![]() ![]() Lin transforms data gathered by scientific expeditions into a three-dimensional, suspended-wire line-drawing, enabling viewers to pass beneath the undulating terrain.īlue Lake Pass refers to a specific area of south-western Colorado familiar to the artist from family vacations. Water Line is a scale map of the ocean floor along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge as it ascends to Bouvet Island, one of the world’s remotest places, located roughly 1,600 kilometres (1,000 miles) north of Antarctica. Lin is represented in the book with her 2006 work Water Line and Blue Lake Pass, comprising aluminium tubing and duraflake particle board. For these two installations – displayed as part of Three Ways of Looking at the Earth in 2009 – the American artist used models, grids and topographic drawings as well as more advanced technology (sonar and radar mapping, satellite photographs) to study parts of the world that are inaccessible or impossible to observe in their entirety. There's also a great interview with the writer of its foreword, here. Lin explores aspects of the natural world through sculpture and drawing, focusing on mapping as a way to translate the enormity of a place to a scale that we can see and understand. And she's just one of the many artists featured in our extraordinarily beautiful new book Map Exploring the World which you can read more about here. Anyone who caught her magnificent Pace Gallery show Here and There a couple of years back in either London and New York can't have been anything but transfixed by her study of the natural phenomena of both cities rendered in exquisite and highly detailed fine applications of silver, marble and wood. But the work of American artist and designer Maya Lin has always been a particular favourite of ours here at. Jasper Johns was perhaps the most famous exponent of the map in art - though Alighiero Boetti probably runs him a close second. Our latest look at an artist from Map Exploring the World making their own innovative and uncharted explorationĪs you doubtless know, maps have always been used for artistic purposes - for no other reason perhaps than their very shape lends itself well to artistic expression and reimagination. Lin is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York City.Water Line and Blue Lake Pass - Maya Lin Installation view PaceWildenstein, New York The Art of the Map - Maya Lin Maya Lin: Three Ways of Looking at the Earth, Selections from Systematic Landscapes was shown most recently at The Pace Gallery (formerly PaceWildenstein) in September 2009. Lin's current exhibition Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes originated at Henry Art Gallery in Seattle and is the first to translate the scale and immersive capacity of her outdoor installations to the interior space of a museum. Her studio artwork has been shown in solo and group museum exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. She has made works that merge completely with the terrain, blurring the boundaries between two- and three-dimensional space and set up a systematic ordering of the land tied to history, language, and time. ![]() Lin has consistently explored how we experience the landscape. Her works address how we relate and respond to the environment, and presents new ways of looking at the world around us.įrom recent environmental works such as Storm King Wavefield, Where the Land Meets the Sea and Eleven Minute Line to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, where she cut open the land and polished its edges to create a history embedded in the earth, Ms. Lin takes micro and macro views of the earth, sonar resonance scans, aerial and satellite mapping devices and translates that information into sculptures, drawings and environmental installations. ![]() Utilizing technological methods to study and visualize the natural world, Ms. She peers curiously at the landscape through a twenty-first century lens, merging rational and technological order with notions of beauty and the transcendental. Landscape is the context and the source of inspiration for Ms. ![]() Maya Lin has maintained a careful balance between art and architecture throughout her career, creating a remarkable body of work that includes large-scale site-specific installations, intimate studio artworks, architectural works and memorials. Maya Lin is currently working on what is her final memorial, What is Missing? which focuses on bringing awareness to the current crisis surrounding biodiversity and habitat loss. ![]()
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