Barbara Ellmann created colorful geometric patterns abstracted from the landscape and elements within the surrounding neighborhood. Through site visits, Barbara documented intersecting buildings, and various intersections and patterns to create her compositions, which were fabricated into 21 faceted glass panels and installed in windscreens on the station platforms. The works fill the platform with jewel-like color while protecting transit customers from the wind.

Barbara Ellmann was born in Michigan and lives in New York, where she works as an educator at the Whitney Museum and Lincoln Center Education.  Ellmann’s work is in numerous collections around the world including Peter Norton, NYU Langone Medical Center, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, Peter J. Sharp Foundation and the United States Embassy in Kampala, Uganda. She has produced public works for a bus shelter in Summit, NJ, and The Cambria Heights Branch Library in Queens and has been selected for international artist residencies. Ellmann also co-founded the New York Artists Circle and served as Director of the group from 1996-2015.