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Janet Echelman

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Sculptor

Janet Echelman is a renowned sculptor known for her large-scale, dynamic public art installations. Her works often utilize rope and fiber materials to create stunning visual and spatial experiences. Born on February 19, 1966, Echelman has over 30 years of experience in the art field.

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“My monumental netted sculptural environments move through time, animated by an ever-changing 'wind choreography,' making invisible air currents suddenly visible to the human eye. I make living, breathing pieces that respond to the forces of nature - wind, light, water.”

Humans Light Eye Moving Force Water Environment Pieces Air Movement Wind Currents Invisible Breathing Visible Animated Rough Times Choreography Forces Of Nature Human Eyes

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“My sculpture thrives in the context of the city, interacting with people in the course of their daily lives.”

People Courses Cities Thrive Daily Life Sculpture Interacting

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“When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.”

Ifs Ideas Materials Limits Resources Ideals Compromise Developing Manifestation Permission Ideal Man

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“The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.”

Art Powerful Art Is Hardest Most Powerful Nonverbal

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“The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it.”

Want Needs Humans Enough Space Cities Color Nurturing Saturated

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“It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.”

Thinking Giving Art Including Stranger Dialogue Shared Experiences

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“You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble.”

Ifs Wonderful Something New Stumble Upon

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“I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real.”

Years Art Ideas Real Cities Building Models Drawing Scales Weather Crafts Experts Engagement Interaction Urban Recognizing Sculpture Maintaining Through The Years Collaborating

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“I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.”

People Way Feels Believe Art Beautiful I Believe Standing Aim Profound Sculpture Something Beautiful

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“Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore.”

Giving Artist Technology Possibility Development Give Me Realms Intrigued Palette

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“As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.”

Children Kids My Own Building Bed Clothes Structure Inspired Including Architecture Enjoyed Temporary Sheets Be Inspired Forts Bed Sheets

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“In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.”

Thinking Art Country Sometimes Sports Cities Player Team Involved Outcomes Interaction Sports Team Public Art

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“My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.”

Whole Careers Emotional Intellectual Response Distinction Artwork

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“In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.”

Has Beens Lasts Cities Four Century Rivers City Life Canals Amsterdam

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“I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong.”

Should Believe I Believe Space Obvious

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“When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.”

Ideas Young Criticism Vulnerable

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“I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.”

Art Facts School College Seven Architecture Engineering Rejected Sculpture Art School

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“I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.”

Wells Two Pay Studios Landscape Designer Plus Architect Engineers Lighting Assistants Consultants

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Born: February 19, 1966
Known for: Sculptor
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