The talents of Maya Lin in the field of visual arts and the built environment know no boundaries. Early on in her career, she was already able to break down the stereotypes of how architectural public spaces should be. To date, Maya Lin continues to explore different aspects of visual representation through design, architecture, sculpture, crafts and design philosophy.
Maya Lin was born on October 5, 1959, in Athens, Ohio to Chinese migrant parents. Artistry, creative and deep thinking runs in the family. Her father worked with ceramics and was also a former dean of the Fine Arts department of Ohio University. Her mother was a poet and taught literature in the same university. Maya was also the niece of Lin Huiyin, who was claimed to be the …show more content…
After the famed Vietnam Veterans Memorial, she worked on the design of the Civil Rights Memorial in Alabama in 1989. In 1993, her design for the land sculpture of Groundswell at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus was influenced by her study of the Zen gardens and the Native American earth-mounds. This site-specific work was created with the use of 43 tons of recycled glass. New York City’s Penn station was also touched by Maya’s artistry when she created Eclipsed Time in 1994. Inspired by the occurrence of a solar eclipse, this ceiling installation made of steel, moving aluminum disk and glass disk moves back and forth to reflect the natural passing of the day. In 1995, she created a land sculpture called the Wave Field at the University of Michigan. By studying a series of satellite and aerial photographs, topographic map and exploring the ideas of fluid dynamics, she was able to turn a ten thousand square foot of grassland into a …show more content…
In 2001, she completed her work entitled “Ecliptic” a 3.5-acre park in downtown Grand Rapids. In 2007, created an installation at the Indianapolis Museum of Art entitled “Above and Below.” Her first art sculpture entitled “Silver River” completed in 2009 is one of the main backdrops of the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Her most recent projects include an installation in the Bicentennial Park in Athens, Ohio, the Riggio-Lynch Chapel, the Arts Plaza in Irvine, California, and “A Fold in the Field”, a 30,000-square meter earth art in New Zealand. She was also the artist and architect of a long-running series of outdoor installations in Washington and Oregon entitled
Maya Lin was born on October 5, 1959, in Athens, Ohio to Chinese migrant parents. Artistry, creative and deep thinking runs in the family. Her father worked with ceramics and was also a former dean of the Fine Arts department of Ohio University. Her mother was a poet and taught literature in the same university. Maya was also the niece of Lin Huiyin, who was claimed to be the …show more content…
After the famed Vietnam Veterans Memorial, she worked on the design of the Civil Rights Memorial in Alabama in 1989. In 1993, her design for the land sculpture of Groundswell at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus was influenced by her study of the Zen gardens and the Native American earth-mounds. This site-specific work was created with the use of 43 tons of recycled glass. New York City’s Penn station was also touched by Maya’s artistry when she created Eclipsed Time in 1994. Inspired by the occurrence of a solar eclipse, this ceiling installation made of steel, moving aluminum disk and glass disk moves back and forth to reflect the natural passing of the day. In 1995, she created a land sculpture called the Wave Field at the University of Michigan. By studying a series of satellite and aerial photographs, topographic map and exploring the ideas of fluid dynamics, she was able to turn a ten thousand square foot of grassland into a …show more content…
In 2001, she completed her work entitled “Ecliptic” a 3.5-acre park in downtown Grand Rapids. In 2007, created an installation at the Indianapolis Museum of Art entitled “Above and Below.” Her first art sculpture entitled “Silver River” completed in 2009 is one of the main backdrops of the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Her most recent projects include an installation in the Bicentennial Park in Athens, Ohio, the Riggio-Lynch Chapel, the Arts Plaza in Irvine, California, and “A Fold in the Field”, a 30,000-square meter earth art in New Zealand. She was also the artist and architect of a long-running series of outdoor installations in Washington and Oregon entitled