50 People in Central Park

ARTIST STATEMENT

These drawings are part of a project called Every Person in New York. I have been working on the project for over three years and have drawn over 16,000 people.

The drawings in this edition range from a man riding two bikes in Central Park, to a little girl looking at beetles at The Natural History Museum, to a man sleeping in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to the comedian Aziz Ansari at the Museum of Modern Art, to a couple who are having their wedding pictures taken in Grand Central Station.

I think a lot about the people I am drawing. I also think about the location we are in while I am drawing them. People move at different speeds, wear different clothes, and act differently in different parts of the city and I like thinking (and learning) about these things while I watch them go about their day.

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50 People in Central Park

by Jason Polan

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Edition of 50
An original drawing of a New Yorker. Each drawing will be unique and will be of a different person. The drawing will be labeled with the location of the person in the drawing and the date it was made. The drawing will be drawn with black ink on archival 10"×8" paper and signed with pencil on the reverse.

Edition of 10
An original drawing of ten New Yorkers. Each drawing will be unique and will contain ten different people. The drawing will be labeled with the location of the people in the drawing and the date it was made. The drawing will be drawn with black ink on archival 14"×11" paper and signed with pencil on the reverse. Available here.

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