More than 40 posters are on display inside the lobby of Deutsche Bank on 52nd Street as a part of an exhibit called "Time to Consider: The Arts Respond to 9.11.”

The exhibit was designed to give artists a chance to reflect on the World Trade Center attacks.

“This project is about allowing artists, architects, poets, writers, and graphic designers to respond to the events of 9-11,” said Raymond Gastil, the director of the Van Alen institute. “As a director of an architecture-oriented organization, we were very concerned in the aftermath of the attacks that there needed to be outlets for people to really express what had happened and try and interpret it. And one of the best ways to do that was, in fact, public art.”

Four of the city’s cultural organizations invited artists of different disciplines to submit poster designs.

“I think they all express something different about people's experience Downtown,” said Liz Christensen, director of the Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery, "some being more strident than others and others being quieter reflections. I think that it expresses a broad spectrum of what people felt and are still continuing to feel about the events of 9-11.”

Architect Eric Listin created a poster of video images he shot on September 11 and 12.

“So many of us experienced the tragedy of September 11 on the street, whether we were evacuating from Lower Manhattan, or going to the home of a loved one or a friend to talk, or just walking home from any office,” Listin said. “We were out there on the street and have memories that were picked up there, but they're very difficult memories, because it was such a traumatic set of events.”

With blank bubbles by the pictures where they can write their impressions, his poster allows visitors the time and space to consider, as well.

Listen also created a space for the viewer to respond to the poster directly and spontaneously.

- Stephanie Simon

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Time to Consider: The Arts Respond To 9.11

Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery
31 West 52nd Street (btwn. 5th & 6th Avenues)
Now through March 22
Admission: Free - Must Show ID
www.timetoconsider.org