{"id":1634,"date":"2022-08-08T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T04:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2022-08-08T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T04:09:09","slug":"maya-lin-star-architect-who-created-d-c-vietnam-memorial-will-create-public-art-for-obama-presidential-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/maya-lin-star-architect-who-created-d-c-vietnam-memorial-will-create-public-art-for-obama-presidential-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Lin, Star Architect Who Created D.C. Vietnam Memorial, Will Create Public Art for Obama Presidential Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"auto-tag_maya-lin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\" data-tag=\"maya-lin\">Maya Lin<\/a>, whose elegant blend of art, architecture, and landscape has won worldwide acclaim, has been tapped to create an installation for the campus of the\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_obama-presidential-center\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\" data-tag=\"obama-presidential-center\">Obama Presidential Center<\/a>. The work will be placed in the Water Garden, named for former president Barack Obama\u2019s mother, Ann Dunham.<\/p>\n<p>Titled\u00a0<em>Seeing Through the Universe<\/em>, the sculpture will \u201cfeature an upright \u2018oculus\u2019\u201d piece that mists and a flat \u201cpebble\u201d piece that fills with water and then cascades over,\u201d according to the Center\u2019s website. A project of the Obama Foundation, the Center broke ground in September 2021 and is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expected to open to the public in 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we thought about what may be a fitting way to commemorate my mother\u2019s influence on my sister and me, I thought about where she would want to be in this space,\u201d Barack Obama said in a statement. \u201cI could picture her sitting on one of the benches on a nice summer afternoon, smiling and watching a bunch of kids running through the fountain, and I thought that would capture who she was as well as just about anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lin is among the most-sought after architects in the United States, with commissions including the Neilson Library at Smith College,\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Museum of Chinese in America<\/a>\u00a0in Manhattan, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Civil Rights Memorial<\/a>\u00a0in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1981, Lin, then an unknown\u00a021-year-old architecture student, won the design competition for\u00a0the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which remains one of the most-visited public artworks in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Lin in most famous for her urban memorials, but her practice also spans grand organic installations, like 2021\u2019s haunting\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ghost Forest<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/em>49 Atlantic white cedars, from a dying grove in the Pine Barrens in New Jersey, planted in Madison Square Park. They were a shock amid the veritable green of the lawn, an omen of the looming climate apocalypse. After the installation closed,\u00a0the trees were harvested by a Bronx wood shop, where teenagers shaped them into boats.<\/p>\n<p>Around 20 years ago, Lin was commissioned to create six public \u201cearthworks\u201d\u00a0along\u00a0the Columbia River system by the Confluence Project, a Pacific Northwest nonprofit dedicated to educating the public about the historic importance of the region\u2019s waterways to local Indigenous communities. In 2008, working in collaboration with the architect Johnpaul Jones,\u00a0she completed the\u00a0Vancouver Land Bridge an verdant pedestrian bridge soaring over Highway 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goal at times was to disappear, not to add an artwork, but my art was to erase prior damage and to restore a connection back to the environment, allowing the visitor a visceral and intimate connection back to the land itself,\u201d Lin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0of the project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maya Lin, whose elegant blend of art, architecture, and landscape has won worldwide acclaim, has been tapped to create an installation for the campus of the\u00a0Obama Presidential Center. The work will be placed in the Water Garden, named for former president Barack Obama\u2019s mother, Ann Dunham. Titled\u00a0Seeing Through the Universe, the sculpture will \u201cfeature an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,7,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artist","8":"category-auction","9":"category-events","10":"category-gallery","11":"category-latest-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Maya Lin, Star Architect Who Created D.C. 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