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Public art installation by Julianne Swartz, 'Four Directions from Hunters Point (West Interrupted) (lenses, stainless steel, glass and view, 14"diameter inset into exterior wall, 2019; Installation view, Hunters Point Community Library, Queens, NY). The image illustrates a key longstanding body of work by Julianne Swartz beginning in the 2000s, when she produced multi-sensory site-specific public art installations employing auditory and optical effects. In this work created for the Queens, NY Hunters Point library, Swartz embedded four circular optical portals (one of which is pictured) in the walls and roof of the structure. The portals generate abstract views of the site and its idyllic surroundings, mirroring the library's function of transporting visitors to new perspectives. This body of work and individual work were publicly exhibited through prominent commissions and exhibitions and discussed by critics in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Julianne Swartz. Copyright held by the artist.

Julianne Swartz

Installation view

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work by Julianne Swartz from throughout her career: her multi-sensory site-specific public art installations—temporary, long-term and permanent—which have employed both auditory and optical effects. The sound installations included human and computer-generated voices uttering whispered thoughts and feelings, mock informational and motivational messages, and sung notes that seeped in from elevators, drinking fountains, restrooms, park benches and footbridges; the optical installations used lenses, mirrors and fiber optic cable to displace space and suggest a sense of perception in flux. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this key, ongoing body of work, which brought Swartz continuing recognition through commissions, exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Swartz's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Julianne Swartz, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.