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| Maya Lin, Wavefield |
'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.
Landscape is the context and the source of inspiration for Ms. Lin's art. She peers curiously at the landscape through a twenty-first century lens, merging rational and technological order with notions of beauty and the transcendental. Utilizing technological methods to study and visualize the natural world, 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. Her works address how we relate and respond to the environment, and presents new ways of looking at the world around us.
From 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 has consistently explored how we experience the landscape. 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.
Her architectural works have included institutional and private commissions, from a chapel and library for the Children's Defense Fund to the Sculpture Center's space in Long Island City to Aveda's headquarters in downtown Manhattan to private residences throughout the Country. Ms. Lin completed the design for the Museum of Chinese in America's new space in Manhattan's Chinatown, which opened in the spring of 2009.
Maya Lin has been drawn to the critical social and historical issues of our time and addressed them in her memorials, including the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington DC, the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, AL, the Women's Table at Yale University. Currently she is working on the Confluence Project, a multi-sited installation spanning the Columbia River system in the Pacific Northwest that intertwines the history of Lewis and Clark with the history of the Native American tribes who inhabit those regions. With a critical eye toward the environmental changes that have rapidly occurred, Ms. Lin's Confluence Project has brought significant ecological restoration to six state and national parks along the Columbia River Basin. It is an ongoing project with three of the six sites completed. For more information visit www.confluenceproject.com.' -www.mayalin.com
- VERBAL PRESENTATIONS
- Share + Listen to Artist Statements
- Attend Final Exam
- Present Artwork + Statement
- Be a respectful audience member
- 4 Vessels, 4 Surface Treatments - Due Friday 12.9.11 400 pt
- Sgrafitto/Incising, Additive, Image on surface, Choice
- Include at least one lid, spout, + handle throughout 4 forms
- Choice Project - Due Friday 12.16.11 100 pt
- Choose a material, process, and design to execute in 4 studio days that reflects your style. Click links for ideas!
- Clay Sculpture (no glaze/ no fire?)
- Found object sculpture
- Wire sculpture
- Paper Mache
- Artist Inspired Designs
- Mobile (suspended sculpture)
- Installation (design a sculptural space)
- Grade based on: Problem Solving, Risk Taking, Technique, Craftsmanship, Composition, + Studio Participation
- Portfolio- Due Friday 12.16.11 50 pt view sample portfolio
- Photograph each piece from semester + place into ppt with label:
- Title
- medium
- size
- Artist Statement - Due Friday 12.16.11 50 pt
- Review artwork + find similarities in work to discuss in 200+ word statement pasted in first slide of portfolio
- Content + Concept: what does your work look like? what they mean or represent?
- Materials + Processes: how the piece is your work typically created?
- Analysis: apply 3+ Elements of Art + Principles of Design to design - be specific and provide examples from actual artworks
- Inspiration: why do you work this way? what images, subjects, artworks, people, or experiences inspire your ideas?
- Judgement: what is most successful about your design craftsmanship, aesthetic, + technique? How would you improve or revisit the idea in the future?
- Studio Assignment - 100%
- 4X4x5 INCH TERRA COTTA SCULPTURE
- View work for the http://www.fhs.d211.org/departments/art/2008.9/4x5/index.html
- Design + fabricate a small scale sculpture representative of your STYLE based on previous projects in class
- Use terra cotta clay, build solid, and dig out
- MAD HATTER TEAPOT Greenware: due Thurs 12.8 | Glazing: due Wed 12.14 view full assignment
- Design
- 4-6 inches height + width
- unique surface treatment
- excellent craftsmanship
- personalized aesthetic (style)
- original design
- Function
- spout
- handle
- lid with handle + lip
- TEAPOT | ARTIST STATEMENT {500+ words addressing the following topics} Due Friday 12.16.11 view more tips here!
- Content + Concept
- what does it look like?
- what does the piece mean or represent?
- Materials + Processes
- how the piece was created?
- Analysis
- apply 3+ Elements of Art + Principles of Design to design - be specific and provide examples
- Inspiration
- why did you make this piece?
- what images, subjects, artworks, people, or experiences inspired the idea?
- Judgement
- success of design craftsmanship, aesthetic, + technique?
- how would you improve the piece in the future?
