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Mary Miss

Born 1944, New York · Public art, sculpture and environmental installation

Mary Miss (born 1944, New York) is an American artist whose public works, such as South Cove (1988) in Battery Park City, cross between sculpture, landscape architecture and urban design. In 2009 she started City as Living Laboratory, a framework for making sustainability tangible to the public.

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About the artist

Mary Miss was born in New York City on 27 May 1944. She took a BA at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1966 and an MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1968, and was a founding member of the journal Heresies. Rosalind Krauss opened her 1979 essay Sculpture in the Expanded Field with a description of Miss's Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys (Wikipedia).

Her permanent public projects include South Cove (1988) in Battery Park City, made with the architect Stanton Eckstut and the landscape designer Susan Child; Greenwood Pond: Double Site (1989–96) at the Des Moines Art Center; and Framing Union Square (1998), red frame elements placed through the 14th Street–Union Square subway station (Wikipedia). Trained as a sculptor, she makes work that crosses landscape architecture, architecture, urban design and graphic communication, and in 2009 she began City as Living Laboratory (Mary Miss).

She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a resident artist at the American Academy in Rome, and received the 2023 Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been shown at the Guggenheim Museum in Contemplating the Void (2010), the Aldrich Museum (2022) and the Nasher (2023) (Mary Miss).

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Mary Miss
  2. Mary Miss: Biography

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