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Touring Exhibitions |
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Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes
· Hershmanlandia:
The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson
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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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Hershmanlandia:
The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson
November 5, 2005 - February 5, 2006 |
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| The Henry Art Gallery is extremely pleased to
premiere the touring exhibition Hershmanlandia: The Art and Films
of Lynn Hershman Leeson, curated by Robin Held, associate curator,
in December 2005. This timely exhibition presents drawings, paintings,
photographs, performances, robotic works, digital art, videos, films,
interactive multimedia installations, and artificial intelligence
works by the filmmaker and artist, Lynn Hershman Leeson. The trajectory
of her work provides an extraordinary mirror for issues related to
fragmented human subjectivity at the beginning of the 21st century.
Tour
Schedule
For tour information
and itinerary, please contact Paul Cabarga, Exhibitions Manager at paulc@henryart.org.
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