![]() In her sculpture and drawing, Lin merges rational order with notions of beauty. Her artwork interprets the world through a twenty-first century lens, utilizing technological methods to study and visualize the natural environment. 1959, Athens, Ohio) acclaimed work encompasses large-scale environmental installations, intimate studio artworks, architectural projects and memorials. Drawn together, the new works reflect Lin’s ongoing interest in capturing the different states and constant flux of our world’s most essential element. In other works, such as Where the Water Flows North (2017) Lin uses steel pins set into the gallery wall to create a three-dimensional drawing that illustrates the dispersion and movement of waterways. Using recycled silver, Lin evokes water through the silver’s smooth and reflective qualities, and symbolically portrays a finite resource with a recycled material. The exhibition includes two new Silver River works depictingthe Nile and Columbia Rivers. The works in Ebb and Flow map the water at Victoria Falls, in the Nile River, the Arctic, and the Antarctic and translate its presence into humanly scaled comprehensible forms. I wanted to capture some of those events: ‘Can we stop time? Can we freeze a moment in something that is always in flux? Can I reveal aspects of the natural world that you may not even realize are shifting?’” And especially now with human development and climate change, the world is being altered at an incredible pace-from rising seas, disappearing polar ice, to our major rivers and estuaries and how they have been changed by us. I'm very interested in the shifting flux of things. “Maybe it's because it exists in multiple states, and you can never understand it in nature as a fixed moment in time.The new show coming up at Pace is about the transitory state of water, and of the earth itself. “I've always been fixated on water,” says Lin. Lin’s fourth exhibition with Pace since she joined the gallery in 2008, Ebb and Flow is on view at 537 West 24th Street from September 8 through October 7, 2017. The exhibition includes wall and floor pieces made from recycled silver, glass marbles, steel pins, and marble. A series of encaustic relief sculptures based on the Laurentide Ice Sheet, which condense shapes of glacial changes of past millennial cycles and represent the colossal effects of climate change that continue to shape our environment.Pace Gallery is pleased to present Maya Lin: Ebb and Flow featuring 9 new installations and sculptures that continue the artist’s ongoing investigation of water in its different states. ![]() New drawings on paper that magnify points of interest in various rivers around the world with which she has thus far intimately engaged for artistic creations, including, and most significantly, relating to Lin’s own “habitat,” the Hudson.“ What Is Missing?“-an updated version of the room-size, multi-channel video installation Empty Room (2009), part of Maya Lin’s ongoing interactive digital art project and environmental advocacy movement and a work she refers to as her “last memorial”.A 35-foot piece will cascade through the Museum’s Atrium, an augmented seafloor map of the Hudson Canyon with contours drawn with webbing wires.Lin will create a drawing in silver in the HRM Veranda, an overhang looking out to the river vista, connecting existing cracks, holes, bumps on the grounds, visually connecting the Museum’s campus to the river.A majestic and immersive installation from grass bamboo stalks in the form of a 3D drawing of the Hudson River basin will be in the Museum Courtyard.The exhibition will be presented in seven sections, with all of the new works created along the theme of the Hudson River. With the Museum’s architectural features and location along the banks of the river as a potent backdrop, Lin will create a series of new works and ambitious site-specific installations that invite visitors to interact. Maya Lin: A River Is a Drawing is a groundbreaking exhibition developed in close collaboration between the HRM and this visionary artist, focusing on the theme of the Hudson River. ![]()
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