Pier 54, 68 Piles at Sunset is part of a High Line Commission of photographs documenting actions and performances staged on Pier 54, a now demolished pier on Manhattan's West Side. The exhibition
Pier 54 is a tribute and reaction to
Pier 18, an exhibition organized by Willoughby Sharp in 1971, with
Pier 54 featuring actions staged by artists in 2014. Like
Pier 18, the actions completed for
Pier 54 were not intended to be public, but were exhibited as photographs, completed in collaboration with photographer Liz Ligon. In addition to the exhibition, works from
Pier 54 were projected on the High Line during 2014-15.
For
68 Piles at Sunset, the sixty-eight piles alongside the north edge of the pier were photographed over the course of two and a half hours straddling the setting of the sun. The project began with Jan Dibbets’s sunset-based
Pier 18 action as inspiration. By keeping the exposure time of each photograph consistent, the work achieved a subtle grayscale over the set of images. | 2014
Pier 54 Artists: Leonor Antunes, Rosa Barba, Francisca Benitez, Carol Bove, N. Dash, Liz Glynn, Sharon Hayes, Iman Issa, Margaret Lee, Maria Loboda, Marie Lorenz, Shana Lutker, Liz Magic Laser, Jill Magid, MPA, Virginia Overton, Leah Raintree, Emily Roysdon, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Aki Sasamoto, Xaviera Simmons, Mika Tajima, Andra Ursuta, Sara VanDerBeek, Allyson Vieira, Marianne Vitale, and Anicka Yi | Photographs by Liz Ligon
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