Beyond the Biosphere - Street Murals

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Beyond the Biosphere consists of two printed vinyl canopies measuring 17.5 x 105 feet covering the incoming and outgoing platforms of the Slauson Bus Station. The canopies take full advantage of visual illusion by providing the passengers, as they glance up, a playful sense of being under floating and hovering heavenly spheres.

Item Beyond the Biosphere

Created by Amy Cheng

As seen in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

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Amy Cheng

New Paltz, NY

Wescover creator since 2017

Amy Cheng has a dual career as a studio painter and a designer of public art. She is known for her sumptuous, intricate, ornamented and richly referential paintings. Her work fuses pictorial language from three different visual languages and traditions - Eastern, Middle Eastern and Western. Her public art commissions are recognized for being joyful, colorful, lively and elegant. Some of her work is abstract but referential, and some include images in the form of line drawings, silhouettes, and photographic renderings.

She was born in Taiwan, and grew up in Brazil, Oklahoma, and Texas. She has a BFA in Painting from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MFA in Painting from Hunter College, City University of New York. She lives in New York’s Mid Hudson Valley and is a Professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Beyond the Biosphere - Street Murals

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Amy Cheng