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The New Year opened with one of the worst snowstorms of the century, stranding thousands in Grand Central Terminal. It also opened with a "GRAND SPLASH" with the installation of Meryl Meisler's digital photographs in the MTA Arts for Transit and Metro-North Commuter Railroad Lightbox Project in Grand Central Terminal. Ms. Meisler takes the viewer on a tour of Grand Central Terminal as if it were underwater. The display transparencies are installed in thirteen lightboxes located in the heavily trafficked 42nd Street corridor leading from the terminal's main concourse to the Lexington Avenue subway lines. The exhibit is open to the general public seven days per week, through March 1996.
Computer imaging is used to combine the architectural splendor of Grand Central Terminal with Meisler's aquatic sculptures and underwater photographs taken while diving in the United States, South America and the Caribbean. Commenting on her exhibit, Meisler says "It creates an Atlantis like representation of the terminal as a whimsical underwater environment. The surreal beauty of the manmade and natural worlds are juxtaposed in an effort to focus the viewer on the need to nurture and save our greatest treasures- our resources. Will we continue to grow as a civilization or sink like Atlantis?"
Meisler was a recipient of a New York Foundation For The Arts fellowship in photography. She received a Disney American Teacher Award for her work as an art educator in the NYC public schools. Her collaborative artwork was exhibited in the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial. Mirabella magazine named Meryl Meisler as a woman to watch for the nineties.