This new piece anchors a selection of additional sculptural representations of water in various media, including riverways made of steel pins, icebergs made of plaster, water droplets made of glass, and waves made of spruce, pine, and fir. With works from 1994 to today, the exhibition centers on a newly created site-responsive sculptural piece, Marble Chesapeake & Delaware Bay (2022), a breathtaking configuration of glass marbles that map these waterways onto the walls and floor of the gallery. This thematic presentation at Virginia MOCA correlates the global focus of Lin’s artwork to the unique place and time in which it is now being presented-a delicate landscape of regional waterways in the throes of an urgent battle for ecological balance. In so doing, she calls forth the implications of its necessity, accessibility, scarcity, and abundance. Lin often represents water as both pathway and boundary. They not only invite discovery, but also encourage contemplation about the many ways in which we need water and manage its powerful bearings on our environment. ![]() Created with artistic intuition and scientific research, the resulting pieces are compelling in their beauty and multivalence. ![]() Virginia MOCA is pleased to present Maya Lin: A Study of Water, a solo exhibition that brings together a selection of the internationally acclaimed artist’s sculptural interpretations of water spanning several decades.Īs water has always been an important subject of Lin’s environmentally focused artistic practice, works on view evoke its many forms and patterns, including rivers and their rise, oceans and their tides, icebergs and the detriment their melting poses.
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