![]() Louis Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes, organized by the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle, traveled to Contemporary Art Museum, St. ![]() The artist is also working on a permanent installation, An Ecological Primer, at Oberlin College, where one of three proposed elements has already been installed. and Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, among others. Lin’s work is held in numerous public collections worldwide, including the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Columbus Museum of Art Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Minneapolis Institute of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona Nevada Museum of Art, Reno Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Toledo Museum of Art Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. She is at work on her final memorial, What is Missing?, raising awareness about habitat loss and biodiversity. Her numerous awards include receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation’s highest civilian honor, in 2016 from President Barack Obama, the 2009 National Medal of the Arts conferred by President Obama andthe 2014 GishPrize for her contributions to art and social change. Blurring boundaries between two- and three-dimensional space, Lin sets up a systematic ordering of the landscape tied to history, time, science and language. 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. 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.
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