As part of a continued partnership between JCDecaux and the Public Art Fund, visual artist Felipe Baeza’s work can be seen across 400 bus shelters in the U.S. and Mexico.
Felipe Baeza, "Unruly Forms II", 2023 Image credit: © Felipe Baeza. Courtesy Maureen Paley, London. Photo: Nicholas Knight, courtesy Public Art Fund, NY.
Accessible and Engaging Art for Everyone
Through our partnership with The Public Art Fund, our street furniture advertising spaces across the U.S. and Mexico are transformed into a public art platform that extends into the day-to-day lives of urban residents.
Downtown and beyond, this Public Art Fund exhibition with JCDecaux stems from artist Felipe Baeza’s own memories with using public transportation and his desire to offer a mystical and thought-provoking escape to transit riders.
Felipe Baeza "Our shadows merging", 2022 Image credit: © Felipe Baeza. Courtesy Maureen Paley, London. Photo: Ramiro Chaves, courtesy Public Art Fund, NY.
Eight individual works from Baeza can be viewed on 400 bus shelters covering all corners of New York, Chicago, and Boston in the United States as well as Mexico City, León, and Querétaro in Mexico.
Unruly Forms marks the fifth three-city-wide exhibition in the U.S. and the first commissioned work in Mexico that JCDecaux and The Public Art Fund have collaborated on since our first Public Art Fund exhibition in 2017.
Felipe Baeza "Confined but still intoxicated with freedom", 2022 Image credit: © Felipe Baeza. Courtesy Maureen Paley, London. Photo: Ramiro Chaves, courtesy Public Art Fund, NY.
About the Artist
Born in Mexico, raised in Chicago, and currently based in Brooklyn, Felipe Baeza’s art features a captivating multilayered technique that delves into themes of displacement, spirituality, and metamorphosis as well as a more expansive outlook on the migrant experience.
The figures within his works are intentionally captured at different stages of becoming through varying levels of artistic abstraction and fantasy with room for interpretation and self-reflection.
Learn more about Felipe Baeza: Unruly Forms: https://www.publicartfund.org/exhibitions/view/felipe-baeza-unruly-forms/
Felipe Baeza, "The fragile sky terrified you your whole life", 2023 Image credit: © Felipe Baeza. Courtesy Maureen Paley, London. Photo:
Nicholas Knight, courtesy Public Art Fund, NY.