In collaboration with the fishermen, Echelman created a series of netted sculptures, her "Bellbottoms" series. While watching fishermen bundling their nets, Echelman was inspired to take a new approach, creating volumetric form without heavy, solid materials. Her artistic supplies were lost in transit to Mahabalipuram, so she began working with local bronze-casters but the material was heavy and too expensive for her budget. In 1997, Echelman won a Fulbright Senior Lectureship and traveled to India with the intention of giving painting exhibitions. She later returned to Harvard University as an artist-in-residence and was given an old squash court to use as her studio. Career Įchelman traveled to Hong Kong on a Rotary International Fellowship to study Chinese brush painting and calligraphy. She graduated from Harvard University in 1987. Her father is an endocrinologist, and her mother a jewelry designer. Janet Echelman was born in Tampa, Florida in 1966. She serves on the Harvard Board of Overseers. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Echelman was named an Architectural Digest 2012 Innovator for "changing the very essence of urban spaces." Echelman's artwork has been reviewed in The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, and was selected for Architectural Digest's "Innovators". Works include: 1.26, which has been exhibited on five continents Her Secret Is Patience in downtown Phoenix Water Sky Garden which premiered for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics She Changes on the waterfront in Porto, Portugal and Every Beating Second at San Francisco International Airport. Her sculptures have been displayed as public art, often as site-specific installations. The number in the title refers to a measurement of time, as the earth’s day was shortened by 1.26 microseconds.Janet Echelman (born March 19, 1966) is an American sculptor and fiber artist. Inside Echelman’s studio, the physical form of Earthtime 1.26 was digitally modelled with inspiration from a scientific data set describing a single geological occurrence in one part of the world (a 2010 earthquake in Chile) that caused ripple effects around the globe, which sped up the earth’s daily rotation. These include architects, designers, and model-makers in the studio, as well as an external team of aeronautical and structural engineers, computer scientists, lighting designers, landscape architects, and a fabrication team. To create the sculptural form, Echelman works with teams both inside and outside her studio. Each time a single knot moves in the wind, the location of every other knot in the sculpture’s surface is changed in an ever unfolding dance of human-made creation with the forces of nature beyond our control. These sculptures serve as symbols of interconnectedness – composed of countless intertwined fibers. The Earthtime sculpture series seeks to heighten our awareness about the way we are all interconnected with one another and our planet. I invite viewers to pause beneath my sculpture for a moment to contemplate our interconnectedness with each other and our planet, and to become aware of our own sensory experience.” – Janet Echelmanīetween August 11th and October 3rd, 2021, Janet Echeman’s Earthtime 1.26 sculpture will be exhibited at Munich’s Odeonsplatz, presented by Mercedes-Benz. My artwork reflects an interconnectedness of opposites – flexibility with strength, earth with sky, things we can control with the forces beyond us. “I’m excited to install Earthtime 1.26 Munich in the historic Odeonsplatz, where past and present intertwine to create a dynamic urban now.
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