Leslie Wayne created "Neptune’s Garden" for the Bay Parkway station, situated along the elevated subway route to Coney Island. In creating the artwork, Wayne considered the public’s shared interests and concerns for the environment and surrounding bodies of water. New Yorkers perennially enjoy the ocean, whether it’s visiting the beaches during the summertime, watching the Coney Island Polar Bear Club take a dip in the winter, fishing, or taking in the view. "Neptune’s Garden" is a tribute to this enjoyment and the ocean’s beauty, as well as a reminder of its fragility.

For the fabrication of this laminated glass artwork, Wayne worked with Derix Glasstudios to incorporate various techniques in creating the colorful coral shapes and hand painting was applied to various layers to create depth within each glass panel. Colorful, organic forms characterize coral in the sea, and the blue and green shapes appear as floating seaweed and ferns. Similar to Wayne’s studio paintings, in which layers of oil paint are built up and then pushed and manipulated into ribbons and crenelated forms, the layers of glass panels create texture and a fantasy-like panorama of the sea floor in all its splendor. 

Leslie Wayne is a painter and an occasional writer and curator who lives and works in New York City. Her signature works are known for their highly dimensional surfaces of oil paint, forcing a re-examination of the term painting in the traditional sense. They often take the literal form of draped cloth, or like ready-mades, stand in for the objects they represent. In her new body of abstract work, "Free Experience," Wayne reaches for, in her words, “that seductive dislocation” by exploring the range of possibilities for the representation of an illusion in as many different ways as possible, from tromp-l’oeil to verisimilitude, while still remaining undeniably within the confines of a painting. Wayne has been the subject of 32 solo shows, two traveling surveys, and over 150 group exhibitions since 1974. Her work has been reviewed by many art press and journals in the U.S. and Europe.