WIREDMaking Light of Tragedy
January/February 2016
Artist Janet Echelman created otherworldly aerial sculptures. Composed of hand-splices and knotted lightweight fibres, they’re colored by projected light. “They’re about the complexity of interaction that we cannot predict.”
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PUBLIC ART REVIEWDiscovering the Unknown
by Daniel Tucker, Spring/Summer 2015
Janet Echelman is an artist who defies categorization. Her work is at the intersection of fine art, ancient craft, cutting-edge technology, architecture, and public art. Starting out, she was rejected by every art school she applied to. Today she has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Fellowship, and a Harvard University Loeb Fellowship.
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THE BOSTON GLOBESculpture Fills Greenway Skies
by Malcolm Gay, May, 4, 2015
The sculpture is a study in contrasts, not only between its own strength and flexibility but also between the rigidity of the built environment and what Echelman deems it’s “monumental softness”.
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ARTSCOPEKnitting Together the Urban Fabric
by Donna Dodson, May/June 2015
World-renowned artist Janet Echelman is creating an aerial installation for Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway to be unveiled on May 11, 2015. Her iconic works of art have been exhibited internationally, but never before on the East Coast. Her current Greenway project promises to place Boston on the map as a destination for world-class public art.
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SMITHSONIANHigh Wire
by Max Kutner, November, 2014
Echelman, a painter, turned to sculpture in 1997 when she traveled to India and her paints were lost in transit; she began making shapes with local fishermen’s nets.
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NEW YORK TIMESGlow Art Festival Illuminates a Beach
by Ian Lovett, Sept 29, 2013
It took an entire week for Janet Echelman – along with a team that included a composer, landscape architects, lighting technicians and a bulldozer crew – to construct her art installation in the sand along the beach…
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SCULPTURESculpting Urban Airspace
by Regina Frank, September 2011
If your eye becomes entangled by the beauty of a huge fishing net cast into the vast blue of the sky, it has probably been caught in a work by Janet Echelman. Originally a painter, Echelman has been working with nets since a residency in India. Left without materials when her shipment of supplies went astray, she turned this lucky mishap into inspiration as she watched local fishermen at work.
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METROPOLISMotion and Change
by Lara Kristin Lentini, June 2015
“I like limitations and parameters,” artist Janet Echelman says. “I find them inspiring.” A veteran of public sculpture projects, she is accustomed to such challenges as less-than-ideal sites, inflexible budgets, and unrealistic expectations.
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