Visual Arts students Javier Griffey and Sharon Lee, along with Undergraduate Visual Arts student Vivien Ko Sweet, are exhibiting new works responding to Coney Island's rich history as a site of leisure, creativity, and cultural exchange.
Coney Island, Spectacular features photography and art by the three Columbia students alongside historical photographs and documents from the library's W.F. Mangels Company collection, offering a dialogue between past and present perspectives on the iconic Brooklyn destination.
Lee contributes a painting inspired by an archival photograph, reimagining a scene depicting an anonymous beachgoer. Griffey, meanwhile, offers a series of photographic portraits.