Phyllida Barlow: prop

Phyllida Barlow is a British artist who came of age in the wake of the “New Generation” of British sculptors of the early 1960s. Barlow presents a new iteration of a sculpture presented outside the British Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, re-imagined for the High Line. The sculpture stands on a railway spur at 16th Street that used to run directly into a refrigerated warehouse immediately north of Chelsea Market, formerly a Nabisco cookie factory. As with much of Barlow’s oeuvre, the work points to the area’s industrial past and how architecture, like art, is perpetually cannibalized from one generation to the next.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.