On May 17, 2017, the Broadway Mall Association celebrated its 30th anniversary with the opening of Joy Brown: On Broadway, a public sculpture exhibition of nine bronze works on the Broadway malls from 72nd Street to 166th Street, organized in cooperation with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and the Morrison Gallery of Kent, CT. This was BMA’s 10th exhibition of public art.

The show opened with a public ribbon-cutting ceremony with the artist on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 11 a.m. at the south entrance of the West 72nd Street subway station, and continued through February 2018.

In Joy Brown on Broadway, the internationally known artist presented nine of her over-life-size, bronze, humanlike figures in traditional sculptural poses. Joy Brown’s rounded forms and natural materials of clay and bronze convey the heavy gravity of stone; the expressions and gestures transcend that weight, suggesting warmth and lightness of being. The influence of the Japanese aesthetic on Joy Brown’s sculpture springs from her childhood in Japan and apprenticeship in traditional Japanese ceramics.