 2010 New York Times article on
gardens at risk

WinterSpace, 2010. Garden proposals
clockwise: Jonathan Velardi, Meg Studer,
David Bard and Norbert Attard.

proposal by Coraline Meyer

Participating artists: Norbert Attard, David Barr, Suzanne Broughel, Jenny Carolin, Laura Fayer, Leah Grimaldi, Bonnie Lane, Lisbeth Langkjær, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Coraline Meyer, Caroline Parks, Matt Pych, Aleksandr Razin, Jennifer SItron, Meg Studer, Sandra Mack-Valencia, Petra Valentova, Jonathan Velardi and Virginia Vergara.

David Barr's installation, "A
Project (untitled) for the W. 104th.
Street Garden"

David Barr: Walking by the garden, I noticed that one of the sole unbridled forces of nature at work was that of the sun. The project takes the form of seven segments of mirrors, together forming a circle. The mirrors are placed around the garden, scattering their light as the day waxes and wanes, coalescing at noon onto the bare, east wall. A big part of the idea of the project is that it is always there, regardless of whether or not someone is there to see it. This would allow for the individual discovery of the work of someone walking down the street at noon, the random garden relaxer or art-appreciating finch.

Jenny Carolin presenting food from
Disaster Cookbook, a collaboration with
Petra Valentova - and soliciting
recipes.

Virginia Vergara: I envision 10 photos
as large prints, adhered directly to
garden wall like old movie posters, with
wheat-paste.

Carolin Parks proposed photographs of her permanent and temporary wrappings in NYC communal gardens, accompanied by a sound piece of her conversations with gardeners and passers-by as she does the wrapping.