Think of Times Square and a variety of images, sights, sounds, and scents come to mind. Whatever they are, chances are you will find them in "Times Square: 35 Times," a series of artworks encased within glass blocks and set into the walls of the station. Toby Buonagurio conceived the work around three themes emblematic of the energetic vibrancy of midtown Manhattan: performing arts, fashion, and street life, all recognizable to both everyday passersby and the thousands of tourists who visit the city. The ceramics are installed in illuminated shadowboxes throughout the Times Square subway station complex. 

Toby Buonagurio grew up in the Bronx borough of New York City. She is best known for her colorful, offbeat, tongue-in-cheek, ceramic sculpture, inspired by extensive international travel, and an unapologetic affection for popular culture. She has exhibited her ceramic sculpture in museums and art galleries throughout the United States and abroad. Her work is in numerous private and public collections, and has been written about extensively in national periodicals, professional publications, books, monographs, exhibition catalogues. Buonagurio lives in New York City and teaches art at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she is head of the ceramic sculpture program.