March 7th through May 26th

City of New York/Parks & Recreation and the Central Park Conservancy are pleased to be working with our frequent partner, the Public Art Fund, to host this outdoor component of the 2002 Whitney Biennial. Works by five of the 113 artists selected for inclusion in this year's biennial are on display in Central Park.

Keith Edmier's twin statuettes Emile Dobbelstein and Henry Drope stand at the Fifth Avenue and 60th Street entrance to Central Park. Edmier reinterprets the traditional war hero memorial by adding a personal touch; the artist captures the likeness of his grandfathers in bronze miniature representations three-quarter of their actual heights. By setting these miniature statues on traditional granite plinths, Edmier redefines the artistic language of public statuary.

Three hundred yards north of the statuettes, Kiki Smith's Harpies and Sirens adorn the entrance to the Central Park Wildlife Conservation Center. The bronze mythical creatures counterbalance the living creatures on display just inside the zoo.

The Zoo's Leaping Frog Café is hosting Kim Sooja's Deductive Object in which Sooja converts traditional Korean Bedcovers into tablecloths for the outdoor café.

Of the 26,000 trees of varying species that grace Central Park, Roxy Paine's stainless steel Bluff, located just east of the Sheep's Meadow, shimmers as the park's newest addition.

Brian Tolle's Waylay makes ripples in The Lake by Bow Bridge. Using submerged pumps to create irregular disturbances in the water seen as splashes, Tolles installation gives the illusion of objects falling into the lake.