Architectural Cut Paper Installation Closing Soon at the Flatiron Building in NYC

New York City, New York, January 5, 2016 (Newswire.com) - This exhibition entitled “Constructing Manhattan from the Razor’s Edge” features Manhattan neighborhoods all created by hand from artist Christina Lihan out of white paper. Presented by Sprint, at the Flatiron Prow Art Space, this installation opened September 17, 2015, will be closing January 14, 2016. The glass space is viewed from the street at the Flatiron Building: 23rd Street and Broadway and Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10010. Subway: N. Q, R​

Ms. Lihan’s installation at the Sprint Flatiron Prow Art Space fills the triangular shaped glass box with streetscapes of iconic neighborhoods of Manhattan. Very detailed, architecturally significant buildings form the streetscapes. Each streetscape creates a perspective, a perspective of the pedestrian, as they walk down the space. “I also created another layer of cut paper objects behind the streetscapes that represent the history or feeling of the neighborhood,” explains Ms. Lihan. “I wanted to surprise the viewer, for them to ask, why is there a chess set behind the Union Square neighborhood?” The transparency of the space is also very significant in the installation. The viewer sees the buildings in Madison Square Park beyond her paper buildings of that neighborhood. Look carefully through the windows of her paper buildings. The viewer contemplates her highly detailed sculpture of St. Patrick’s cathedral while the reflection of a Fifth Avenue building across the street is “imprinted” on the façade. The whiteness of the buildings seem to glow at night as the buildings float in the black space.

"I created another layer of cut paper objects behind the streetscapes that represent the history or feeling of the neighborhood"

Christina Lihan, Artist

Christina Lihan is trained as an architect with a master’s degree from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Virginia. She has been creating her unique work for over 8 years as a full-time artist. She has exhibited nationally in galleries in the Wynwood Art District in Miami, at Red Dot and Scope at Art Basel Miami, and in Atlanta. Internationally she exhibited with 4 other paper artists in Shanghai at the International Financial Center, in Moscow as part of a group show on all things paper, and in Tel Aviv as part of a group show at the Museum in Jaffa. Her work is part of corporate and private collections in Miami, London, Rome, Hong Kong, Atlanta, Palm Beach, San Francisco, NYC and Shanghai. This is her second solo exhibition in New York City.