PRUDENTIAL CENTER

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY

Sports & The Arts worked with New Jersey Devils owner Jeffrey Vanderbeek to create a fine art destination within the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ.

During the course of this project, SATA sourced and procured over 200 pieces of commissioned, original fine art, scouting local talent and art school students to help bring the community into the process. Sports & The Arts discovered and recruited artists from across the U.S. and Canada to add their distinct mark to the collection.

A central piece to this curation is “The Mural”, a 185' x 30' mural housed on the main concourse level of the arena. Hand painted by Pittsburgh’s own Tom Mosser, this sprawling mural depicts famous New Jersey sports figures, both past and present, as well as familiar New Jersey locales such as the Capitol Building in Trenton and the carousel of Atlantic City. Over fifty incarnations of this mural were considered before the final layout was selected, and the piece was the largest free-form mural in the United States at that time.

A central piece to this curation is “The Mural”, a 185' x 30' mural housed on the main concourse level of the arena. Hand painted by Pittsburgh’s own Tom Mosser, this sprawling mural depicts famous New Jersey sports figures, both past and present, as well as familiar New Jersey locales, such as the Capitol Building in Trenton and the carousel of Atlantic City. Tom’s ambidextrous impressionism allows him to paint with both hands at the same time.

Artworks were repurposed into exterior graphics to generate excitement about the new building.

This installation, located in the Ice Bar, features black and whtie photography by Andrew Bernstein is the ideal complement to The Mural, seen in the background.