Katie Merz’s ‘glyphs’ make Williamsburg development a selfie magnet
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Selfie magnet.
Brooklyn-born artist Katie Merz has turned a façade of a Williamsburg residential conversion into a gigantic canvas for mesmerizing pictograms.
She has covered a black, three-story wall of the property at 347 Berry St. with tightly packed drawings of tiny figures and phrases, drawn in white. They are called “glyphs.”
This isn’t graffiti. It’s an art wall Merz was hired to create, which makes the rental-apartment development, which is called the Ice Cream Factory, a visual standout.
The hallucinatory black and white art work stands in stark contrast to silvery-colored cladding on the rest of the façade.
The glyphs are on the S. 5th Street side of the property, right across from the Williamsburg Bridge.