Stephen Mallon: Next Stop Atlantic September 26, 2010

In his second solo exhibition at the gallery, Mallon presents a stunning series of photographs, which capture the retirement of hundreds of New York City Subway cars to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. In a bold move, the NYC Transit authority joined the artificial reef building program off the East Coast of the US in 2000 and sent stripped and decontaminated subway cars off on barges to be dropped into the ocean in order to build refuge for many species of fish and crustaceans which would colonize the structures. Mallon traces the progress of the train cars on their way towards their last voyage. These newly released photographs are from Mallon's continuing series; "American Reclamation" which chronicles and examines recycling processes in the U.S.