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Mary Miss Show Features Photo-Collages

Like all of her work, the selected pieces deal with the thematic

Meaghan O'Neill -- Interior Design, 8/3/2006 12:00:00 AM

Spanning the fields of architecture, landscape design, sculpture, and installation art, a new exhibition of photo-collages by sculptor and public artist Mary Miss challenges conventional ways of seeing the inhabited landscape. For Miss, the photo-drawings illustrate an overriding theme that exists in all of her work: the conjunction between the built and the natural landscape. "Mary Miss: Landscape in Photo/Drawings," which will be shown at Senior & Shopmaker Gallery in New York September 20–November 22, features collages in which several photographic views of a single structure or site are spliced together to form an altered whole. An opening reception will be held September 20, 6—8 p.m.

Throughout her domestic travels, Miss has always photographed unusual sites and temporary structures such as canals, mine-heads, fences, and towers. Many of these pictures inform a significant part of her public sculpture projects, which range from altered topographic landscapes to architectural constructions, and occupy sites as diverse as New York's waterfront and subway, a wetland in Iowa, and a forest in Finland. Her abstract photo-drawings convey the experience of a particular space rather than strict documentation.

Miss's other current projects include a permanent tree-topped walkway for the Indianapolis Museum of Art, a layered pond for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, and a master plan for a 1,000-acre public park in Irvine, California, in collaboration with landscape architect Ken Smith and architect Enrique Norten.