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Madison Square Park Conservancy Announces Alison Saar: Feallen and Fallow

NEW YORK, NY.- Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art announces Feallen and Fallow, a six-piece installation featuring four newly commissioned works by Los Angeles-based artist Alison Saar. Drawing inspiration from the cyclical qualities of life and nature, Saar’s Feallen and Fallow will take park-goer sand visitors on a journey through the four seasons as inspired by the ancient myth of Persephone in the urban oasis that is Madison Square Park. The series will premiere alongside two of the artist’s known Treesouls (1994), standing fourteen feet amidst the Park’s surrounding foliage. Feallen and Fallow is a commission of the award-winning Mad. Sq. Art program, and will remain on view daily from September 22 through December 31, 2011. For the occasion of the Madison Square Park installation, the artist presents four