Janet Echelman
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Janet Echelman, American artist specializing in public art installations and sculpture. According to Sculpture Magazine her recent work in Portugal charts "a bold new direction for sculpture" and is "one of the truly significant public artworks in recent years."
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[edit] Major Works
Hoboken September 11th Memorial, project due to open 2007. Located on the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey. Selected by the Hoboken 9/11 Memorial Fund Design Competition.
She Changes, 2005. A waterfront sculpture for the government of Oporto, Portugal. Height 50 x150 x 150 meters, Made of Tenara® PTFE architectural fiber, approx. 2 tons. USD $1.6 million budget.
Target Swooping #5, 2004. Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Road Side Shrine II, 2002. New York City's West Side Highway, Affixed to piers 90 and 88, New York City, New York. Vinyl-coated polyethlyene mesh, variable dimensions. Courtesy of The Florence Lynch Gallery.
Target Swooping Down, 2001. Feria de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. ARCO Exposition. 135' diameter x 45' tall. Courtesy of The Florence Lynch Gallery. Hand-knotted nylon affixed to the rim of the central atrium.
[edit] Education
1983-87 Harvard University, Cambridge. B.A., Magna Cum Laude with highest honors.
1985-86 International Honors Program ( in Europe, Asia and Australia).
1987-88 Rotary Foundation Post-graduate Scholar, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
1991 School of Visual Arts, New York.
1992-94 Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York. M.F.A.
1992-96 The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Lesley College. M.A.
[edit] Private Life
Echelman was first inspired to use nets in her work from her experience in India while on Fulbright Fellowship. This resulted in her first public sculpture, Bellbottoms, in Mahaballipuram, India.
1988-1993 Janet Echelman lived and worked in Bali, Indonesia.
Presently, she resides in Brookline, MA with her husband David Feldman and two children.
[edit] Sources/Links
Janet Echelman: [1]
Florence Lynch Gallery: [2]
Museum of Arts & Design, "Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting", January 25 - June 17, 2007: [3]
Sculpture- A publication of the International Sculpture Center, July/August 2005, Vol.2 No.6: [4]
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