Maya Lin’s work embraces architecture, sculpture, nature, and ecology, taking a truly original approach to landscape. The spare yet powerful works on view in Maya Lin are imaginative re-creations of natural forms transformed into objects of contemplation. These sculptures and drawings are both beautiful in their own right and provide surprising glimpses into aspects of nature—geographic forms, rivers, and inland seas—that are often unseen. Ranging from room-sized installations evoking mountainous topography to delicate wall installations of silver pins tracing the flow of American rivers, Lin’s works evoke her own unique experience of the environment while encouraging visitors to consider the physicality of the world in which we live and our symbiotic existence with nature.
Maya Lin
Hall of Architecture
Feb. 11–May 13, 2012
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