ASBURY PARK, NJ - Monmouth University professors Mike Richison and Marina Vujnovic have teamed up with photographer and local businessman John Viggiano to create an interactive video art installation in the Carousel House in Asbury Park. The installation, entitled The Living Carousel, pays homage to the carousel that once occupied the space. Does anyone know the name of the artist responsible for the new installation in the casino? While we're at it, what is the whole commissioned. If you want to learn more about the installation, I found a couple great articles and have linked to them below. Windswept Public Art at the Beach: Hot Tea’s New Installation in Asbury Park, BSA May 29,2019; HOTTEA’s Temporary Installation in Asbury Park, NJ is Absolutely Fantastic, Street Depts May 29, 2019. The shore (to this son of NJ) has always been Seaside Heights (and Seaside Park) and Asbury Park (with Ocean Grove). We would go for a weekends or longer to Seaside Park but for day trips, to Asbury Park. Asbury park and Ocean Grove share similar origins - and are side by side. Both were founded by Methodists, but one remained a secular town and the other was a camp meeting association -.
They designed the Ritz, the Vanderbilt, the Ambassador and the Biltmore hotels in Manhattan, along with townhouses for the Astors, the Yacht Club, and apartment buildings on 5th Ave and Park.
They were also architects on the team for Grand Central Terminal, that Beaux-Arts centerpiece of Gotham with its high marble walls, majestic sculptures, and lofty domed ceiling.
Also, Whitney Warren & Charles Wetmore designed the Casino Building here in Asbury Park, New Jersey a celebrated historical magnet for thousands of tourists escaping the heat and seeking buffeting breezes. The soaring glass paned windows may remind you of Grand Central, but also of that illustrated postcard on the cover of the Bruce Springsteen album, and of colorful resort town living.
If you had been promenading through this public thoroughfare that connects Ocean Grove to Asbury Park when it was bustling in the middle of last century, you would have seen Skee-Ball machines, bumper cars, games of diversion, and hot dog vendors. Now a cavernous yet sometimes ornate cave from yesteryear, you will feel the soft ocean breezes and hear the call of the seagulls echoing inside the casino throughout the day, and sometimes the night.
You’ll also see 5,760 pieces of colored yarn hanging from the beams above, forming a shape-shifting brick of radiating color that appears to levitate. The brand new installation by Street Artist Hot Tea is lifted and pulled and choreographed by the ocean air, dancing to the sounds of waves crashing, emulating the currents of the sea. 17 rows define the physical boundaries, but your imagination can go much further with it in a matter of minutes.
“One of the focal parts of this piece is about how people interact with it,” says Hot Tea (Eric Rieger) as he unbundles 153 containers of yarns he prepared in his Minneapolis studio and suspends them above.
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At this point I’m sure everyone has seen the new art installation in the casino. It’s absolutely beautiful, and another great addition to our City By The Sea curated by Jenn Hampton and the Wooden Walls Project. The brilliant artist is HOTTEA, who is actually Eric Rieger, originally a street artist from Minneapolis. The title of this masterpiece is “One Last Moment Under The Sky.”
If you haven’t seen it, check it out in the Casino building the next time you’re in Asbury Park and watch it come to life on a windy day. For more of this artists work you can find him on Instagram @hotxtea.
If you want to learn more about the installation, I found a couple great articles and have linked to them below.
- Windswept Public Art at the Beach: Hot Tea’s New Installation in Asbury Park, BSA May 29,2019
- HOTTEA’s Temporary Installation in Asbury Park, NJ is Absolutely Fantastic, Street Depts May 29, 2019
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