Maya Lin has unveiled her redesign of the Smith College Library in Northampton, MA, returning some of the original concepts and ideas for the campus that were developed by planner Frederick Law Olmsted.  “We basically get to give the heart of the campus back to Smith,” she says. “It was a reductivist scheme. Less is more.” (more…)

Maya Lin is the subject of a lengthy profile in the New York Review of Books, charting the artist’s progression from her early work designing the Vietnam War Memorial, to her recent land works and sculptures.   (more…)

 The Smithsonian will present its first Portrait of a Nation Prize, created “to celebrate the achievements of individuals who’ve contributed significantly to the United States’s cultural imagination” this month, with artist and architect Maya Lin included among the honorees. (more…)

Artist and architect Maya Lin is profiled in the Wall Street Journal this week, as she prepares to complete a series of projects, and reflects on her work over the past several decades.  “There’s a very strong environmental aspect to all my structures,” she says, and notes her work in both architecture and fine art, comparing architecture to writing a novel, while comparing a piece of art to a poem.  “They’re both incredibly difficult and challenging, but sometimes that poem is harder…because I’m stripping it bare.” (more…)

Artist and architect Maya Lin has been awarded the Gish Prize, in recognition of her “outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind’s enjoyment and understanding of life.”  The $300,000 first prize will be given on November 12th at MoMA. (more…)

Artist and architect Maya Lin is profiled in the New York Times, and discusses her new show at Pace Gallery, her recent work, and her thoughts on the environmental catastrophe’s caused by Hurricane Sandy last year, when much of Downtown New York was flooded. “A flood doesn’t exist except in our memory banks,” she said. “It’s a temporal event. It’s not the river and it’s not the land. It’s neither here nor there.” (more…)

Maya Lin’s ‘Three Ways of Looking at the Earth’ via PaceWildenstein

Maya Lin’s first solo exhibition with PaceWildenstein, ‘Three Ways of Looking at the Earth,’ is currently on view in New York.  The exhibition includes three large-scale installations, excerpted from her museum show ‘Systematic Landscapes,’ which premiered at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle in 2006.  The sculptures look at different topographies, two real and one imagined, in a dramatic downshift of scale, allowing viewers to experience inaccessible or impossible landscapes in an unfamiliar perspective, challenging their relationship to the natural world. Lin remarked in the catalog essay for ‘Systematic Landscapes,’ “A strong respect and love for the land exists throughout my work.  I cannot remember a time when I was not concerned with environmental issues or when I did not feel humbled by the beauty of the natural world….these works are a response to that beauty.”

Maya Lin Studio
Maya Lin: Three Ways of Looking at the Earth [PaceWildenstein]
Maya Lin: Three Ways of Looking at the Earth [The Scout]
Maya Lin: Three Ways of Looking at the Earth [L Magazine]
Three Ways of Looking at the Earth [Examiner]

Maya Lin’s ‘Three Ways of Looking at the Earth’ via Maya Lin Studio

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