By Olivia Scheck
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — A new High Line art exhibit is putting a novel twist on an all too common image.
The installation, "Space Available" by artist Kim Beck, features three sculptures that appear to be the skeletal frameworks of empty advertising billboards.
In fact, they're flat, perspectival cutouts, similar to the background sets used in Broadway plays.
Beck hopes that the pieces will create "a disorienting illusion that flattens out as one passes by," according to her website.
The sculptures are also meant to "emulate the abounding indicators of the economic recession, such as empty storefronts and 'For Sale' signs," a description on the High Line website explained.
"Space Available" will be displayed on rooftops near the High Line, on Washington Street between West 13th and Gansevoort Streets, through January 2012.
