Courtesy of Pace Gallery.Ī range of interdisciplinary public programs designed to engage visitors around the exhibition’s themes will include: Maya Lin, Marble Chesapeake & Delaware Bay, 2022. Maya Lin: A Study of Water will be accompanied by an exhibition publication, which will include a commissioned poem by Luisa Igloria, the Poet Laureate of Virginia, responding to the works in the exhibition. Contributions from Virginia MOCA visitors will be collected and included in the ongoing project. What Is Missing?, an interactive multimedia installation that invites visitors to share memories and ecological perspectives, was established by Lin to raise awareness of the ongoing sixth mass extinction. The exhibition’s connections to the Chesapeake Bay region and Virginia Beach are expanded upon through the museum’s robust community engagement initiatives: an audio tour of Maya Lin: A Study of Water featuring voices of scientists, environmentalists and local students an open call for a community exhibition and student sculpture garden of works inspired by Lin and educational collaborations with a variety of organizations such as the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, WHRO Public Media and Virginia Beach City Public Schools. “This is an exciting opportunity to bring Maya Lin’s ecologically-minded artwork to the region.” “ Maya Lin: A Study of Water 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,” said guest curator Melissa Messina. Created with artistic intuition and scientific research, Lin’s works are compelling in both their beauty and their many meanings.
The works evoke water’s many forms and patterns, including rivers and their rise, oceans and their tides, and icebergs and the detriment of their melting poses. Maya Lin: A Study of Water continues the artist’s environmentally focused practice and brings together a selection of her interpretations of water with brand new, site-responsive works inspired by the Chesapeake Bay. “Sitting at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, we feel incredibly fortunate to present beautiful and profound work by Maya Lin, a creative trailblazer, that helps illuminate the urgency of water issues in our community, across the country and around the world,” said Virginia MOCA Director and CEO Gary Ryan. 4, 2022 at Virginia MOCA, the organizer and sole venue. The exhibition will be on view from April 21 through Sept. Lin began her internationally renowned career with her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (Virginia MOCA) announces the exhibition Maya Lin: A Study of Water, featuring new and selected works from American artist, designer and activist Maya Lin.
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