By
Nina Boesch
Piece description from the artist
This collage of the Apollo Theater in Harlem has been made from used and expired NYC subway tickets. Nina Boesch is a Brooklyn-based recycle artist and has been using subway tickets as her medium of choice since 2001. The process to create a collage from cut-up subway tickets includes cutting them up into tiny pieces, sorting them by color, and rearranging the pieces into new designs before gluing them down. It can take between 8 hours for a letter-sized collage and up to 100 hours to create larger canvasses. Nina's collage themes range from landmarks and city scenes to celebrity portraits and animals but are solely made from subway tickets.
Nina Boesch was born in 1978 in Bremen, Germany. When she was 22, after a 3-year interaction design apprenticeship, she moved to the U.S. where she earned a BFA with honors in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Today, Boesch works as a UX design director at the renown experience design firm Local Projects in Manhattan and spends her spare time in her art studio working on collages and paintings.
Boesch’s MetroCard collages have been exhibited in group and solo exhibits in the U.S. and Germany and her work has been recognized in publications such as The Daily News, the Huffington Post, Business Insider, Design Taxi, UK Mirror, News Australia, and others.
Nina's design work has won awards from the most prestigious design organizations in the world, including the Art Directors Club, the Type Directors Club, the AIGA, and Adobe.
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