Above the Fruited Plain - Carol Bouyoucos
Carol Bouyoucos’s Above the Fruited Plain is a large-scale public artwork installed across the Water Street arches in Peekskill, transforming the site into a vivid, nine-panel “metaphorical garden” of color, fruit, flowers, and layered local imagery. Created digitally and reproduced as monumental vinyl panels, the work combines Bouyoucos’s bright, partially abstract visual language with blue-gray backgrounds drawn from Peekskill’s waterfront, workers, animals, and industrial history, using archival images from the Peekskill Museum. Bouyoucos, a Westchester-based artist who began as a graphic designer before moving into digital fine art, intended the mural to offer “delight,” “peace,” “positivity,” and “beauty” to pedestrians, drivers, and train passengers passing through the city.
