UAP’s North American team worked closely with Lin to explore materials, create digital models & renders, and realise the final incredible work. 22 cast stainless steel branches were welded together to create the artwork’s form, then over 15,500 handblown glass spheres were affixed to the structure. Made within UAP’s Rock Tavern foundry, Lin oversaw the entire making process, from the original mock-up to the final form. Lin’s incredible work is suspended from the Pavilion’s ceilings, and weaves between the ground floor and connector levels within the Pavilion’s atrium. Lin’s site-specific installation was commissioned by Penn Medicine to create a welcoming and vibrant atmosphere for patients and visitors, while connecting the fundamental elements of life and science.Ĭombining DNA and a branches of a tree Maya Lin explores how science and medicine can help us understand the basic foundations of life and to help us unlock these incredibly complex codes in Decoding the Tree of Life. Lin’s 2021 public artwork Decoding the Tree of Life is installed within Penn Medicine’s Pavilion.
Her works explore how people experience and relate to landscape, setting up a systematic ordering of the land that is tied to history, memory, time, and language. As a public art installation, Ghost Forest is somewhat of a departure for Lin, who remains best known for her 1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., but has also created monumental. This public art installation for the CAS will be the first permanent work by New York-based Lin in the City of San Francisco."My approach to this piece is to create something that is uplifting, that has a sense of wonder and beauty… I want to make you aware of your surroundings in the Pavilion, in this beacon of scientific advancement, connecting you to the physical and natural world around you while symbolizing the very essence of life-DNA.” – Maya LinĪmerican artist Maya Lin is known for her large-scale environmental artworks, her architectural installations, and her memorial designs. It was this interest in the natural sciences, as well as a life-long passion for environmental conservation, that prompted Lin to respond to the call for proposals issued by the San Francisco Arts Commission and the California Academy of Sciences in 2006. In Lin’s recent artwork, she has explored new ways of looking at the landscape, utilizing topographical maps, sonar imaging, and other scientific data. The opening of Storm King Wavefield is accompanied by a special exhibition, Maya Lin: Bodies of Water, on view in Storm Kings museum building.The exhibition features roughly a dozen works that reflect the artists interest in water in its various sates. Since then, Lin has designed several other memorials, including the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, and the Women’s Table at Yale University. Her submission was selected from thousands, and her stark, non-representational design became an important landmark for a grieving nation. Lin became well known in 1981, when as a senior at Yale University, she entered the national competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. Maya Lin Builds a Final Monument to the Climate.
Los Angeles Times (May 6, 2021) Moffitt, Evan. How a pandemic year of loss reshaped Maya Lin’s art and architecture. The New Yorker (May 10, 2021) Miranda, Carolina. It is placed on the western facade of the new building designed by Renzo Piano, which is set to open to the public in September 2008. Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest in the Shadow of Shake Shack. The site-specific piece is a topographical imagining of the San Francisco Bay. 3 In drawing attention to the forces that once shaped the Bay. Spark follows renowned artist and architect Maya Lin as she plans, constructs, and installs her sculptural work for the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Maya Lins Under the Laurentide, 2014, is the latest addition to Brown Universitys. “These artworks, what I call … wire landscapes, are drawings in space, and they have to always have a fluid almost hand drawn form to them.” - Maya Lin KQED Public Media for Northern California
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