Yesterday we had a couple hours in between shows so we decided to make our way over to the Chelsea Galleries. The Galleries have been closed most of the summer but have reopened just in time for Fashion Week. Our favorite exhibit of the day was Maya Lin: Three Ways of Looking at the Earth at Pace Wildenstein on West 22nd street. The exhibit features three large-scale environmental installations all created out of a single material. The pieces are part of a greater body of work, Systematic Landscapes, which all "seek to enlighten viewers by challenging their psychological and physical relationship with the natural world." My favorite piece is 2 x 4 Landscape, which is made up of over 50,000 vertical two-by-four pieces of wood from fir and hemlock trees. There is an astonishing level of detail and I like how she was able to transform these ridged pieces of wood into something quite fluid like a giant ocean swell.
