Janet Echelman
earlier this year design 360° magazine spoke to american artist janet echelman. here she explains her work process in detail and how the different countries she has lived in have shaped her approach.
It’s a metaphor for a way of being in the world, in that you need to be able to go in, share what you want to share, and leave without a trace. It's like going camping. It must have a light footprint.
Wind, Water, and Light Janet Echelman Janet Echelman explores the cutting edge of sculpture, public art, and urban transformation. With the design team at Studio Echelman, she focuses on the development and creation of large-scale artworks that integrate form and function in a diverse...
Beanbags and chairs are strewn across the carpet, inviting viewers to lie down and soak in the hypnotic experience from below.
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Sculptor Janet Echelman rarely has time to give talks - but she accepted SDA's invitation. She delivered an extraordinary keynote that brought in•ter•face conference audience to their feet with thunderous applause in appreciation of her powerful imagination. Read the unabridged version of her interview in SDA Journal Spring 2013 issue here....
Description For its fourth exhibition, 1.26 was installed in Singapore above Marina Bay for the biennial iLight Festival. Singapore marks the project’s fourth continental premiere. It was commissioned in 2010 for the Biennial of the Americas in Denver, CO. It traveled to Sydney, Australia in 2011, suspended over the busiest intersection on the continent, then …
Artist Janet Echelman installed a voluminous sculpture floating above the streets of London.
This is a live recording of Janet Echelman's presentation at the 2022 SAQA Virtual Conference, "Taking Imagination Seriously".
Inspired by the local materials and culture of Mahabalipuram, an Indian fishing village famous for sculpture, American Artist Janet Echelman stumbled...
Description Janet Echelman collaborated with choreographer Katarzyna Kozielska of the Stuttgart Ballet for the world premiere of the performance “A. Memory,” May 23, 2014. The delicately hanging sculpture pulsated and swayed in response to the expressive motions of the dancers below. “A. Memory” opened with a dancer connected to the voluminous form, almost as …
Janet Echelman has completed her most recent aerial net sculpture. Its form & composition were inspired by Greensboro’s history as a railroad & textile hub.
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Description A monumental, floating form that pulses with the changing wind and weather, Janet Echelman’s 1.26 sculpture invites you to pause, and contemplate a physical manifestation of interconnectedness of opposites – soft with hard, earth with sky, things we control with the forces beyond us. The concept of the artwork stems from scientific data …
Description Janet Echelman was selected to design an iconic sculpture to anchor the new LeBauer City Park in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. The monumental sculpture is composed of 35 miles of technical fibers crafted into 242,800 knots which gently pulse in breeze, creating an ephemeral presence in the sky above the new city park. The …
anémona Matosinhos by Janet Echelman
In this special Artist Profile story, Akiko Ashley talks to TED speaker and acclaimed artist Janet Echelman about her remarkable work, creating engaging visual and interactive large scale urban and architectural artistic installations throughout the world
Janet Echelman's latest aerial sculpture has been suspended 365 feet above Boston's Rose Kennedy Greenway. On view th...
Studio Echelman has used more than 100 miles of super-strength rope to create a sculpture that floats high above a Boston park
