![]() ![]() As a very young child growing up in rural Ohio, Lin developed what she describes as ‘a strong love and respect for the land,’ and this focus on the natural world has translated into a profound body of work that is grounded in empathy. “The exhibition will reveal the roots of her interests. “Maya Lin’s extraordinary career stems from her commitment to history, human rights and the environment,” Moss said. This is the museum’s first “One Life” exhibition dedicated to an Asian American. 30 through April 16, 2023, in the redesigned “One Life” gallery. “One Life: Maya Lin,” curated by Dorothy Moss, the museum’s curator of painting and sculpture, will be on view on the museum’s second floor from Sept. The exhibition will bring together a carefully selected assortment of Lin’s family photographs and personal ephemera to offer additional insight into Lin’s remarkable career. Tracing Lin’s life from childhood to the present, this latest edition of the museum’s “One Life” series will highlight the development of the artist’s approaches and processes through a variety of three-dimensional models, sculptures, sketchbooks and photographs. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced “One Life: Maya Lin,” the first biographical exhibition dedicated to the architect, sculptor, environmentalist, and designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The exhibition is organized by the Hudson River Museum and curated by Miwako Tezuka.Credit: Maya Lin working on Civil Rights Memorial, 1989. The Museum will also be partnering with a variety of organizations such as Riverkeeper, Wave Hill, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema-Yonkers, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, and the Center for the Urban River at Beczak (Sarah Lawrence College) on education programs and art, design, and environmental activities. Programs will include an artist lecture with Maya Lin, a Gallery Tour with Guest Curator Miwako Tezuka, and Sunday Scholar Series lectures with leading art historians and environmental historians and advocates. Visitors of all ages and backgrounds are invited to explore and engage with Lin’s visual interpretations of the world in which we live, the macrocosmic presence of nature, and the impact of our human role within it. To complement Maya Lin: A River Is a Drawing, there is an exhibition catalog (now available in the Museum Shop) and a full menu of interdisciplinary programming. ![]() The exhibition gives form to the macrocosmic workings of nature, as embodied in the Hudson River, and brings its presence in an affective, human scale. As we experience effects of climate change with increasing frequency and intensity, it is urgent to become aware of what happened in the environment before and what is happening to it now. ![]() What Is Missing?- Hudson River Timeline, is a moving timeline composed of text and images narrating habitat changes and population fluctuations of various species in and around the Hudson River throughout history up to the present. A darkened gallery is dedicated to the multi-channel video projection, The exhibition also includes an open-ended and invitational question What is Missing?, Maya Lin’s ongoing interactive digital art project and environmental advocacy movement ( ). The exhibition includes new drawings on paper that magnify points of interest in various waterways around New York as well as encaustic relief sculptures based on the Laurentide Ice Sheet, which condense shapes of glacial changes of past millennial cycles affecting shapes of water as well as land. The marbles follow and defy natural gravity and spread throughout the floor, the walls, and the ceiling. In the adjacent gallery, a flood of approximately 22,000 pale blue-green industrial glass marbles takes on a shape of the grand Hudson River basin in Folding the Hudson, 2018. Continuing to the indoor space and responding to the HRM’s Brutalist building features, The Hudson Bight, 2018, an augmented seafloor map of the Hudson Canyon -a submarine canyon created by the glacial change at the end of the last Ice Age -cascades through the Atrium, a 30-foot installation with contours drawn with webbing wires. ![]()
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