This Brooklyn artist wants to interrupt your commute
(With art, not subway delays.)
A Brooklyn artist unsettled by the 2016 election wants to shake up your everyday routine — starting with your subway station.
Since the summer of 2017, Crown Heights creator Jonathan Allen has been transforming everyday subway ads into politically charged works of art as part of an ongoing series he calls “Interruptions.”
“I was demoralized by the election, and grew really conflicted about continuing to make paintings after the inauguration and following that path through the art industry,” he told the Brooklyn Eagle. “It felt terribly hermetic and insular.”