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Maya
Lin: Systematic Landscapes
Stroum
and East Galleries
April 22 - September 3, 2006 |
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the spring and summer of 2006, the Henry devoted its expansive
Stroum and East Galleries to a dramatic exhibition of new work
by Maya Lin. Systematic Landscapes, organized by Henry
Art Gallery Director Richard Andrews, focuses on a trio of large-scale
sculptural installations that offer a different means for viewers
to encounter and comprehend the landscape. 2x4 Landscape
is a vast hill or wave built of 65,000 boards set on end; Water
Line, a distorted grid in space, can be walked under or
viewed from above. Visitors can walk through Blue Lake Pass,
modeling an actual mountain range near the artist's Colorado
home that is sliced into a grid.
Systematic
Landscapes complements the Confluence
Project, a grand collaboration between Lin, the Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla, the Nez Perce Tribe, the Lewis and
Clark Commemorative Committee of Vancouver/Clark County, and
the Friends of Lewis and Clark of Pacific County. The models
and designs on view mark sites of contact along the Columbia
River between Native Americans and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Maya
Lin has continuously addressed notions of landscape and geologic
phenomena in her work. She has an extraordinary ability to
convey complex and poetic ideas using simple forms and natural
materials. She thinks and works in a scale that relates to
the land. This exhibition is a meditation on our relationship
to landscape, whether direct or reinterpreted via computer
or satellite imagery. Wedding a deep interest in forces and
forms of nature with a long-term investigation into the possibilities
of sculptural form to embody meaning, Systematic Landscapes
offers a rich, immersive experience for visitors. Following
the model of previous Henry exhibitions of the work of Ann
Hamilton and James Turrell, Systematic Landscapes confirms
the museum's commitment to the art of our time and to the
possibilities of contemporary installation art.
This
exhibition was organized for the Henry Art Gallery by Director
Richard Andrews. Major support for this exhibition has been
provided by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, ArtsFund,
The Boeing Company, PONCHO, and donors to the Special Exhibition
Initiative. Additional support provided by Peter Norton Family
Foundation, Kongsgaard-Goldman Foundation, Haas Charitable
Trusts, Simpson Timber Company – Northwest, NBBJ Group,
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Trillium Corporation, and the Washington
State Arts Commission. In-kind support provided by The Seattle
Times, KUOW 94.9, Grant Hyatt Seattle, KrekowJenningsInc.,
Vulcan Inc., and The Stranger.
Tour
Schedule
Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (September 7 - December
30, 2007)
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (March 29 - June 30,
2008)
De Young Museum (October 25, 2008 - January 18, 2009)
For additional tour information, please contact Paul Cabarga,
Exhibitions Manager at paulc@henryart.org.
Image:
Maya Lin. 2 X 4 Landscape. 2006. Wood. Photo: Colleen
Chartier.
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