Maya Lin’s three installations, each created out of a single material, and each revealing something new and startling about the planet we inhabit, seek to enlighten viewers by challenging their psychological and physical relationship with the natural world. Bouvet Island is depicted as the highest point of the installation, and at certain points, visitors are at eye level with what is meant to be sea level, thus heightening the experience of the changing terrain as it moves from air to water to earth. The result is a 19' x 34' 8" x 29' 2" suspended, painted aluminum wire lin drawing that invites viewers to pass underneath and around a landscape hidden miles beneath the ocean. Working with scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, Lin created a topographic rendering based on research gathered by scientific expeditions of the ocean floor. Water Line maps the ocean floor along the Mid-Atlantic ridge as it ascends to Bouvet Island, one of the most remote islands in the world, located roughly 1,000 miles to the north of Antarctica. Lin imposed a 3 x 3 foot grid on the topography, which was then scaled down and sectioned into 20 individual units that form narrow passageways through the mountain pass. The installation’s pixilated form, consisting of over 50,000 vertical two-by-four pieces of Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) certified wood, resembles a wave or hill that swells to 10 feet high at its peak and occupies a total of 1,900 square feet.īased on terrain from the Rocky Mountains, Blue Lake Pass explores a specific region of Southwestern Colorado that is personally familiar to Lin, whose family vacations there each summer. Lin further transforms viewers’ perspectives about the land and the sea by inviting them to navigate around, through and under these site-related installations.Ģ x 4 Landscape was initially conceived by Lin as a way to bring landscape into an architectural setting. In Three Ways of Looking at the Earth, Lin has subjected three very different topographies (two real and one imagined) to dramatic shifts in scale that allow a re-imagining of our natural world as three-dimensional environments recreated in the interior space of a gallery. Maya Lin has stated that her “creative process balances analytic study, based very much on research, with, in the end, a purely intuited gesture.” She employs tools such as models, grids, and topographic drawings as well as more advanced scientific technology (sonar and radar mapping, satellite photographs) to study and respond to regions of the natural world that are largely inaccessible, and often times, impossible to experience or observe with the naked eye. An opening reception will be held on Wednesday, September 23rd from 6-8 p.m. The artist will be present for an opening reception on Thursday, September 10th from 5:30-7:30 p.m.Ĭoncurrently, Salon 94 (94th Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues) will present Maya Lin: Recycled Landscapes, a selection of Lin’s smaller sculptures made from recycled materials from September 24 through November 13, 2009. A catalogue published on the occasion of Lin’s exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery with essays by the museum’s director and curator Richard Andrews, John Beardsley, and a foreword by Lawrence Weschler will accompany the exhibition. Maya Lin: Three Ways of Looking at the Earth is the artist’s first solo exhibition at PaceWildenstein since joining the gallery in 2008. NEW YORK, August 6, 2009-PaceWildenstein is pleased to announce an exhibition of three large-scale environmental installations by Maya Lin, selected from her recent traveling museum exhibition Systematic Landscapes, on view at 545 West 22nd Street, New York City from September 10 through October 24, 2009. Maya Lin’s other projects include the newly opened Museum of Chinese in America, Bodies of Water, currently on view at Storm King Art Center, and the inauguration of her final public memorial What is Missing? A selection of large-scale installations from Systematic Landscapes will go on view at PaceWildenstein’s 22nd Street location in early September
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