The artwork at 68 St-Hunter College station by Lisa Corinne Davis includes three glass mosaics rendered in the artist’s abstract style. Webbed lines cross bright patches of color throughout the densely packed compositions that suggest a mapping and allude to the geographic mobility and intersection of personal narratives that occur within the station. Davis charts the vitality of this Upper East Side neighborhood as a nonlinear landscape. The mosaics convey the experience of oblique human narratives within a station and community that flourishes as a crossroads.

A pair of compositions collectively titled “Liminal Location,” flank the seating area near the turnstiles, capturing attention as riders enter and exit the station. Another large piece, “Tempestuous Terrain,” features an expansive field of lines and forms ebbing and flowing on a 29.3’ long wall from floor to ceiling in the mezzanine accessible by stairs and elevators on 68th Street.

Drawn from Davis’s paintings, form and content merge in these complex abstractions. The medium of mosaic is uniquely suited for the transformation of these fragments of time, space and movement into a concretely visual and visceral field. Fabricated and installed by Mayer of Munich, a combination of glass smalti, engraved glass cakes with color infill, and hand-painted glass was employed to bring the complex relationship of lines and forms into life. Entangled nets, nodes, and careening lines also seek to portray the scaffolding of digital life. The indefinite and extra-dimensional moments in the artwork allude to the liminal terrains between the digital world, tunnels and portals, and the linear armatures of maps. The result is a matrix of dynamic, wandering forms that collide, truncate, and blend, leaving room for the viewer to navigate the meaning.

Lisa Corinne Davis is best known for paintings and works on paper that resemble multilayered maps with encoded narratives. Her “inventive geography” prompts a wide range of interpretations. As an African American, her practice explores the complex relationship between “race, culture and history” and, with it, ideas about classification and contingency, the rational and irrational, chaos and order. Born in Baltimore, MD, Davis received her BFA from Pratt Institute, and her MFA from Hunter College. Lisa Corinne Davis taught at the Yale University School of Art. She is currently Professor of Art at Hunter College. Her paintings have been exhibited across the United States and in Europe. Davis’ work is included in many prestigious private and public collections including The Museum of Modern Art "Artists Books", the J. Paul Getty Museum, National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art. She is the recipient of numerous awards. In 2017, she was inducted as a National Academician at the National Academy Museum & School.