Highway 407 Station

David Pearl has been working with the Highway 407 Station team to provide public art at the station.

The art is integrated into the glazing at two locations: the subway box skylight and the bus terminal glazing. The locations have been chosen in order to anchor the connection between the terminal elements while providing a focal point for internal and external users of the station, visible from internally, the parking lot and Jane Street.

"Sky Ellipse”

"The moving projections of colour will animate the entire subway station but as you see the glazing plane, the surface has to be dynamic to the eye as well. The brush stroke/ palette knife texture of the colour application is an essential character of the work. It would be different if he light and colour was spilling in from somewhere above not seen, but here the colour needs a graphic language.” -David Pearl

“Facing West”

“I wanted to find a colour and form that harmonized with the spirit of the building: an extension of it into direct expression. I am reminded of Peter Cook’s recent book ‘Drawing - the motive force of architecture’: that drawing, the hand, lies at the heart of all our creativity. There is a narrative here, one of colour: and the delight of the gesture, but at a scale and simplicity that embrace an entire space in one move. And there is the narrative of the user also, in motion through the building. This is why I would like to make connections between spaces with the work, to participate in how the space is performed” -David Pearl