At the Ave X station on the F line, six original and unique ink drawings in laminated glass were installed in platform windscreens to greet daily commuters and passersby, where they can be enjoyed from both up-close and from street level.   

Created by Brooklyn-based Derek Lerner and fabricated by Depp Glass, the artwork plays with the idea of macro and micro scale, an essential visual language in the artist’s practice. Each unique drawing takes reference from the geographic location of the station as well as its cartographic relation to the city’s transportation network. The path the F train takes through the city and its many stops, satellite imagery, maps, and other locations specific to the Ave X station were the artist’s starting points. The lyrical and intricately drawn "AVEX1-6(station)" is an allusion to mass transit as the circulatory system for our city and conveys an ever-changing, diverse and evolving metropolis. As artworks, the piercing blue and white drawings bring visual interest to the experience of this station in Gravesend. 

Derek Lerner is an NYC-based artist whose work explores systems: their creation, control, use, and experience of them. Lerner's abstract ink drawings commingle representations of human-made and natural systems and the tensions between those forces. From an aerial vantage point, his compositions grow, line by line, through an additive, extemporaneous process into fictional spaces that juxtapose these systems, signs, and symbols. They encompass dualities that vacillate between micro and macro scales, dark and light, creation and destruction, human-made and nature-made, and function as metaphors for ambivalence. He has exhibited worldwide and is a 2020 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow.