Who is maya lin

Maya Lin has published several books and is currently working on different architectural and sculptural projects.

Coleman, Jonathan. Hess, Elizabeth. Danto, Arthur. Lin, Maya. New York: Simon and Schuster, Yokoe, Lynn. Maya Lin, Architect. Toggle navigation. Family and childhood Maya Ying Lin was born on October 5, , in Athens, Ohio, a manufacturing and agricultural town seventy-five miles southeast of Columbus. For More Information Coleman, Jonathan. User Contributions: 1. I am doing a report on Maya Lin in my Art class. I really love her work, she is a very influencal artist!

I agree. I can't wait until my class goes to D. Her design for the Vietnam Memorial was simple, yet elegant. Like a Christmas ornament. This is one of the best written pieces I have ever read. I hope many other people read it and learn all about Maya Lin and all of her great works. The central ice skating rink is water in its solid form, the mist fountain represents water in its vapor form, and finally, the table-like fountain represents water in its liquid form.

Photo by Maya Lin. Flow , a seven-sculpture exhibit also inspired by water, is on display at the Grand Rapids Art Museum through September 8. The fifteen-foot outline is comprised of tens of thousands of silver pins inserted into the wall that create this beautiful image. They pull you in and make you want to spend time observing them. Lin is very engaged in environmental issues. Her newest piece of art is titled What is Missing? This will be an iconic memorial dedicated to the environment, and according to Lin, is her final piece of artwork.

She speaks often of how one goal of her work is to get people to look at the landscape in different ways and how the landscape relates to the health and vitality of environments today. Lin and her team dropped bucket after bucket of broken glass onto the rooftop areas with a boom crane, filling the pockets of the building until the work was complete.

In an approach that was absolutely consistent with her earlier projects, as well as her background as an architect, Lin incorporated the entire building into her design, applying her comprehensive vision to all areas of the Wexner Center. This work bears the hallmark of her approach as an architect and artist, regardless of space, nature, material, and application.

Her vision remains holistic, compassionate, all-encompassing, and always highly analytical. Designed for the FXB Aerospace Building on the University of Michigan campus, this outdoor sculptural installation engages one of Lin's earliest and most fundamental passions: science.

Specifically inspired by the movement of water, the work is about fluidity. A three-month study of fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, and turbulence, conducted by the artist on site, preceded the work. While visibly indebted to other large-scale Earth Works Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty comes to mind , alignment between the conceptual and formal properties of Lin's work is much closer.

For example, its precise 90' by 90' grid of rising crests mimics that of a naturally occurring wave. Lin selected a particular wave type that brought together all areas she had been researching, including fluid dynamics, flight resistance, and turbulence. Literally part of the ground on which the artist designed it, this delightful sculpture is at once playful and intellectual.

Walking across it is quite different from viewing it through the window of one of the adjacent classrooms. It changes throughout the day as the sun passes and shadows emerge on different parts of it, achieving Lin's goal to highlight the interconnectedness between art and landscape. While evident even in her earliest sculptures, Lin's conviction that her work should be an homage to earth has grown stronger over the years. In , she designed an interior landscape that worked its way from the outside into the center of an office building in Minneapolis, transforming the American Express Client Service Center into an installation, an Earth Work, and an architectural form that defies categorization.

In the building's central atrium, a 28 by 55 foot sculpture with an undulating wood surface lifts off the ground and seems to travel toward the viewer, bearing grass and trees. The fluidity this structure, an intentional element of surprise, relates to Wave Field in thwarting our expectation that the ground in public space should lie flat.

The installation also includes a "water wall," and an indoor and outdoor winter garden. There are olive trees on the inside of the building and indigenous river birch on the outside. The water wall appears to be flowing from the inside out and culminates in a pool. The wall freezes during the winter months, offering visitors an indication of the temperature outside. In blurring the boundaries between inside and outside space, the work is designed to raise awareness of the environment, even in a major metropolitan center.

Lin's interests range widely, from the most advanced concepts in science to the very earliest artists on earth. According to the artist, her objective in this foot-high 1,foot-long curving line of earth was to make a three-dimensional drawing. This site-specific work was created for the pasture of one of the largest organic dairy farms in Northern Europe, near Wanas castle now the Wanas Foundation.

As an American abroad, Lin saw a captivating similarity between the early burial mounds of Europe and those in her homeland of the United States, and sought to elaborate on that connection. Lin had long had an interest in the Native American burial and effigy mounds in her home state of Ohio. It is a visible source of inspiration for this work, part drawing, part sculpture, which Lin describes as, "somewhere between a line and a walk.

She then created a topographic model of the site from which she transferred her gravel drawing to the permanent sloping pasture, an elaborate process that relied on her skill as a draftsman and cartographer another one of her passions.

Lin situated the final piece so as to be visible from multiple angles, from the road and nearby buildings. Consistent with Lin's interest in evoking landscape and transforming interior space, Water Line reveals part of the earth that was inaccessible in its entirety.

While to the untrained eye this looks like a tangle of aluminum wire, it is actually a meticulously constructed three-dimensional model of one the most remote locations on the planet: the ocean floor sitting along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that rises to form Bouvet Island, about 1, miles north of Antarctica. Using the most advanced technologies of the time models, grids, topographical drawings, sonar, radar mapping and satellite photographs Lin studied this small piece of the world and created what is essentially a room-sized line drawing of it, measuring 34'10" x 29'2" x 19'.

This work is part of an installation called Systematic Landscapes , the first presentation of her work within the confines of a museum. Always drawn to nature, as a mature artist, Lin has gravitated to sites of natural wonder, in works that seek to highlight the extraordinary fragility of earth's ecosystem.

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