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7/1/2004

Janet Echelman

Florence Lynch Gallery, New York

Projects in the Public Realm
January 3 - February 5, 2004

Florence Lynch Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by Janet Echelman. Entitled Projects in the Public Realm, the exhibition is on view from January 3 through February 5, 2004. An opening reception will be held at the gallery on Thursday, January 8, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

The show features work from three important public sculpture projects completed or conceived in the past year starting with a one-tenth scale prototype of Echelman's $1.25 million commission currently under construction on the Atlantic coastline in Porto, Portugal. Rising 14 stories to visually connect a city park and a popular beach, Echelman's work suspends multiple 150-foot-diameter sculptural nets over a 3-lane highway roundabout. The colored nets blow in the ocean wind, changing form in conversation with the environment and with the site's cultural history. Color, pattern, and material references range from local fishing net forms to the red striped pattern painted on local smokestacks.

Created in the pioneering collaboration of Echelman with aeronautical engineer Peter Heppel, the work represents unprecedented scale in aeroelastic permanent sculpture. Heppel is known for his design of America's Cup racing sails, aerospace components for NASA, and Scotland's 400-ft rotating wind-aligned Millennium Tower.

Continuing the presentation is a video projection of Echelman's wind choreography as captured in the film "Air is a Fluid", created by Echelman and husband David Feldman, of her sculptural net installation atop the Bass Museum of Art at the inaugural Art Basel Miami Beach in 2002.

Completing the show is the public unveiling of the architectural/sculptural design, produced collaboratively by Echelman with Studio Gang Architects (Chicago), Peter Heppel Engineering (Paris) and Domingo Gonzalez Assoc. Lighting Design (NYC) that has just been selected as one of four finalists in the competition for the September 11 Memorial in Hoboken, New Jersey. This design proposes a new memorial island to be built in the Hudson adjacent to Hoboken's busy Pier "A" Park. Easily visible from Manhattan, the soaring design proposes a Participatory Surface and boardwalk that leads from the pier down into the river to reveal an island with a Well of Clear River Water protected by a tall Breathing Structure. The island creates a contemplative space that brings visitors closer to the cycles of nature including tides, waves, wind, sun and moon cycles.

Additional visual and text material is available on the commissions. For further information please contact Florence Lynch or Charles Haywood at 924-3290.

In the picture a work by Janet Echelman Florence Lynch Gallery, 531-539 West 25th Street, Ground Floor, New York 10001, USA Tel. 924-3290 Fax 967-9264

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