Here & There – New York. Installation View. Courtesy Pace Gallery
When Maya Lin (American, b. 1959) created “Storm King Wavefield” in 2009, she was in sync with the mores of late 1960s artists including Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Dennis Oppenheim and Robert Smithson, each of them prominent in the Earthworks or Land Art movement. Lin’s “Wavefield” is an undulating terrain of grasses rolling across an eleven-acre site within the five hundred-acre sculpture park in Mountainville, New York. Continue reading
She works with plant stalks and grasses; airborne seeds from thistles, ivy, dandelions and cattails; and tree blossoms. She finds her materials in the Italian countryside or the city of Cologne, Germany “on the periphery of urban agglomeration” as she rides her bicycle to the studio. Christiane Löhr’s mediums don’t have the vast physical scale of 1960s and 1970s Earthworks or the political expressions of Land Art. Rather through quiet natural plant materials, Löhr (born in 1965 in Wiesbaden) creates delicate sculpture which pulls elements of the landscape indoors. “In gathering the plants, I take them out of the cycle of growth and decay,” she wrote in a recent email message. 
