Janet Echelman

Artist

About

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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Pulse Compilation

Skies Painted with Unnumbered Sparks Compilation

Bending Arc Compilation

Timeline

2005

2009+ 1

2010

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016+ 1

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021+ 5

SITES

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1.26 Hong Kong

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

Installation

1.8 London

Janet Echelman, ARUP, Autodesk, ArtAV

Installation

1.78 Helsinki

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

Installation

Dream Catcher

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

Installation

1.26 Munich

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

Installation

1.78 Vienna

Janet Echelman, Melissa Henry, MuseumsQuartier Wien, ARUP

Installation

1.8 Perth

Janet Echelman, Melissa Henry, ARUP, City of Perth

Installation

The Space Between Us

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

Installation

Skies Painted with Unnumbered Sparks

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

Installation

1.26 Jeddah

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

Installation

1.78 Boras

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

Installation

1.26 Amsterdam

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

Installation

Where We Met

Janet Echelman, ARUP, Autodesk, Focus Lighting

Installation

Pulse

Janet Echelman, ARUP, Keiran Timberlake Architects, OLIN

Fountain

Her Secret is Patience

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

Installation

She Changes

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

Installation

As If It Were Already Here

Janet Echelman, Greenway Conservancy’s Public Art Program

Installation

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

Installation

Bending Arc

Janet Echelman, ARUP, W Architecture & Landscape Architecture

Installation

1.26 Denver

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

Installation

ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS

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

PLAYLISTS CURATED by Janet Echelman

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Podcasts

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She Changes

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Pulse

Fountain

Her Secret is Patience

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1.26 Denver

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