File:Maria Elena Gonzalez Magic Carpet Home 1999.jpg

Public art installation by María Elena González, Magic Carpet/Home (1999, Coffey Park, Brooklyn, NY, Public Art Fund). The image illustrates a key longstanding body of work by María Elena González—her site-specific public art installations, which explore themes of memory, identity, loss and dislocation through formal, architectural and mapping modes. Drawing on both minimalism and conceptual art, they address social realities while appealing to wider audiences through forms evoking fantasy and imagination (e.g., a flying carpet) and park settings. This depicted work was installed in parks in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles—painted each time with the plans from local public-housing units onto undulating wood platforms surfaced with recycled rubber playground material. 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 María Elena González. Copyright held by the artist.

María Elena González

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work by María Elena González from throughout her career: her site-specific public art installations, which explore themes of memory, family, identity, loss and dislocation through formal, architectural and mapping modes that addressed site, place and social circumstances. These works draw on both minimalism and conceptual art, using outlines akin to blueprints, while also making pointed social commentary and engaging broad appeal through forms evoking fantasy and imagination and their park settings. 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, longstanding body of work, which brought González's initial and ongoing recognition through commissions, exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. González'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 María Elena González, and the work is no longer viewable, 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.