Janet Echelman

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Artist Janet Echelman began her career as a painter. She received a Fulbright to teach in India and shipped her paints there, but unfortunately, they never arrived. With nothing to work with and bronze casting prohibitively expensive, she looked at the local fishermen and wondered whether it was possible to use similar nets as a new approach to sculpture: a way to create volumetric form without heavy, solid materials. She began using nets to reshape urban airspace with monumental, fluidly moving sculpture that responds to environmental forces including wind, water, and sunlight. 'She Changes' in Porto, Portugal was the beginning of the series of large swooping funnel nets that include 'Her Secret is Patience' in Phoenix and 'Water Sky Garden' for the Vancouver Olympics. She is currently expanding her media and working on a large piece for Philadelphia's Dilworth Plaza which will feature curtains of colored mist coordinated with the below grade public transit.

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SITES
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1.26 Hong Kong
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1.26 Hong Kong

Janet Echelman, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, The Peninsula Hotels, Isolde Brielmaier, Bettina Prentice, Rogier van der Heide

Kowloon, Hong Kong S.A.R.

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1.8 London
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1.8 London

Janet Echelman, ARUP, Autodesk, ArtAV

London, England, Kingdom, London W1B 3AG

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1.78 Helsinki
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1.78 Helsinki

Janet Echelman, Melissa Henry, Helsinki Art Museum, Sun Effects, ARUP

Finland

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Dream Catcher
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Dream Catcher

Janet Echelman, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Autodesk, Francis Krahe & Associates

West Hollywood, California

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1.26 Munich
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1.26 Munich

Janet Echelman, Melissa Henry, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Mercedes-Benz AG, TLD Lighting

München, Bayern, Germany, 1 Odeonspl.

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1.78 Vienna
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1.78 Vienna

Janet Echelman, Melissa Henry, MuseumsQuartier Wien, ARUP

Wien, Austria, 1 Museumsplatz

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1.8 Perth
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1.8 Perth

Janet Echelman, Melissa Henry, ARUP, City of Perth

Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 2 Barrack St

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The Space Between Us
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The Space Between Us

Janet Echelman, OLIN, Kinetic Lighting, ARUP, Daniel Rome, Zach Alterman

Santa Monica, California

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Skies Painted with Unnumbered Sparks
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Skies Painted with Unnumbered Sparks

Janet Echelman, Google Data Arts Team, ARUP, Glotman Simpson, Autodesk, Graphics eMotion

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 900 Canada Pl

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1.26 Jeddah
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1.26 Jeddah

Janet Echelman, Melissa Henry, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Swizz Beatz, Good Intentions, Umbereen Inayet, Guy Pavelo

Jeddah, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia, Ash Shati, Jeddah Saudi Arabia

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1.78 Boras
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1.78 Boras

Janet Echelman, Melissa Henry, Borås City, Borås Art Museum, ARUP

Centrum, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, 503 30 Borås

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1.26 Amsterdam
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1.26 Amsterdam

Janet Echelman, David Jansen, Peter Heppel Associates, Rogier van der Heide, Floriaan Ganzevoort, Philips

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands The, 3 Amstel

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Where We Met
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Where We Met

Janet Echelman, ARUP, Autodesk, Focus Lighting

Greensboro, North Carolina

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Pulse
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Pulse

Janet Echelman, ARUP, Keiran Timberlake Architects, OLIN

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Fountain

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Her Secret is Patience
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Her Secret is Patience

Janet Echelman, City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, Speranza Architecture, CAID Industries, Buro Happold

Phoenix, Arizona

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She Changes
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She Changes

Janet Echelman, Government of Portugal, Ministry of the Environment, AFA Consult, Eduardo Souto Moura

Portugal

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As If It Were Already Here
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As If It Were Already Here

Janet Echelman, Greenway Conservancy’s Public Art Program

Boston, Massachusetts

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Water Sky Garden
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Water Sky Garden

Janet Echelman, Richmond, BC Public Art Program, Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden Architects + Urbanistes, PFS Studio, Buro Happold, Peter Heppel Associates, Fast + Epp, Speranza Architecture

Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, River Road Hollybridge Way

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Bending Arc
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Bending Arc

Janet Echelman, ARUP, W Architecture & Landscape Architecture

St. Petersburg, Florida

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1.26 Denver
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1.26 Denver

Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, Janet Echelman, Peter Heppel Associates, Richter Scale Productions

Denver, Colorado

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ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS
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Janet Echelman standing underneath her "1.26 Hong Kong" installation at The Peninsula Hotel

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Podcasts
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She Changes
She Changes

Portugal

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Pulse
Pulse

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Fountain

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Her Secret is Patience
Her Secret is Patience

Phoenix, Arizona

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1.26 Denver
1.26 Denver

Denver, Colorado

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