Boys Cry Too

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Title: Boys Cry Too
Photo Credit: Jared Kudabeck and Megan Badger
Lead Artist(s):

Description:

New York-based Orly Genger has re-worked a previous piece for the Park's new landscaping alongside Brays Bayou near the Bill Coats Bridge. An emerging talent, Genger has garnered attention for her large-scale constructions of brightly painted, knotted nautical rope. Spanning the genres of craft and fine art, Genger mines the intimate, domestic, and traditionally feminine practice of knitting to create sprawling, monumental installations. With the help of assistants, Genger looms, crochets, weaves, and knots heavy twine over the course of many months to create a single work. The installation in Hermann Park, which is made of knotted climbing rope, is painted in a wide range of colors including Eggnog, Springtime Bloom, Limeade, and many more. Boys Cry Too seems to pop off of the Park's terrain.

PROJECT LOCATION

Park
The installation sits on the banks of Brays Bayou on the Bayou Parkland side of Hermann Park between South MacGregor Way and Almeda near the Bill Coats Bridge.
Hermann Park Conservancy
1700 Hermann Drive
Houston, TX 77004
United States

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PROJECT TEAM

Hermann Park Conservancy
Weingarten Art Group
PROJECT DETAILS

Temporary
68,000
Grant
Private
Fiber Art, Installation
Textile/Fiber Art
Dimensions: 225 feet long x 17 feet wide, variable
2014
2015