Isabelle Garbani

Brooklyn based artist Isabelle Garbani stands on the same spot of the subway platform every evening, next to the second trash can, waiting for the train. She watches the express trains go by through the gap in the two rusted pillars. She is hot and exhausted, lined up exactly with the exit stairs as the train pulls into her stop. Once home, Garbani records on paper what is was like to stand in that spot of the Brooklyn subway, at that moment in June of 2006.

Garbani received an MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2004. She has since exhibited her artwork throughout the New York metropolitan area and the Northeast. In addition, Garbani has collaborated with choreographer Adrienne Fadjo on her dance project "the Muse," by life-casting on stage. She has also curated exhibitions, including the New York Academy of Art Alumni Association Holiday Exhibit. In 2010, Garbani's artwork "Riders" appeared in the New York Times as part of the "Art of the MetroCard" exhibition.

Currently, Garbani is working on her Public Art Installation "Knit for Trees" at the Sculpture Garden in Governors Island, New York. She sets up a work table and collects unwanted plastic shopping bags which are then cut and used as yarns to knit sweaters, scarves, and mittens for the trees of the island.