SEEING THE FOREST FOR THE TREES

摘要

150 Works of Art, on view at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle earlier this year, began from a series of refusals: no theme, no hierarchies, no wall labels. The museum's chief curator, Elizabeth Brown, engaged the local design firm Lead Pencil Studio to collaborate on the project from an early stage. Partners Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo work in what they call "the emerging field created from the interdisciplinary overlap of architecture and site-specific art." Their practice has embraced everything from houses to sculpture, but their current prominence in Seattle is owed mostly to that overlap: filling a Seattle art space with 19,000 vertically suspended lines of nylon monofilament to create 2004's Linear Plenum; and building a structure in scaffolding to make a one-to-one scale twin for a brooding mansion in the upcoming Maryhill Double. While developing Minus Space, a site-specific installation for the Henry, Han and Mihalyo were asked by Brown to also work on an exhibition exploiting the museum's wide-ranging, though little seen, collection.