Maya Lin: Bodies of Water
Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY
Fall 2009

Photography: Kerry Ryan McFate, courtesy Pace Gallery

The opening of Storm King Wavefield was accompanied by a special exhibition, Maya Lin: Bodies of Water, comprised of work that relates to my interest in the shape and flow of water. The large-scale Flow is made of thousands of individual 2x4’s that have been assembled to evoke a simple rolling-wave formation. Flow was created entirely from FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified lumber, while Silver Chesapeake, made of reclaimed silver looks towards the Chesapeake Bay for inspiration, one of the most degraded estuary systems in the United States. Dew Point is an installation of cast-glass “drops” that replicate the shape of drops of water at the instant they have splattered on the floor. And finally Pin River— Hudson, composed of thousands of straight pins that have been set into a gallery wall to create the illusion of a shadow image of the Hudson River.