Janet Echelman

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Janet Echelman is an American artist specializing in public art installations and sculpture. According to Sculpture Magazine vol. 2, #6 (July/August 2004), her recent work in Portugal charts "a bold new direction for sculpture" and is "one of the truly significant public artworks in recent years."

[edit] Major works

Hoboken September 11th Memorial

She Changes

Expanding Club

Phoenix Civic Space, project due to open 2008. Phoenix, Arizona. USD $2.4 million budget. See Newsweek article in links.

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.

Expanding Club, 2007. Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, New York. Hand-knotted nylon net, steel fittings. Courtesy of the Florence Lynch Gallery.

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] 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.