These works anchor a selection of additional sculptural representations of water by Lin in various media. Silver Chesapeake (2009), Lin’s recycled silver wall sculpture, will be presented to further manifest the artist’s formal and conceptual considerations of the region’s waterscapes. The exhibition centers on a new site-responsive sculpture Marble Chesapeake & Delaware Bay (2022), a breathtaking configuration of glass marbles that maps the Chesapeake’s waterways onto the walls and floor of the gallery. Created with artistic intuition and scientific research, Lin’s works are compelling in both their beauty and their myriad meanings. In this way Maya Lin connects history - both ancient and recent - to the urgency of today’s climate crisis.ĭrawn from Lin’s multidecade career, the works in Maya Lin: A Study of Water evoke water’s many forms and patterns, including rivers and their rise, oceans and their tides, and icebergs and the detriment their melting poses. This mapping, which visualizes water’s natural and manmade contour, rise, ebb, flow, thaw and evaporation, also elicits a sense of time and balance. Maya Lin: A Study of Water embodies Lin’s experiential use of scale, poetic use of common materials and process of mapping as a conceptual framework - what she describes as “revealing things we may not be thinking about.” “Our region and the entire world are at a critical environmental inflection point, which Maya Lin’s articulate work helps us to process and understand.” “Located at the crossroads of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and the Virginia Beach community are ideally situated to undertake this thematic project with Maya Lin,” Virginia MOCA Director and CEO Gary Ryan said. Organized by Virginia MOCA and guest curated by Melissa Messina, Maya Lin: A Study of Water will only be on view in Virginia Beach. The exhibition not only invites discovery, but also encourages contemplation about the many ways in which we need water and manage its powerful bearings on our environment. This spring and summer Maya Lin at Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (Virginia MOCA) presents several new works by the artist responding to the Chesapeake Bay watershed, complemented by other water-related works by her, in Maya Lin: A Study of Water. The legendary American artist, designer and activist often represents water as both pathway and boundary, calling forth the implications of its necessity, accessibility, scarcity and abundance. Water has always been an important subject of Maya Lin’s environmentally focused artistic practice.
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