With ‘In the Wind,’ Art House Plans Largest Outdoor Installation in Hudson County History

Lincoln Park will soon crackle with unique banners.

This June, the gorgeous but understated West Side park will be as colorful as a Pantone wheel. Ninety artist-designed flags will flutter in the air near Edgewood Lake for “In the Wind,” an unprecedented installation.

Curator Tina Maneca has a taste for spectacle — she was the one who parked the big metal bull in the middle of Paulus Hook last year — but “In the Wind” promises to be the largest and most impressive show she’s attempted yet. Organizers Art House Productions are calling it the biggest outdoor exhibition in the history of Hudson County

Is it that? Probably. No show in recent memory has claimed more space under the sun than this one will. Many noteworthy New Jersey artists will unfurl one-of-a-kind standards in Lincoln Park, including Morris Museum curator and alcohol ink wizard Bryant Small, the protean, imaginative Anne Novado of Novado Gallery (110 Morgan St.), NAACP Image Award nominee Danielle Scott, EONTA Space (47 DeKalb Ave.) co-founder Dan Peyton, Jersey City Poet Laureate Melida Rodas and Mana Contemporary senior director Kristin DeAngelis. Other notable artists contributing banners to the installation: the historically sensitive Nathalie Kalbach, sculptor in metal Jerome China, the vivid visual storyteller Akil Roper, the energetic and emotionally effulgent painter Tatyana Kazakova, and Andrea McKenna, the talented curator of the gallery at Art House Productions (345 Marin Blvd.). All the flag-wavers in the show are either Hudson County residents or artists maintaining studios here.

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