
People’s Instinctive Travels: Homage to the Tribe (2019) © Eamon Ore-Giron, NYCT Bay Pkwy. Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design. Photo: Peter Peirce.
Ore-Giron’s piece translates six original oil paintings into twenty-four glass mosaic panels. The abstract works pay homage (as the title notes) to hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest. Their debut 1990 album, People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, combined jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll samples with positive-minded, Afrocentric lyrics, a sub-movement of late 1980s and early 1990s hip-hop found in the Native Tongues collective. Learn more about this piece and view more photographs on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority website.